Publications by authors named "Chengshuai Xu"

Article Synopsis
  • Recent algal blooms threaten aquatic ecosystems, making eco-friendly algae-inhibiting methods, such as using allelopathic substances, valuable for water restoration.
  • This study focused on extracting flavonoids from Zanthoxylum bungeanum leaves and examining their effects on Microcystis aeruginosa algae.
  • Optimal extraction conditions were found, and results indicated that these leaf extracts not only have good antioxidant activity but also disrupt photosystem II activity in algae, providing promising insights for controlling algal blooms and developing new algae-inhibiting agents.
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Water eutrophication has emerged as a pressing concern for massive algal blooms, and these harmful blooms can potentially generate harmful toxins, which can detrimentally impact the aquatic environment and human health. Consequently, it is imperative to identify a safe and efficient approach to combat algal blooms to safeguard the ecological safety of water. This study aimed to investigate the procedure for extracting total flavonoids from Z.

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Most chemicals are manufactured by traditional chemical processes but at the expense of toxic catalyst use, high energy consumption, and waste generation. Biotransformation is a green, sustainable, and cost-effective process. As cyanobacteria can use light as the energy source to power the synthesis of NADPH and ATP, using cyanobacteria as the chassis organisms to design and develop light-driven biotransformation platforms for chemical synthesis has been gaining attention, since it can provide a theoretical and practical basis for the sustainable and green production of chemicals.

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