Aims: To prepare commercial-grade wine from cashew apples using less expensive household materials and vinegar production by natural spontaneous fermentation. Study Design: Cashew wine was prepared by fermenting cashew apple juice with Saccharomyces cerevisae. Various parameters...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23366
Aim: This study investigated the effect of silver and selenium nanoparticles on Alternaria solani, the pathogenic fungus causing early blight disease of potato. Place and Duration of Study: Drug Radiation Research Department, National Centre for Radiation Research & Technolog...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24155
Shunmugiah V. Ramesh, Bhagat S. Chouhan, Girish K. Gupta, Rajkumar Ramteke, Suresh Chand & Syed M. Husain·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Aim: Coat protein (CP) genes encoded by Legume yellow mosaic viruses (LYMVs) were analysed to study molecular diversity and to devise effective PCR based assay to distinguish major Begomovirus species (Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus and Mungbean yellow mosaic virus) infecting...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24362
Aims: This research studied the dynamic changes of main pigments, glucose, GA3 (Gibberellic acid) and ABA (Abscisic acid) contents in different parts of tomato fruit during the ripening stage, and provided references for the further research for the coloring mechanism of tomato f...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23865
Aim: To determine ochratoxin A production by cocoa bean seeds infested Aspergillus species in Ondo State, Nigeria. Place and Duration of Study: Cocoa bean seeds were randomly collected from six local government areas namely Idanre, Akure, Owo, Akure, Oba-Akoko, and Ile-Oluji know...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24139
Aims: In-vitro produced microrhizomes in ginger are favored as planting material over other conventional planting materials as they are free from soil born pathogens. This study was conducted to develop an efficient protocol for production of healthy microrhizomes including the i...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23903
Aims: This is an innovative cell-based research project focused on the hair follicle dermal papillae (DP) as a source of key-element cells for regeneration of hair growth. DP is major dermal compartment which has a role in hair formation at embryogenesis and is able to differenti...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23393
The mangrove ecosystem of India is an extensively unexplored source for actinomycetes with the potential to produce secondary metabolites of biological importance. In this study, twenty two actinomycetes were isolated from different soil samples collected from the Bhitarkanika ma...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/24102
R. Fané, D. Traoré, A. Kassogué, F. Samaké, A. H. Dicko, A. Hamadoun, F. H. Valicente & A. H. Babana·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Aims: To determine the genetic diversity of Bacillus thuringiensis strains isolated from soils of different locality in Mali, and select strains with cry1F, cry1B and cry1C genes to control caterpillars and strains with cry2 gene against African rice gall midge. Study Design: Str...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/20432
An efficient protocol was described for the rapid in vitro multiplication of medicinal plant Boucerosia umbellata via enhanced axillary bud proliferation from nodal explants collected from young shoots of three-month-old field grown plants. Effects of cytokinins 6-benzylaminopuri...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23676
In the present study we investigated the role of salicylic acid (SA) in regulating Mn-induced oxidative stress in bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) leaves. Exposure of plants to 100 µM Mn inhibited biomass production and intensively increased Mn accumulation in leaves. Concomitantly, Mn...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2015/15830
Syed Ajlal Akhtar, Fahad Ata Siddiqui, Abu Bakar Sheikh, Saqib Rashid, Zohaib Khurshid, Shariq Najeeb & Muhammad Sohail Zafar·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Aims: Chemo-mechanical preparation continues to be one of the most challenging steps in root canal treatment procedures. The aim of this study was to examine the frequency of procedural errors during root canal treatment performed by interns. Study Design: Cross sectional descrip...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23768
Aims: A total of five mutant strains of Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii ATCC 6633 designated as the MXB 1, MXB 2, MXB 3, MXB 4 and MXB 5 were developed using random mutagenesis of ethyl methane sulfonate (EMS) and acridine orange (AO) in our previous study. Based on our prese...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23057
Lekshmi S. Rajan, Aman Kamboj, Bikash R. Prusty, Tapan Palai, L. R. Ananthakrishna, Mohini Saini & Praveen K. Gupta·Biotechnology Journal International·2016
Aim: To produce bovine herpesvirus-1 (BoHV-1) vaccine strains in MDBK cells using an oscillating bioreactor, BelloCell. Place and Duration of Study: Division of Veterinary Biotechnology, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar-243122, India, between November 2013 and June...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/20401
Aim: Purification and characterization of pectin methylesterase produced by Aspergillus tubingensis in solid state fermentation. Study Design: Pectin methylesterase enzyme produced by A. tubingensis was extracted from the fermented solid medium and purified using chromatographic...
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Research Article10.9734/BBJ/2016/23632