The use of crude aqueous extracts of Cynara cardunculus flowers as coagulants in the
production of high-quality sheep and goat cheeses—as are the cases of several Portuguese …

Thistle flowers are traditional coagulants that have been used for many years in southern
Europe and northern Africa for cheese production. The flowers contain aspartic proteases …

Plant proteases have a number of applications in industrial processes including cheese
manufacturing. The flower of the cardoon plant (Cynara cardunculus L.) is traditionally used …

Cultivated cardoon (Cynara cardunculus var. altilis L.) is a promising candidate species for
the development of plant cell cultures suitable for large-scale biomass production and …

BACKGROUND The present study aimed to evaluate the potential of enzymes produced by
artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) flower cell suspension cultures elicited by melatonin (5 μm) …

Outbreaks of flaviviruses such as dengue (DV), yellow fever (YFV), Japanese encephalitis
(JEV), tick-borne encephalitis (TBEV) and West Nile (WNV) affect numerous countries …

The dengue virus envelope glycoprotein (DV-E) has been identified as a promising
candidate for the development of a subunit vaccine and to provide an antigen for diagnostic …

The aqueous extract of Cynara cardunculus flowers is traditionally used in cheese
production across Mediterranean countries. To meet the growing industrial demand for plant …

Em Portugal, como noutros países da bacia mediterrânica, a planta de cardo (Cynara
cardunculus L.) tem sido utilizada desde tempos antigos para diversas aplicações nas …

In Portugal, as in other countries of the Mediterranean basin, the thistle plant (Cynara
cardunculus L.) has been used since ancient times for several applications in the food and …