Publications by authors named "Shang-Wen Tang"

Cytochimera potato plants, which mixed with diploid and tetraploid cells, could cause the highest and significantly increased biomass yield than the polyploid and diploid potato plants. Polyploidization is an important approach in crop breeding for agronomic trait improvement, especially for biomass production. Cytochimera contains two or more mixed cells with different levels of ploidy, which is considered a failure in whole genome duplication.

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Because of the negative side-effects of synthetic preservatives, the naturally-occurring polyphenols aroused intense interest of researchers. It has been suggested that chlorogenic acid (CA) and isochlorogenic acid A (iso-CAA) were good candidates to replace the synthetic preservatives. Moreover, the bactericidal activity of iso-CAA was stronger than CA, and the anti-bacterial activities of iso-CAA and CA were highly membrane-dependent.

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Potato is a major food crop with enormous biomass straw, but lignocellulose recalcitrance causes a costly bioethanol conversion. Here, we selected the cytochimera (Cyt) potato samples showing significantly-modified lignocellulose and much increased soluble sugars and starch by 2-4 folds in mature straws. Under two pretreatments (8 min liquid hot water; 5% CaO) at minimized conditions, the potato Cyt straw showed complete enzymatic saccharification.

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Previous studies suggested that naturally occurring EGCG primarily acted on the bacterial cell membrane then damaged the membrane and the gallate moiety in EGCG was very important to its anti-bacterial activity. However, the detailed mechanisms were still poorly understood. In this paper, EGCG and EGC were selected to study the great contribution of gallate moiety on the anti-bacterial activities of polyphenols.

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Improving biomass enzymatic saccharification is effective for crop straw utilization, whereas phytoremediation is efficient for trace metal elimination from polluted agricultural soil. Here, we found that the green proteins extracted from Amaranthus leaf tissue could act as active biosurfactant to remarkably enhance lignocellulose enzymatic saccharification for high bioethanol production examined in eight grassy and woody plants after mild chemical and green-like pretreatments were performed. Notably, this study estimated that total green proteins supply collected from one-hectare-land Amaranth plants could even lead to additional 6400-12,400 tons of bioethanol, being over 10-fold bioethanol yield higher than those of soybean seed proteins and chemical surfactant.

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Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of neurodegenerative disease and the formation of Aβ amyloid aggregates has been widely demonstrated to be the principal cause of Alzheimer's disease. Our previous study and other studies suggested that the gallate moiety played an obligatory role in the inhibition process of naturally occurring polyphenols on Aβ amyloid fibrils formation. However, the detailed mechanisms were still unknown.

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Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most hazardous trace metals, and rapeseed is a major oil crop over the world with considerable lignocellulose residues applicable for trace metal phytoremediation and cellulosic ethanol co-production. In this study, we examined that two distinct rapeseed cultivars could accumulate Cd at 72.48 and 43.

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Poly(lactide)-starch matrix, blended with multi-functionalized graphene oxide, was synthesized by solution casting in this study. To improve its interface compatibility, the graphene oxide (GO) was grafted with maleic anhydride and subsequently modified by dodecyl amine. The chemical structure and morphology of functionalized GO (f-GO) were determined by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

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