This study investigates a novel approach for enhancing methylene blue (MB) removal from water using a composite of endophytic mate and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). For the first time, a unique combination of simplex-lattice design and decision tree learning algorithm was employed to optimize MB removal. This innovative approach effectively identified the optimal composite ratio of hyphal mate (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe synthesis and characterization of novel nanocomposites with unique properties have garnered significant interest. Ag@CeO nanocomposite and its pullulan counterparts were prepared using a green approach involving rosemary extract. Characterization techniques, including Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, UV-visible spectroscopy, zeta potential, Dynamic Light Scattering, High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy, Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, and X-ray Diffraction, confirmed the formation of Ag@CeO nanoparticles (NPs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study explores the potential of the endophytic fungus Aureobasidium pullulans AKW for melanin production and its anticancer activity.
Method: We report a significant achievement: AKW synthesized 4.89 g/l of melanin in a simple fermentation medium devoid of tyrosine, a precursor typically required for melanin biosynthesis.
In this comprehensive investigation, we successfully isolated and characterized 40 distinct plant-associated halotolerant bacteria strains obtained from three halophytic plant species: Tamarix nilotica, Suaeda pruinosa, and Arthrocnemum macrostachyum. From this diverse pool of isolates, we meticulously selected five exceptional plant-associated halotolerant bacteria strains through a judiciously designed seed biopriming experiment and then identified molecularly. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens DW6 was isolated from A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConsumer demand for plant-based alternatives drives innovation in nondairy beverages. This study explores the development of a novel sesame milk with enhanced functionality using an artificial neural network (ANN) and milk permeate integration. An ANN model effectively optimized water-based sesame milk (WSM) extraction, maximizing total solids (T.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Biol Macromol
June 2024
This study presents a novel and efficient approach for pullulan production using artificial neural networks (ANNs) to optimize semi-solid-state fermentation (S-SSF) on faba bean biomass (FBB). This method achieved a record-breaking pullulan yield of 36.81 mg/g within 10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to increasing concerns about environmental impact and toxicity, developing green and sustainable methods for nanoparticle synthesis is attracting significant interest. This work reports the successful green synthesis of silver (Ag), silver-titanium dioxide (Ag@TiO), and silver-selenium dioxide (Ag@SeO) nanoparticles (NPs) using L. extract.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study bio-synthesized Ag@SeO bmNPs successfully, using turmeric ethanol extract, and characterized them using various techniques. The FT-IR analysis reveals the involvement of these plant-derived compounds, especially phenolics, in the reduction process by acting as electron donors and stabilizing/capping agents. Zeta potential analysis showed a slight negative surface charge for the stability of Ag@SeO NPs, where TEM revealed spherical nanoparticles with an average size of 20 nm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFL. is a globally significant economic herb with medicinal and aromatic properties. While coriander leaf blight disease was previously confined to India and the USA, this study presents new evidence of its outbreak in Africa and the Middle East caused by .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiodiesel is a sustainable, and renewable alternative to fossil fuels that can be produced from various biological sources with the aid of lipases. This study developed a simple and novel fungal system for lipase biosynthesis to be used for catalyzing the oily residuals into biodiesel, employing the artificial neural network (ANN), and semi-solid-state fermentation (SSSF). was selected among agro-industrial oily residuals as a substrate for lipase biosynthesis by MH47297.
