Publications by authors named "Hamza Armghan Noushahi"
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- Wolfiporia cocos is a fungus valued for its health benefits in Traditional Chinese Medicine and shows promise for pharmaceutical and industrial use.
- The study focused on optimizing liquid fermentation techniques to enhance mycelial biomass yield and the concentration of pachymic acid, discovering significant production increases under improved conditions.
- Researchers also explored the genetic factors influencing this production, finding that key genes like squalene monooxygenase and glycoside hydrolases 16 were significantly expressed during the optimized fermentation process.
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- Wolfiporia cocos is a special mushroom from China that makes a helpful substance called pachymic acid (PA) used in medicine.
- Scientists studied its genes to understand how PA is made, finding key genes connected to its production.
- They discovered that changing the activity of certain genes affects how much PA the mushroom produces, which could help improve its medicinal benefits.
In recent years, extreme environmental cues such as abiotic stresses, including frequent droughts with irregular precipitation, salinity, metal contamination, and temperature fluctuations, have been escalating the damage to plants' optimal productivity worldwide. Therefore, yield maintenance under extreme events needs improvement in multiple mechanisms that can minimize the influence of abiotic stresses. Polyamines (PAs) are pivotally necessary for a defensive purpose under adverse abiotic conditions, but their molecular interplay in this remains speculative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Colletotrichum gloeosporioides ES026, isolated as an endophytic fungal strain, was found to produce the important medicinal compound HuperzineA (HupA). In a genetic context, ES026 showed potential in elucidating the biosynthetic pathway of HupA.
Methods And Results: The ES026 strain was sequenced using de-novo Illumina sequencing methods in this study.
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- Triterpenoids are special natural substances made from a compound called squalene, and they can be divided into two main types based on their chemical structure.
- These substances are important in areas like medicine, food, and industry, but there are still challenges in producing them due to limited knowledge and techniques.
- The text discusses the different forms of triterpenoids, their potential uses, and ways to improve how they are made using new scientific methods.
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- Dry tubers of a traditional Chinese medicine plant, commonly known as "banxia," contain valuable compounds used in pharmaceuticals.
- The cultivation method, whether grown alone or intercropped, significantly affects the quantity and quality of these compounds, with intercropping yielding better results.
- A study using next-generation sequencing revealed that intercropped plants had a larger overall microbial population in their rhizosphere compared to sole-cropped plants, although the total number of distinct microbial genera remained similar between both cultivation methods.
Flavonoids are key secondary metabolites that are biologically active and perform diverse functions in plants such as stress defense against abiotic and biotic stress. In addition to its importance, no comprehensive information has been available about the secondary metabolic response of tree, especially the genes that encode key enzymes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis under drought stress. In this study, the quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis revealed that the expression of flavonoid biosynthesis genes (, , , , , , and ) gradually increased in the leaves of hybrid poplar (.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs the population ages globally, there seem to be more people with Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, there is currently no specific treatment for the disease. At present, Huperzine A (HupA) is one of the best drugs used for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and has been used in clinical trials for several years in China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCopper (Cu), with many documented cases of Cu toxicity in agriculture lands, is becoming an increasingly common issue in and elsewhere in China. However, fibrous crop such as jute is being used as phytoremediation candidate in Cu-contaminated soils due to its huge biomass. A pot experiment was conducted using four different varieties (HT, C-3, GC, and SH) of jute grown in highly Cu-contaminated soil (2221 mg kg), collected from Hubei Province, China.
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