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  1. Biodiesel has gained an increased popularity as a good alternative for fossil fuel because of its unusual qualities as a biodegradable, nontoxic, and renewable diesel fuel. Hence, the economic utilization of t...

    Authors: Wesam Taha Basal, Aliaa Mahmoud Issa, Shehab Eldin Sayed Mohammed and Saher Abd-Elhafeez Mazen
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:61
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  2. Nitroreductases are a family of evolutionarily related proteins catalyzing the reduction of nitro-substituted compounds. Nitroreductases are widespread enzymes, but nearly all modern research and practical app...

    Authors: Siarhei A. Dabravolski
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:60
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  3. Sweet sorghum is an emerging biofuel candidate crop with multiple benefits as a source of biomass energy. Increase of biomass and sugar productivity and quality is a central goal in its improvement. Target reg...

    Authors: Yehia A. Khidr, Sileshi A. Mekuriaw, Adel E. Hegazy and Enass Amer
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:59
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  4. The Capparaceae family is commonly recognized as a caper, while Cleomaceae represents one of small flowering family within the order Brassicales. Earlier, Cleomaceae was included in the family Capparaceae; then, ...

    Authors: Mohamed Abd. S. El zayat, Mahmoud El Sayd Ali and Mohamed Hamdy Amar
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:58
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  5. Halophiles offer an attractive source of genes conferring salt tolerance. Halobacillus trueperi SS1 strain of Lunsu, Himachal Pradesh, India, a strict halophile, was exploited to isolate and clone the genes for s...

    Authors: Sonika Gupta, Parul Sharma, Kamal Dev and Anuradha Sourirajan
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:57
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  6. Microbial origin polysaccharides have gained popularity due to lesser toxicity, better degradability and selectivity as compared to their synthetic counterparts and can be used as emulsifier, stabilizer, thick...

    Authors: Kanika Sharma, Nivedita Sharma, Shweta Handa and Shruti Pathania
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:56
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  7. Pathogenic bacteria cause significant economic damages in agriculture. The detection of such bacteria is considered as a continual interest for plant pathologists to prevent disease dissemination. Pseudomonas syr...

    Authors: R. Goudarzi and M. M. Mortazavi
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:55
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  8. Meyerozyma guilliermondii is a yeast which could be isolated from a variety of environments. The vka1 strain isolated and purified from the organic compost was found to have composting potential. To better unders...

    Authors: Ravisankar Valsalan and Deepu Mathew
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:54
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  9. The present study reports the antibacterial potential of phyto-nano-hybrid particles Ag-CuO (silver-copper oxide) against drug-resistant pathogens isolated from a Russian hospital in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. The ...

    Authors: Syed Baker, Perianova Olga, Rukosueva Tatiana, Potkina Nadezhda, Garkusha Tatyana, Rukovets Tatyana, Elena Saveleva, Khokhlova Olga, Gudkova Elizaveta, Gildeeva Karina, Udegova Ekaterina, Sergeenako Anastasia and Putintseva Margarita
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:53
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  10. Reduced height-1 dwarfing alleles affect DELLA proteins belonging to a family of putative transcriptional regulators that modulate plant growth and development. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes five DELLA ...

    Authors: Izat Smekenov, Sanzhar Alybayev, Temurkhan Ayupov, Guliza Rakhmatullaeva and Amangeldy Bissenbaev
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:52
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  11. Colorectal cancer is common to both sexes; third in terms of morbidity and second in terms of mortality, accounting for 10% and 9.2% of cancer cases in men and women globally. Although drugs such as bevacizuma...

    Authors: Fabian Adakole Ikwu, Yusuf Isyaku, Babatunde Samuel Obadawo, Hadiza Abdulrahman Lawal and Samuel Akolade Ajibowu
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:51
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  12. Various Asparagus species constitute the significant vegetable and medicinal genetic resource throughout the world. Asparagus species serve as important commodity of food and pharmaceutical industries in India. A...