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September 2023
Melanin as a natural polymer is found in all living organisms, and plays an important role in protecting the body from harmful UV rays from the sun. The efficiency of fungal biomass () and its extracellular melanin as Cr(VI) biosorbents was comparatively considered. The efficiency of Cr(VI) biosorption by the two sorbents used was augmented up to 240 min.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effect of three independent variables (i.e., tyrosine, sucrose, and incubation time) on melanin production by Aureobasidium pullulans AKW was unraveled by two distinctive approaches: response surface methodology (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe utilization of beneficial endophytic microorganisms presents a promising and innovative strategy for attaining environmental sustainability and fostering development. The majority of microbial bioagents are unsuitable for preparation in a suitable granular formula, and few are prepared in complicated formulas. In this work, was simply prepared in a marketable granular formula to manage and improve common bean growth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPullulan is a biodegradable, renewable, and environmentally friendly hydrogel biopolymer, with potential uses in food, medicine, and cosmetics. New endophytic (accession number; OP924554) was used for the biosynthesis of pullulan. Innovatively, the fermentation process was optimized using both Taguchi's approach and the decision tree learning algorithm for the determination of important variables for pullulan biosynthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn comparison to physicochemical and chemical methods, microbial dye biosorption is regarded as an eco-effective and economically viable alternative and is a widely applied method due to its high efficiency and compatibility with the environment. Therefore, the idea of this study is to clarify to what extent the viable cells and the dry biomass of Pseudomonas alcaliphila NEWG-2 can improve the biosorption of methylene blue (MB) from a synthetic wastewater sample. The array of Taguchi paradigm has been conducted to ascertain five variables affecting the biosorption of MB by broth forms of P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe beneficial microorganisms represent a new and hopeful solution for a sustainable environment and development. In this investigation, ZNW, isolated from seeds, was domiciliated within the pea plant for improving growth, disease management, and enhancement of productivity. NZW was isolated from deformed pea seeds, representing the first record of the pathogen caused by pea damping-off.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobial-based strategy in nanotechnology offers economic, eco-friendly, and biosafety advantages over traditional chemical and physical protocols. The current study describes a novel biosynthesis protocol for chitosan nanoparticles (CNPs), employing a pioneer Streptomyces sp. strain NEAE-83, which exhibited a significant potential for CNPs biosynthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present investigation has been designed by Taguchi and hybrid artificial neural network (ANN) paradigms to improve and optimize the binary sorption of Cobalt(II) and methylene blue (MB) from an aqueous solution, depending on modifying physicochemical conditions to generate an appropriate constitution for a highly efficient biosorption by the alga; Sargassum latifolium. Concerning Taguchi's design, the predicted values of the two responses were comparable to actual ones. The biosorption of Cobalt(II) ions was more efficient than MB, the supreme biosorption of Cobalt(II) was verified in run L (93.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis one of the globally significant plant pathogens that infect a wide host range of economically important plants. A study was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that an avirulent strain of can act as a biocontrol mediator for managing potato bacterial wilt. Virulent was isolated and identified (GenBank accession number; OP180100).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRoot rot is one of the most significant soil and seed-borne fungal diseases, limiting the cultivation of fenugreek plants. Endophytic bacteria and their natural bioproducts have emerged as growth promoters and disease suppressors in the current era. Despite limited research, seeds are a good funder of endophytic microbiomes, which are transmitted from them to other seedling parts, thereby providing a shield against biotic and abiotic anxiety and promoting the growth at early germination and later stages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe definitive screening design (DSD) and artificial neural network (ANN) were conducted for modeling the biosorption of Co(II) by NEWG-2. Factors such as peptone, incubation time, pH, glycerol, glucose, KHPO, and initial cobalt had a significant effect on the biosorption process. MgSO was the only insignificant factor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMelanin is a universal natural dark polymeric pigment, arising in microorganisms, animals, and plants. There is a couple of pieces of literature on melanin, each focusing on a different issue, the goal of the present review is to focus on microbial melanin. It has numerous benefits with very few drawbacks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobiodiversity is usually correlated with environmental conditions. This investigation is a case study to cover the lack of knowledge on the correlation of biochemical, physiological, and molecular attributes with the distribution of seed-borne pathogenic fungi of maize under the environmental conditions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to help forecast any destructive epidemics. Forty-one fungal species belonging to 24 genera were detected using standard moist blotter (SMB), deep freezing blotter (DFB), and agar plate (AP) techniques.
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