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 ...

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 ...

Sugarcane is a renewable source of energy and has potential for expansion. The economic importance of sugarcane is due to its use as raw material, mainly for the sugar and ethanol production and, more recently for 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, ...

Alternaria brown spot (ABS) disease is caused by a fungus of Alternaria genus, that causes injury and fruit depreciation, leaves fall, drought of pointers and new shoots. The action of the fungus Alternaria alternata f. ...

The orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis are the most important in the segment of potted flowers in the national floriculture, being currently leader in volume of production and commercialization. However, obtaining genetic ...

One of the main contaminant yeast is Dekkera bruxellensis being known its ability to produce volatile phenolic compounds such as 4-vinylphenol (4-VP) and 4-ethylphenol (4-EP) from hydroxycinnamic acids through the activity ...

Sexual and vegetative propagation are the main methods of perpetuating plant species. Despite its importance in propagation, seeds of some species do not germinate even under favorable conditions, as is the case of seeds ...