Publications by authors named "Fernanda Cristina Fraga"

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  • * After a 30-day pretreatment, the inner sheaths showed a seven-fold increase in total reducing sugars and a five-fold increase in glucose compared to untreated samples, while no improvement was seen in the treated peels.
  • * Scanning electron microscopy revealed that pretreated inner sheaths had modified structures with fiber detachment, cell wall collapse, and pore formation, but the peel fibers remained unchanged and more ordered.
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Alternatives to improve the stability and activity of enzymes have been rising in the last years due to the potential industrial application of these catalysts. However, the enzymes characteristics in terms of stability and catalytic efficiency can reduce, in some cases, due to the reaction conditions. Due to a lack in the literature concerning structural information related to the new commercial Eversa® Transform 2.

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