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    Potential Role of Silicon in Plants Against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses

    In climate change scenarios, biotic and abiotic stresses are among the serious environmental strains that limit agricultural productivity worldwide. Silicon (Si) compounds are now getting much attention in agr...

    Syed Riaz Ahmed, Zunaira Anwar, Umar Shahbaz, Milan Skalicky, Aqsa Ijaz in Silicon (2023)

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    Chitosan: a multipurpose polymer in food industry

    Chitin is one of Earth's most abundant biopolymers, but its solubility limits its uses and applications. The deacetylation of chitin leads to chitosan. Chitin and chitosan are the most abundant biopolymers wit...

    Umar Shahbaz, Samra Basharat, Urooj Javed, Asma Bibi, **ao Bin Yu in Polymer Bulletin (2023)

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    Biotechnological Approaches to Enhance Algae Biofuel Production

    Algae are aquatic species that may reproduce quickly and have over 3000 different breeds, making them more abrasive than terrestrial plants. They may be able to convert CO2 from the air into oxygen and remove it ...

    Umar Shahbaz, Sidra Zubair, Amna Younas in Technological Advancement in Algal Biofuel… (2023)

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    Advances in microbial metabolic engineering for the production of butanol isomers (isobutanol and 1-butanol) from a various biomass

    Bio-butanol, composed of four carbon hydrocarbons, is a biofuel produced from biomass feedstock by microbial activities. Butanol is used in making pharmaceutical, cosmetics, plastic, textiles, and fuel additiv...

    Asif Hussain, Umar Shahbaz, Salman Khan, Samra Basharat, Khalil Ahmad in BioEnergy Research (2022)

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    Enzymatic production of N-acetylneuraminic acid: advances and perspectives

    N-Acetyl-d-neuraminic acid (NeuAc), a well-known and well-studied sialic acid, is found in cell surface glycolipids and glycoproteins, where it performs a variety of biological functions. The use of NeuAc as a nu...

    Muhammad Iftikhar Hussain, **aolong Zhang in Systems Microbiology and Biomanufacturing (2022)

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    Cloning, isolation, and characterization of novel chitinase-producing bacterial strain UM01 (Myxococcus fulvus)

    Chitin is an important biopolymer next to cellulose, extracted in the present study. The exoskeleton of marine bycatch brachyuran crabs, namely Calappa lophos, Dromia dehaani, Dorippe facchino and also from st...

    Umar Shahbaz, **aobin Yu in Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (2020)