A recent article studies chitin-binding proteins from a soilborne fungus (Verticillium nonalfalfae) that causes vascular wilt in plants. This fungus binds a particular protein (VnaChtBP) to chitin in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Cell-free extracts of UV-irradiated rice (Oryza sativa L.) leaves have a much greater capacity for the synthesis from geranylgeranyl ...

A German entrepreneur is seeking large shrimp harvesters worldwide that will install an innovative chitin production process. They need not have any knowledge of the chitin market; his company will ...

Scientists from the University of Havana have used lobster waste to generate chitin and chitosan, two key compounds in biomedicine and agriculture. They used these compounds to produce surgical ...

UP to the present time, no X-ray investigations have been carried out on the molecular structure of chitin as present in plant cell-walls. The cell-walls of the sporangiophores of the fungus ...

An insoluble complex carbohydrate, chitin makes up fungal walls and plays a significant role in the interaction between fungal pathogens and their plant hosts. Plant cells harbor immune receptors that ...