Publications by authors named "Maria del Carmen Ramos-Sanchez"
Article Synopsis
- Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a significant disease affecting cereal crops, linked to the contamination of food and feed with harmful trichothecenes.
- The study explored the effectiveness of stevioside, a compound from candyleaf, both alone and combined with polyphenols from milk thistle seeds, against FHB, showing better results with the combined treatment.
- The combined stevioside-polyphenol solution inhibited fungal growth, prevented mycotoxin contamination, and did not negatively impact seed germination or lead to increased root rot incidence, suggesting it could be an eco-friendly solution for cereal crop protection.
Background: A retrospective analysis was carried out in all specimens from subjects with chronic hepatitis C sent for testing to our laboratory in Hospital Universitario Río Hortega (Valladolid, Spain) over the period 1999-2009. The reason for this study was to examine the suggestion of other authors on the spread of genotype 4 strains. The objective was to describe the distribution of VHC genotypes in our geographical area and compare it with other state-wide reports.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis work illustrates the effectiveness of composting and vermicomposting in degrading fuel-in-water emulsions from oil spills (chapapote), and the isolation of potentially useful microorganisms for its biodegradation. Firstly, an alternative to the biodegradation of asphaltens from the Prestige oil spill (still present in some chapapote rafts in the Cantabrian coast) by means of the application of composting techniques to a microbial partnership acclimated to fuel-oil is offered. Our aim is that, after a relatively short period of time, the microorganisms can obtain its source of carbon and energy from asphaltens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGoal, Scope And Background: In this paper, we attempt to elucidate the composition and origin of the orange patina on the surfaces of the West-Porch of Salisbury Cathedral by comparison to other known patinas: (i) the orange-brown patina on the marble surfaces of the Acropolis in Athens and the Arch of Titus in Rome whose analyses have shown very high amounts of phosphates, and generally amino acids from animal-skin glue or other protein binders; (ii) the phosphated patinas which also contain oxalates, found in 1996 on Catalonian calcareous sandstones and in the calcareous dolomites of the Monastery of Silos, Spain, whose origin is either the application of calcium caseinate, or egg yolk and animal glue; and (iii) the patinas with only oxalates found in some of Verona's monuments (St. Zeno) and Spanish sites as in the Monastery of Guadalupe and Cuenca cathedral, formed either by the mineralization of algal filaments or by biological reactions yielding oxalate from yolk egg (added to stone as part of preservative empirical treatments).
Methods: In the winter of 2003, the West-Porch of Salisbury Cathedral received conservation works, but the old patina was not entirely removed.