19 results match your criteria: "University of Liège - Gembloux AgroBio Tech[Affiliation]"

Synergetic response on herbal and probiotic applications: a review.

Fish Physiol Biochem

June 2024

Department of Animal and Aquatic Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200, Thailand.

Herbs and their by-products are important traditional medicines and food supplements; they provide numerous beneficial effects for animals. Consequently, probiotics are living cell organisms, nontoxic, and friendly microbes. Probiotics have numerous beneficial activities such as inhibition of pathogens, enhancement of the immune system, growth, disease resistance, improving water quality, reducing toxic effects, synthesis of vitamins, prevention of cancer, reduction of irritable bowel syndrome, and more positive responses in animals.

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A global dataset of biochar application effects on crop yield, soil properties, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Sci Data

January 2024

State Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Arid and Semi-arid Arable Land in Northern China, Key Laboratory of Arable Land Quality Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.

Biochar application is widely studied to mitigate the threats of soil degradation to food security and climate change. However, there are big variations in the effects of biochar application on crops, soils, and the atmosphere during crop production. This study provides a global dataset of biochar application effects on crop yield, soil properties, and greenhouse emissions.

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Global urbanization has not only promoted social and economic development, but also contributed to seriously ecological challenges. As a type of sustainable landscape patterns, ecological security pattern is considered as an effective spatial pathway to simultaneously conserve ecological security and maintain social-economic development. However, the fragmentation issue of ecological sources of ecological security pattern has not been effectively addressed, although many case studies have been conducted to identify ecological security pattern.

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Green nanotechnology is an emerging field of science that focuses on the production of nanoparticles by living cells through biological pathways. This topic plays an extremely imperative responsibility in various fields, including pharmaceuticals, nuclear energy, fuel and energy, electronics, and bioengineering. Biological processes by green synthesis tools are more suitable to develop nanoparticles ranging from 1 to 100 nm compared to other related methods, owing to their safety, eco-friendliness, non-toxicity, and cost-effectiveness.

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Do plant traits help to design green walls for urban air pollution control? A short review of scientific evidences and knowledge gaps.

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int

November 2022

Biodiversity and Landscape Research Team, Terra Research Unit, Gembloux Agrobio-Tech, Liège University, Passage Des Déportés 2, B-5030, Gembloux, Belgium.

It is often claimed that green walls (GW) and living wall systems (LWS) have a positive effect on urban air pollution problems if their plants composition is optimal (design of the LWS). An in-depth review of the knowledge on plants traits maximizing GW effects on air pollution shows that these might be hasty conclusions: there are still some important knowledge gaps. Robust conclusions can only be drawn for particulate matter (PM): the other pollutants are not analyzed by a sufficient number of studies.

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Influence of temperature during incubation on the mRNA levels of temperature sensitive ion channels in the brain of broiler chicken embryos.

Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol

June 2022

Department of Biosystems, Divison Animal and Human Health engineering, NAMES, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 30, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium. Electronic address:

Thermosensation is crucial for the survival of any organism. In animals, changes in brain temperature are detected via sensory neurons, their cell bodies are located in the trigeminal ganglia. Transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels are the largest temperature sensing family.

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Ecotrons: Powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science.

Glob Chang Biol

April 2021

Ecotron Européen de Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Montferrier sur Lez, France.

Article Synopsis
  • Ecosystems face threats from human-induced global changes, making it essential to study their functioning through experiments and modelling in controlled environments, known as ecotrons.
  • This paper highlights 13 advanced ecotrons available to researchers worldwide, which simulate various natural conditions for studying ecosystem processes while measuring greenhouse gas exchanges and other factors.
  • The research in these ecotrons covers a range of topics, primarily focusing on global changes, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem physiology, with a call for improved methodologies and stronger connections to modelling for future studies.
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The therapeutic abilities of and fruits used as spices are attributed to their bioactive molecules, including polyphenols. Sometimes used together and heated, they can undergo denaturation. The aim of the current study is to optimize the extraction of phenolic compounds and antioxidant potential of a roasted mix of and (95/5: w/w) fruits using RSM in a home food consumption context.

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. and . are potential candidates as indoor culture for the extraction of their high value-added metabolites for pharmaceutical applications.

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Comprehensive comparison of Yarrowia lipolytica and Pichia pastoris for production of Candida antarctica lipase B.

