Extending the benefits of PGPR to bioremediation of nitrile pollution in crop lands for enhancing crop productivity

A Vaishnav, R Kumar, HB Singh, BK Sarma - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Incessant release of nitrile group of compounds such as cyanides into agricultural land
through industrial effluents and excessive use of nitrile pesticides has resulted in increased …

Bacterial nitrilases and their regulation

VP Chhiba-Govindjee, CW van der Westhuyzen… - Applied microbiology …, 2019 - Springer
Commercially, nitrilases are valuable biocatalysts capable of converting a diverse range of
nitriles to carboxylic acids for the greener synthesis of chemicals and pharmaceuticals …

Efficacy of a plant‐produced virus‐like particle vaccine in chickens challenged with Influenza A H6N2 virus

T Smith, MM O'Kennedy, DBR Wandrag… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The efficacy, safety, speed, scalability and cost‐effectiveness of producing hemagglutinin‐
based virus‐like particle (VLP) vaccines in plants are well‐established for human influenza …

[HTML][HTML] Immunogenicity of adjuvanted plant-produced SARS-CoV-2 Beta spike VLP vaccine in New Zealand white rabbits

MM O'Kennedy, C Abolnik, T Smith, T Motlou… - Vaccine, 2023 - Elsevier
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic heightened the pace of vaccine
development with various vaccines being approved for human use in a span of 24 months …

The production of Newcastle disease virus-like particles in Nicotiana benthamiana as potential vaccines

T Smith, MM O'Kennedy, CS Ross, NS Lewis… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Newcastle disease (ND) is a highly contagious viral respiratory and neurological disease
that has a severe impact on poultry production worldwide. In the present study, an …

Plant-produced chimeric virus-like particles-a new generation vaccine against African horse sickness

DA Rutkowska, NB Mokoena, TL Tsekoa… - BMC veterinary …, 2019 - Springer
Background African horse sickness (AHS) is a severe arthropod-borne viral disease of
equids, with a mortality rate of up to 95% in susceptible naïve horses. Due to safety concerns …

The Application of Biocatalysis in the Preparation and Resolution of Morita‐Baylis‐Hillman Adducts and Their Derivatives

WP Juma, D Nyoni, D Brady, ML Bode - ChemBioChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Morita‐Baylis‐Hillman (MBH) reaction affords highly functionalised allylic
alcohols containing a new stereogenic centre. These MBH adducts are very versatile and …

Metagenomic insights into Heimdallarchaeia clades from the deep-sea cold seep and hydrothermal vent

R Liu, R Cai, M Wang, J Zhang, H Zhang, C Li… - Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Heimdallarchaeia is a class of the Asgardarchaeota, are the most probable candidates for
the archaeal protoeukaryote ancestor that have been identified to date. However, little is …

[HTML][HTML] A new concept of biocatalytic synthesis of acrylic monomers for obtaining water-soluble acrylic heteropolymers

KV Lavrov, AO Shemyakina, EG Grechishnikova… - Metabolic Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rhodococcus strains were designed as model biocatalysts (BCs) for the production of
acrylic acid and mixtures of acrylic monomers consisting of acrylamide, acrylic acid, and N …

Development of a Plant-Expressed Subunit Vaccine against Brucellosis

DA Rutkowska, LH Du Plessis, E Suleman… - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Brucellosis is an important bacterial disease of livestock and the most common zoonotic
disease. The current vaccines are effective but unsafe, as they result in animal abortions and …