Agricultural Biotechnology
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« previous | page 2 of 2 pagesProtease Inhibitors in Food Processing
Fernando L. García-Carreño, Haejung An and Norman F. Haard
Food technology is a marketdriven activity. The current generation of food technologists is looking for added value for the consumer, better profit margins, and more efficient utilization of resources. Enzymatic modification of food proteins has an important role in the food industry wit...
Protease/Inhibitor Interactions in Plant-Pest Systems: A Brief Overview
Dominique Michaud
The metabolism of any living cell depends on proteolysis. Proteases, which form a diverse group of enzymes capable of cleaving peptide bonds, are implicated in various essential processes ranging from the fine control of protein catabolism and the selective degradation of damaged protein...
Proteinase Inhibitors in Health and Disease Control—Medical and Industrial Aspects
Michiel F.J. Blankenvoorde, Henk S. Brand, Yvonne M.C. Henskens, Enno C.I. Veerman and Arie V. Nieuw Amerongen
Proteolytic enzymes are involved in numerous physiological processes in man including food digestion, tissue remodelling, host defense, blood coagulation and the activation of proenzymes and prohormones, and proteinase inhibitors (PIs) play an important physiological role in the regulati...
Recombinant Protease Inhibitors as Management Tools to Suppress Parasitic Nematodes
Thierry Vrain
Nematodes are the most successful multicellular form of animal life on earth. They colonize all trophic milieux with enough water to sustain their aquatic origin, the bottom of the seas, rivers and lakes, all continents, the deserts and the toundra included, usually in billions per acre....
Regulation of Plant Defense Against Herbivorous Pests
Hisashi Koiwa, Ray A. Bressan and Paul M. Hasegawa
It is estimated that potential crop yield is reduced by about 40% because of dam age or competition from arthropods, nematodes, diseases and weeds. Herbivorous pests such as insects, mites and nematodes are major contributors to yield loss either directly through consumption of plant bio...
Signal Transduction Techniques for Photosynthetic Proteins
P. Cosma, F. Longobardi and Angela Agostiano
The red-ox processes of biomacromolecules play an essential role in living systems: a series of electron-transfer reactions between donors and acceptors substances, immobilized in the membrane or dissolved in the aqueous phase, are involved in the conversion of solar energy in photosynthetic systems...
Successes in the Development and Application of Innovative Techniques
Eleftherios Touloupakis, Giovanni Basile, Emanuela Pace, Maria Teresa Giardi and Flavia di Costa
Up to now research centres and companies have developed their scientific disciplines and technologies within disparate sectors. Today, the trend is to combine these individual disci- plines to meet a common goal. Converging technology represents the application and integration of complementary di...
The Control of Plant Pathogens with Protease Inhibitors: A Realistic Approach?
Stephen Gleddie and Dominique Michaud
Plant pathogens contribute significantly to the yield losses suffered by producers and growers of numerous horticultural and field crops worldwide. Controlling plant pathogens by the use of pesticides and fungicides is a common procedure when the costs associated with the disease in ques...
The Problem of Herbicide Water Monitoring in Europe
Licia Guzzella and Fiorenzo Pozzoni
Among human activities the agriculture is one of the principal activities liable for the damages that can affect water resources. The increase in food production achieved last decades has been possible mainly because massive use of fertilizers and pesticides. Data on pesticide pollution are rather s...
The Response of Insects to Dietary Protease Inhibitors
Roxanne M. Broadway
One of the most important determinants for the successful use of recombinant proteinase inhibitors (PIs) against herbivorous insects is the selection of appropriate PIs. There are four classes of proteolytic enzymes responsible for the digestion of dietary proteins. These classes are bas...
Using Natural and Modified Protease Inhibitors
Dominique Michaud and Binh Nguyen-Quoc
Considering the high complexity of protease/inhibitor interactions in hostpest systems and the diversity of proteolytic enzymes used by pests and pathogens to hydrolyze dietary proteins or to cleave peptide bonds in more specific processes,15 the choice of an appropriate prote...
Using Protease Proregions as Regulators of Insect Digestive Proteinases
Mark A.J. Taylor
In order to maintain their rapid growth, the larvae of many insect pests need to feed nearly continuously and have very efficient digestive enzymes. Insect digestive proteinases are often targetted as potential candidates for pest control as they are easily accessible to ingested plant m...
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