Publications by authors named "Preciosa Pires"
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- Maritime pine is crucial for the Iberian Peninsula's forests, mainly for wood production and emerging agroforestry by-products.
- The study focused on analyzing the bark from this pine, particularly its chemical and thermal properties using multiple analytical techniques.
- Findings indicate that the bark is rich in lignin and holocellulose, with low ash content and no heavy metals, and shows specific degradation characteristics at elevated temperatures.
The casein fraction of 13 Portuguese PDO cheeses were analysed using Urea-PAGE and reverse phase-high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) and then subjected to chemometric evaluation. The chemometric techniques of cluster analysis (CA) and principal component analysis (PCA) were used for the classification studies. Peptide mapping using Urea-PAGE followed by CA revealed two major clusters according to the similarity of the proteolytic profile of the cheeses.
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