Enterococci are ubiquitous microorganisms, found as part of the normal intestinal microbiota of many animals. They can be present in food products, for example, the Portuguese dry fermented sausage chourico. Twenty enterococci were isolated from chourico in two processing units; after identification and typification by conventional-molecular methods, the isolates were screened for virulence factors and antibiot...
Nowadays, consumers are much more aware of nutritional composition and show especially interest in compounds with putative health benefits. Therefore, in the last few years, great attention has been devoted to the study of bioactive compounds in order to promote the consumption of traditional foods. The European project BaSeFood (Sustainable Exploitation of Bioactive Components Black Sea Area Traditional Foods...
Portugal needs urgency to increase the production of vegetable oils to be able to meet the mandatory 10% minimum target to be achieved by all EU member states for the proportion of biofuels in petrol and diesel consumption by 2020 (Directive 2009128/EC). Rapeseed oil is the main raw material used in Europe for the manufacture of biofuels. Portugal, however, does not produce rapeseed oil, in spite of some studie...
A colza é uma cultura oleaginosa cuja produção mundial está a aumentar, sobretudo pela importância do seu óleo para o fabrico de biocombustíveis. A colza é uma cultura de elevada produção de biomassa, tendo também valor forrageiro. Portugal é, praticamente, o único país europeu que não produz colza. Em Espanha produziram-se 28900 tono de semente em 2009. Contudo, estudos recentes têm mostrado que Portugal tem c...
Portugal needs urgently to increase the production of vegetable oils to be able to meet the mandatory 10% minimum target to be achieved by all member states for the share of biofuels in transport petrol and diesel consumption by 2020 (Directive 2009/28/EC). Rapeseed oils the main raw material used in Europe for the manufacture of biofuels. Portugal, however, does not produce rapeseed oil, in spite of some studi...
Cellulases and xylanases display a modular architecture that comprises a catalytic module linked to one or more non-catalytic carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs). CBMs have been classified into 52 different families, based on primary structure similarity. These non-catalytic modules mediate a prolonged and intimate contact of the enzyme with the target substrate eliciting efficient hydrolysis of the target poly...
1. Exogenous microbial -1,3-1,4-glucanases and hemicellulases contribute to improving the nutritive value of cereals rich in soluble non-starch polysaccharides for poultry. 2. In general, plant cell wall hydrolases display a modular structure comprising a catalytic module linked to one or more non-catalytic carbohydrate-binding modules (CBMs). Based on primary structure similarity, CBMs have been classified in...
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