Polysaccharides obtained from bacteria, fungi, and microalgae can display a wide range of
valuable physicochemical characteristics, which have driven the interest toward research of …

This perspective paper proposes that endogenous apoplastic fructans in fructan
accumulating plants, released after stress-mediated cellular leakage, or increased by …

Dietary supplementation is an effective strategy for boosting the innate immune response in
fishes. It involves the use of functional ingredients that bear the potential for mitigating the …

Levan is an industrially important, functional biopolymer with considerable applications in
the food and pharmaceutical fields owing to its safety and biocompatibility. Here, levan-type …

Levan is an enzymatically synthesized fructose polymer with widely reported structural
heterogeneity depending on the producing levansucrase, the reaction conditions employed …

Considering the significant advances in nanostructured systems in various biomedical
applications and the escalating need for levan-based nanoparticles as delivery systems, this …

Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) are microorganisms widely distributed in nature. Although this
group is involved in the spoilage of some foods, AAB are of great industrial interest, and their …

Levan is a fructan type polysaccharide that has long been considered as an industrially
important biopolymer however its limited availability is mainly due to the bottlenecks …

During raw sugarcane processing, a significant portion of lost sucrose is attributable to
microbial degradation. Sucrose consumption by many bacteria is also linked to the …

Scope: Fructans are a group of dietary fibers which are known to have many beneficial
effects including immune-modulating effects. A family of fructans are β-(2, 6)-linked levan …