    Authors: Manish Kapoor, Pooja Mawal, Vikas Sharma and Raghbir Chand Gupta
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:50
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  13. RNA editing is common in terrestrial plants, especially in mitochondria and chloroplast. In the photosynthesis process, NAD dehydrogenase plays a very important role. Subunit 2 of NADH-dehydrogenase is one of ...

    Authors: Ahmed M. Ramadan
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:49
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  14. Biolistic systems are used to shoot exogenous DNA, RNA, protein, and other macromolecules to transfer them into cells for genetic transformation, genome editing, and drug delivery. Such systems are especially ...

    Authors: Daisuke Tsugama and Tetsuo Takano
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:48
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  15. As there has been an increasing trend in the effective utilization of plant and crop residues for microbial transformation into a desired product, an attempt was made to compare of exo-polygalacturonase productio...

    Authors: Kausik Majumder, Bubai Paul and Rakhi Sundas
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:47
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  16. Pakistan is one of the top five date fruit-producing countries and produced more than 30% wastes in picking, packing, storage, and commercialization stages. The date fruit wastes are usually considered inedibl...

    Authors: Fatima Aslam, Asma Ansari, Afsheen Aman, Granaz Baloch, Gissed Nisar, Abdul Hameed Baloch and Haneef Ur Rehman
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:46
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  17. Chitin is an important biopolymer next to cellulose, extracted in the present study. The exoskeleton of marine bycatch brachyuran crabs, namely Calappa lophos, Dromia dehaani, Dorippe facchino and also from st...

    Authors: Umar Shahbaz and Xiaobin Yu
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:45
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  18. In this study, strictosidine synthase (STR) from Catharanthus roseus that plays an important role in alkaloid biosynthesis was selected. The purpose of this work was to perform in silico analysis and to predict t...

    Authors: Archna Sahay, Anil Piprodhe and Mashitha Pise
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:44
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  19. In the current research, we have developed silver and iron nanoparticles of isolated proanthocynidin (PAC) from grape seed by green synthesis and evaluated for antimicrobial, antioxidant activity and in vitro ...

    Authors: Kiran P. Shejawal, Dheeraj S. Randive, Somnath D. Bhinge, Mangesh A. Bhutkar, Ganesh H. Wadkar and Namdeo R. Jadhav
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:43
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  20. Chloroplast genome sequencing is becoming a valuable process for developing several DNA barcodes. At present, plastid DNA barcode for systematics and evolution in flowering plant rely heavily on the use of non...

    Authors: Mohamed Hamdy Amar
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:42
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  21. Anthropogenic activity, climate change, pollution, and exploitation of natural resources are some reasons that cause threatening of plant diversity. Silene schimperiana is an endangered plant species in Egypt and...

    Authors: Heba El-Sayed Ghareb, Shafik Darwish Ibrahim and Ghada Abd El-Moneim Hegazi
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:41
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  22. Tricholepis roylei Hook. f. is a bushy annual shrub of the Asteraceae family and point endemic species of the Western Himalaya. T. roylei is a critically endangered species and factors like poor seed germination ...

    Authors: Giriraj Singh Panwar and Bhavana Joshi
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:40
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  23. Microbial community has an essential role in various fields, especially the industrial sector. Microbes produce metabolites in the form of enzymes, which are one of the essential compounds for industrial proce...

    Authors: Fitra Adi Prayogo, Anto Budiharjo, Hermin Pancasakti Kusumaningrum, Wijanarka Wijanarka, Agung Suprihadi and Nurhayati Nurhayati
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:39
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  25. Genus Vicia is a member of family Fabaceae and comprises 180 to 210 species. The most important species is faba bean (Vicia faba) which is still one of the most favourable grain legumes over all the world. The ge...

    Authors: Hoda B. M. Ali and Samira A. Osman
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:37
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  26. Proteases or peptidases are an imperative class of hydrolytic enzymes capable of hydrolyzing large proteins into smaller peptides. The cold-adapted proteases show higher catalytic capacity in low temperatures ...