Sci Rep

February 2020

Microbial Processes and Interactions, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, University of Liège - Gembloux AgroBio Tech, Avenue de la Faculté, 2. B-, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium.

The large-scale production of recombinant proteins (rProt) is becoming increasingly economically important. Among the different hosts used for rProt production, yeasts are gaining popularity. The so-called non-conventional yeasts, such as the methylotrophic Pichia pastoris and the dimorphic Yarrowia lipolytica, are popular choices due to their favorable characteristics and well-established expression systems.

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Organic Wastes as Feedstocks for Non-Conventional Yeast-Based Bioprocesses.

Microorganisms

July 2019

Microbial Processes and Interactions, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, University of Liège - Gembloux AgroBio Tech, Av. de la Faculté, 2B. B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium.

Non-conventional yeasts are efficient cell factories for the synthesis of value-added compounds such as recombinant proteins, intracellular metabolites, and/or metabolic by-products. Most bioprocess, however, are still designed to use pure, ideal sugars, especially glucose. In the quest for the development of more sustainable processes amid concerns over the future availability of resources for the ever-growing global population, the utilization of organic wastes or industrial by-products as feedstocks to support cell growth is a crucial approach.

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Pichia pastoris is a very popular yeast for recombinant protein production, mainly due to the strong, methanol-inducible P promoter. Methanol induction however poses several drawbacks. One approach to improve processes is to use MutS strains with reduced methanol catabolic ability.

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Bioreactor-Scale Strategies for the Production of Recombinant Protein in the Yeast .

Microorganisms

January 2019

TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Microbial Processes and Interactions, University of Liège⁻Gembloux AgroBio Tech, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium.

Recombinant protein production represents a multibillion-dollar market. Therefore, it constitutes an important research field both in academia and industry. The use of yeast as a cell factory presents several advantages such as ease of genetic manipulation, growth at high cell density, and the possibility of post-translational modifications.

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Integrating metabolic modeling and population heterogeneity analysis into optimizing recombinant protein production by Komagataella (Pichia) pastoris.

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol

January 2018

Microbial Processes and Interactions, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, University of Liège - Gembloux AgroBio Tech, Avenue de la Faculté, 2B, B-5030, Gembloux, Belgium.

The methylotrophic yeast Komagataella (Pichia) pastoris has become one of the most utilized cell factories for the production of recombinant proteins over the last three decades. This success story is linked to its specific physiological traits, i.e.

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We report here on EYK1, encoding erythrulose kinase, as an efficient catabolic selectable marker for genome editing in Y. lipolytica. Compared to auxotrophic markers, EYK1 increases the growth rate of transformants and allows improved efficiency of transformation.

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pH and Not Cell Morphology Modulate pLIP2 Induction in the Dimorphic Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica.

Curr Microbiol

March 2017

Microbial Processes and Interactions, TERRA Research Centre, University of Liège - Gembloux AgroBio Tech, Passage des Déportés, 2, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium.

The dimorphic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica has become an emerging cell factory for recombinant proteins production. Expression vectors involving LIP2 promoter (pLIP2) have been developed and used successfully. However, the relationship between dimorphic transition (i.

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The role of spatial scale in ecological pattern formation such as the geographical distribution of species has been a major theme in research for decades. Much progress has been made on identifying spatial scales of habitat influence on species distribution. Generally, the effect of a predictor variable on a response is evaluated over multiple, discrete spatial scales to identify an optimal scale of influence.

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Background: In recent years, the non-conventional model yeast species Yarrowia lipolytica has received much attention because it is a useful cell factory for producing recombinant proteins. In this species, expression vectors involving LIP2 and POX2 promoters have been developed and used successfully for protein production at yields similar to or even higher than those of other cell factories, such as Pichia pastoris. However, production processes involving these promoters can be difficult to manage, especially if carried out at large scales in fed-batch bioreactors, because they require hydrophobic inducers, such as oleic acid or methyl oleate.

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A topic of major interest in socio-ecology is the comparison of chimpanzees and bonobos' grouping patterns. Numerous studies have highlighted the impact of social and environmental factors on the different evolution in group cohesion seen in these sister species. We are still lacking, however, key information about bonobo social traits across their habitat range, in order to make accurate inter-species comparisons.

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