Chitosan is a biopolymer widely used in agriculture and in the food, medical and pharmaceutical industries. It is obtained by the deacetylation of chitin, extracted from the carapace of crustaceans or fungal mycelia. Despite ...

The production of rocket in Brazil, whether in conventional or organic cultivation uses seeds whose production comes from the conventional system, and there is no availability of seed produced in organic cultivation. The ...

Brazil is the largest sugarcane ethanol biofuel producer of the world. The productive process generates a considerable quantity of vinasse, its main wastewater. Therefore, the vinasse disposal is one of the major challenges ...

Brazil is the world's largest producer of sugarcane, and its main products are sugar, ethanol and biomass. With the high demand for its products, there was a need to plant it all year round. Thus sugarcane pineapple disease, ...

One of the main contaminating yeasts of ethanol production in Brazil is the species Dekkera bruxellensis. It is able to produce volatile phenolic compounds such as 4-vinylphenol and 4-ethylphenol from hydroxycinnamic acids ...

The fungus Alternaria alternata causes rot in several post-harvest crops, limiting commercialization and causing damage to the entire agricultural production chain. The use of biological control agents has been an alternative ...

Currently, the most of the citrus plants in the Brazil are on the rootstocks Rangpur lime and Swingle citrumelo, which may put at risk the Brazilian citriculture by the use of few genotypes. The use of other rootstocks ...

The Tahiti acid lime, popularly known in Brazil as Tahiti acid lime, is one of the most produced fruits in the state of São Paulo, with the northwest region as the main producer pole. However, there are many losses due to ...

Xylella fastidiosa (XF) is a bacterium capable of colonizing a large number of plants, but is mainly known to cause disease in economically important crops such as citrus, grapevines, coffee and more recently olive trees. ...

The genus Hippeastrum sp. is popularly known as amaryllis and its production is intended for the market of potted flowers. With a wide variety of hybrids, its spread is made from bulbs. Nevertheless, there are major ...