A review on food spoilage mechanisms, food borne diseases and commercial aspects of food preservation and processing

Food Chemistry Advances, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5, P. 100852 - 100852

Published: Nov. 26, 2024

Language: Английский

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Harnessing genetic engineering to drive economic bioproduct production in algae

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12

Published: Jan. 29, 2024

Our reliance on agriculture for sustenance, healthcare, and resources has been essential since the dawn of civilization. However, traditional agricultural practices are no longer adequate to meet demands a burgeoning population amidst climate-driven challenges. Microalgae emerge as beacon hope, offering sustainable renewable source food, animal feed, energy. Their rapid growth rates, adaptability non-arable land non-potable water, diverse bioproduct range, encompassing biofuels nutraceuticals, position them cornerstone future resource management. Furthermore, microalgae’s ability capture carbon aligns with environmental conservation goals. While microalgae offers significant benefits, obstacles in cost-effective biomass production persist, which curtails broader application. This review examines compared other host platforms, highlighting current innovative approaches aimed at overcoming existing barriers. These include range techniques, from gene editing, synthetic promoters, mutagenesis selective breeding metabolic engineering through transcription factors.

Language: Английский

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Exploring the link between soil health and crop productivity

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 289, P. 117703 - 117703

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Understanding the complex interactions of plants and soils in face global food security environmental degradation challenges is critical to future sustainable agriculture. This review discusses important link between soil health crop productivity by providing comprehensive assessment properties management methods. By examining physical, chemical, biological soil, it uncovers key limitations posed environment on growth. The highlights how texture, nutrient availability, moisture levels directly impact root growth, water uptake, use efficiencies, while also exploring diverse cropping systems enhance ecology biodiversity. utilizing state-of-the-art bioinformatics, we offer an in-depth exploration rhizosphere microbial communities, emphasizing functions phosphate-solubilizing nitrogen-fixing bacteria promoting vital cycles. potential using fertilizers increase resistance disease stress hold a major premise for sustainability In this regard, long-term impacts cultivation diversity, revealing intricate selection processes crops their partners shaping crop-soil-microbe interactions. terms management, practical strategies are proposed based testing, benefits organic farming conservation tillage health. Modern precision agricultural tools remote sensing technologies encouraged be refined effective management. At policy level, evaluate international guidelines aimed at fostering sustainability, suggesting new research pathways crop-soil dynamics offering approaches developing indicators challenges.

Language: Английский

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Fungal bioprocessing for circular bioeconomy: Exploring lignocellulosic waste valorization

Mycology&#58 An International Journal on Fungal Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 26

Published: March 18, 2024

The rising global demand for sustainable and eco-friendly practices has led to a burgeoning interest in circular bioeconomy, wherein waste materials are repurposed into valuable resources. Lignocellulosic waste, abundant agricultural residues forestry by-products, represents significant untapped resource. This article explores the potential of fungal-mediated processes valorisation lignocellulosic highlighting their role transforming these recalcitrant bio-based products. articles delve diverse enzymatic metabolic capabilities fungi, which enable them efficiently degrade metabolise materials. paper further highlights key fungal species mechanisms involved breakdown complex biomass, emphasising importance understanding intricate biochemical pathways optimising conversion processes. insights will significantly contribute advancing biotechnology bioeconomy applications, fostering paradigm shift towards more resource-efficient environmentally friendly approach management product manufacturing.

Language: Английский

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Algae and Cyanobacteria Fatty Acids and Bioactive Metabolites: Natural Antifungal Alternative Against Fusarium sp.

Microorganisms, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(2), P. 439 - 439

Published: Feb. 17, 2025

Fungal diseases caused by Fusarium spp. significantly threaten food security and sustainable agriculture. One of the traditional strategies for eradicating incidents is use chemical synthetic fungicides. The excessive these products generates environmental damage has negative effects on crop yield. It puts plants in stressful conditions, kills natural soil microbiome, makes phytopathogenic fungi resistant. Finally, it also causes health problems farmers. This drives search selection alternatives, such as bio-fungicides. Among products, algae cyanobacteria are promising sources antifungal bio-compounds. These organisms can synthesize different bioactive molecules, fatty acids, phenolic some volatile organic compounds with activity, which fungal cell membrane that surrounds hyphae spores, either solubilization or making them porous disrupted. Research this area still developing, but significant progress been made identification potential controlling important pathogen. Therefore, review focuses knowledge about mechanisms action acids from macroalgae, microalgae, principal biomolecules well benefits challenges applying metabolites against to achieve

Language: Английский

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Fungi for Sustainable Pharmaceutical Remediation: Enzymatic Innovations, Challenges, and Applications—A Review

Processes, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 13(4), P. 1034 - 1034

