One of the emerging environmental challenges today is hydrocarbon pollution arising from activities of petrochemical industries, natural sources of crude oil pollution and other anthropogenic activities. These petroleum products contain harmful, carcinogenic and mutagenic compoun...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43957
A large amount of crude oil is spilled annually into the terrestrial and aquatic environments in Nigeria. This tends to upset the natural equilibrium of the marine environment as a microbial habitat. Thus, there is a need to evaluate the effect of exposure to crude oil on bacteri...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/44567
Clarias albopunctatus juvenile (mean weight 85.40±2.67 g) was exposed to sublethal concentrations of Ronstar (0, 0.2, 0.6 and 1.2 mg/l) in a static renewal bioassay system for 15 days. The hematological parameters of the fish were determined every 5 days. When compared with the c...
Aims: The process parameters affecting enzyme production were optimized to ascertain the best optimal conditions for β-mannanase production by Penicillium italicum in solid state fermentation. Study Design: Four stages of experimental processes were designed for this study. The f...
Nayara Fátima Lazameth Diniz, Rossicléa Gonzaga da Silva, Luciana Aires Oliveira, Waldireny Rocha Caldas, Érica Simplício de Souza, Roberto Figlioulo, Juliana Gomes de Souza Oliveira & João Vicente Braga de Souza·Biotechnology Journal International·2018
The fruit of Astrocaryum aculeatum G. Mey. are consumed by population in the Brazil Northern resulting fruit peels. These peels are rich in lignocellulose and fat. The present study investigated peels from the Astrocaryum aculeatum G. Mey. as a substrate for lipases production by...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/44478
Ethanol is an alternative fuel derived from renewable biological resources. It's a good substitute for gasoline in spark ignition engines. In this study, the sugar cane bagasse was chemically pretreated with 1% NaOH at room temperature for 2 hours. Dilute acid H2SO4 and Aspergill...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43072
This study involved the molecular identification of Chlorella vulgaris microalgae obtained from Kaduna State University Fish Pond for biodiesel production potential. The DNA of Chlorella microalgae was extracted and subjected to PCR. The molecular weight of the PCR product obtain...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/44261
Aims: The cosmic production of biomass and bioactive compounds at pilot scale with minimum production costs is an important task to achieve feasible production process of corresponding secondary metabolites at a commercial level. Materials and Methods: The cell suspension culture...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43510
The production of α-L-rhamnosidase from Aspergillus ochraceous MTCC -1810, A. wentii MTCC- 1901, A. sydowii MTCC- 635, A. foetidus MTCC-508 under solid- state fermentation using easily available agro- industrial residues such as corn cob, rice bran, sugarcane bagasse, wheat bran...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43518
Aims: Bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a devastating disease resulting in tremendous losses of economic crops such as plants in the Solanaceae. Studies have shown that R. solanacearum is spreading from the lowlands to the highlands. This has seen increased nee...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43906
The objective of this work was to investigate the use of Palm Male Inflorescence (PMI) and river-sand as substrate for the acclimatization of plantain. Plantlets from three plantain cultivars (Batard, Ebanga and French Clair) were obtained after 16 weeks of tissue cultures and th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43879
Epipactis flava Seidenf. is classified into a rare type of orchid species, a rheophyte. The specific habitat for its life cycle requires a strong current and flooding time. In this study, differential gene expression between submerged and non-submerged conditions was studied usin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43501
Aim: Immobilised fungal phytase production from the novel strain Aspergillus foetidus MTTC 11682 and optimisation of cultural conditions for a better and continuous economic yield. Study Design: The study was designed based on the classical method of changing one independent vari...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/43071
Alshaimaa M. Elsayed, Usama M. Hegazy, Marwa G. A. Hegazy, Somia S. Abdel-Ghany, Walaa H. Salama, Ahmed M. H. Salem & Afaf S. Fahmy·Biotechnology Journal International·2018
Aims: The current study aims to elucidate the potential of Ficus carica latex peroxidase isoenzymes for decolorizing different synthetic dyes in comparison to the commercial horseradish peroxidase. Study Design: The decolorization of 20 dyes was investigated using the purified F....
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/42682
The present investigation carried out to study the character association and path analysis in twenty three recombinant inbred lines (RILs) of Sabita/Sambamahsuri derivatives and four check varieties of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Character association of the yield attributing traits...
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Research Article10.9734/BJI/2018/42690