Published: March 31, 2025

The extensive use of pharmaceuticals in human and veterinary medicine has led to their persistent environmental release, posing ecological public health risks. Major sources include manufacturing effluents, excretion, aquaculture, improper disposal, contributing bioaccumulation ecotoxicity. Mycoremediation is the fungal-mediated biodegradation pharmaceuticals, offers a promising sustainable approach mitigate pharmaceutical pollution. Studies have reported that certain fungal species, including Trametes versicolor Pleurotus ostreatus, can degrade up 90% contaminants, such as diclofenac, carbamazepine, ibuprofen, within days weeks, depending on conditions. Fungi produce range extracellular enzymes, laccases peroxidases, alongside intracellular enzymes like cytochrome P450 monooxygenases, which catalyze transformation complex compounds. These play an essential role modifying, detoxifying, mineralizing xenobiotics, thereby reducing persistence toxicity. effectiveness biotransformation influenced by factors substrate specificity, enzyme stability, Optimal degradation typically occurs at pH 4.5–6.0 temperatures 20–30 °C. Recent advancements engineering, immobilization techniques, bioreactor design improved catalytic efficiency process feasibility. However, scaling fungal-based remediation systems for large-scale applications remains challenge. Addressing these limitations with synthetic biology, metabolic other biotechnological innovations could further enhance enzymatic pharmaceuticals. This review highlights innovations, applications, challenges mycoremediation, emphasizing potential fungi transformative solution waste management.

Language: Английский

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Genetic Engineering in Bacteria, Fungi, and Oomycetes, Taking Advantage of CRISPR

DNA, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(4), P. 427 - 454

Published: Nov. 14, 2024

Genetic engineering has revolutionized our ability to modify microorganisms for various applications in agriculture, medicine, and industry. This review examines recent advances genetic techniques bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, with a focus on CRISPR-Cas systems. In CRISPR-Cas9 enabled precise genome editing, enhancing antibiotic production metabolic engineering. For despite challenges associated their complex cell structures, CRISPR/Cas9 advanced the of enzymes secondary metabolites. significant plant pathogens, modified Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, CRISPR/Cas12a have contributed developing disease-resistant crops. provides comparative analysis efficiencies across these addresses ethical regulatory considerations. Future research directions include refining tools improve efficiency expand applicability non-model organisms. comprehensive overview highlights transformative potential microbiology its implications addressing global biotechnology.

Language: Английский

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Exploring the Diversity and Ecological Dynamics of Palm Leaf Spotting Fungi—A Case Study on Ornamental Palms in Portugal

Journal of Fungi, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(1), P. 43 - 43

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Palm trees (Arecaceae) are among the most popular ornamental plants worldwide. Despite extensive research on fungi associated with Arecaceae, diversity and ecological dynamics of affecting palms remain poorly studied, although they have significant impact palm health economic value. Furthermore, while fungal has traditionally focused tropical assemblages, in temperate climates offer a unique opportunity to explore non-native habitats. The present study conducted preliminary assessment ecology potential phytopathogenic foliar lesions various host species Portugal, combining morphological examination, PCR-based genomic fingerprinting, biodiversity data analysis. examination 134 sampled from 100 resulted collection 2064 leaf spotting (PLSF), representing diverse assemblage 320 molecular operational taxonomic units (MOTUs) across 97 genera. overall community composition revealed distinct dominated by Neosetophoma, Alternaria, Phoma, Cladosporium, profusion infrequent rare taxa consistent logseries distribution. Significantly positive co-occurrence (CO) patterns prevalent uncommon suggest synergistic interactions enhancing colonisation, persistence, pathogenicity. structures PLSF contrasted markedly fungi, especially prevalence pleosporalean coelomycetes Didymellaceae Phaeosphaeriaceae, including recently introduced or not previously documented genera Arecaceae. This novel suggests that climatic constraints shape structure communities, resulting distinctive assemblages. In addition, assemblages varied significantly species, temperate-native hosting more diverse, coelomycete-enriched communities. findings highlight as hyperdiverse microhabitats harbouring communities intricate complex interplay climatic, host, factors. With climate change altering environmental conditions, identification thriving inhabiting these becomes crucial for predicting shifts pathogen mitigating future disease outbreaks. Understanding is essential identifying threats developing effective management strategies sustainability plants.

Language: Английский

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Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning Mycovirus-Mediated Hypervirulence in Beauveria bassiana Infecting Tenebrio molitor

Journal of Fungi, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(1), P. 63 - 63

Published: Jan. 15, 2025

Mycoviral infection can either be asymptomatic or have marked effects on fungal hosts, influencing them positively negatively. To fully understand the of mycovirus host, transcriptomic profiling four Beauveria bassiana isolates, including EABb 92/11-Dm that harbors mycoviruses, was performed 48 h following Tenebrio molitor via topical application injection. Genes participate in carbohydrate assimilation and transportation, those essential for survival oxidative stress tolerance, calcium uptake, iron were found to overexpressed virus-infected isolate during mid-infection stage. Mycotoxin genes encoding bassianolide oosporein switched off all isolates. However, beauvericin, a mycotoxin capable inducing at molecular level, expressed indicating an important contribution virulence against T. molitor. These observations suggest detoxification immune-related (oxidative) defenses nutrient scouting, as mediated by these genes, occurs internal growth phase. Consequently, we observe symbiotic relationship between fungus does not afflict host; contrary, it enhances expression key leading mycovirus-mediated hypervirulence effect.

Language: Английский

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Characterization of bioaerosol exposures in wastewater treatment plant workers and serum levels of lung and inflammatory markers

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 487, P. 137254 - 137254

Published: Jan. 16, 2025

Language: Английский

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