    Authors: Junaid Furhan
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:36
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  28. The World Health Organization (WHO) report stated that Acinetobacter baumannii had been classified as one of the most important pathogenic bacteria causing nosocomial infection in hospital patients due to multi-d...

    Authors: Gizachew Muluneh Amera, Rameez Jabeer Khan, Rajat Kumar Jha, Amita Pathak, Jayaraman Muthukumaran and Amit Kumar Singh
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:33
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  29. We have previously isolated Bacillus subtilis HMNig-2 and MENO2 strains, from honey and the honeybee gut microbiome respectively, and demonstrated these strains to produce levansucrase with potential probiotics c...

    Authors: Abdelhamid A. Hamdy, Mona A. Esawy, Nouran A. Elattal, Magdy A. Amin, Amal E. Ali, Ghada E. A. Awad, Ian Connerton and Nahla M. Mansour
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:34
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  30. Tea (Camellia sinensis (L). O. Kuntze) is known as the oldest, mild stimulating caffeine containing non-alcoholic beverage. One of the major threats in south Asian tea industry is the blister blight leaf disease ...

    Authors: K. H. T. Karunarathna, N. H. K. S. Senathilake, K. M. Mewan, O. V. D. S. J. Weerasena and S. A. C. N. Perera
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:32
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2022 20:6

  31. Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is an intricate molecular and biochemical process principally based on cellular totipotency and a model in studying plant development. In this unique embryo-forming process, the vege...

    Authors: Basit Gulzar, A. Mujib, Moien Qadir Malik, Rukaya Sayeed, Jyoti Mamgain and Bushra Ejaz
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:31
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  32. Identification of molecular characterization of genes underlying livestock productive traits may allow applying advanced biotechnology techniques to improve animal productivity. Growth hormone (GH) controls bo...

    Authors: Waleid Mohamed El-Sayed Shakweer and Hashem Hamed Abd EL-Rahman
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:30
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  33. The storage protein of the aerial tuber of Dioscorea bulbifera was purified and its physicochemical, enzymatic and molecular properties determined with a view to comparing its functionality and genetic relatednes...

    Authors: Olukemi Adetutu Osukoya and Adenike Kuku
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:29
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  34. Plants with high biomass can be manipulated for their reducing sugar content which ultimately upon fermentation produces ethanol. This concept was used to enhance the production of reducing sugar from cattail (Ty...

    Authors: Sunil Kodishetty Ramaiah, Girisha Shringala Thimappa, Lokesh Kyathasandra Nataraj and Proteek Dasgupta
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:28
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  35. An Egyptian indigenous unicellular green microalga was isolated from the coastal water of Suez Bay (N 29.92°, E 32.473°), Red Sea, Egypt. The molecular analysis based on 18S rRNA sequence showed that the gene ...

    Authors: Mostafa El-Sheekh, Mahmoud Abu-Faddan, Atef Abo-Shady, Mohamed Zein Alabedin Nassar and Wagdy Labib
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:27
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  36. Prodigiosin is a naturally occurring red pigment by Serratia marcescens and having enormous medicinal properties. Recently, there is a need to develop a high-throughput and economically feasible bioprocess for th...

    Authors: Ashlesha Bhagwat and Unnati Padalia
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:26
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  37. CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology is a DNA manipulation tool for trait improvement. This technology has been demonstrated and successfully applied to edit the genome in various species of plants. The deliv...

    Authors: Dulam Sandhya, Phanikanth Jogam, Venkateswar Rao Allini, Sadanandam Abbagani and Anshu Alok
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:25
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  38. The point of the present investigation was to blend effective chitosan nanoparticles (CNPs) loaded with Pterocarpus marsupium (PM) heartwood extract and evaluate its biomedical applications. Various plant extract...

    Authors: Anupama Ammulu Manne, Vinay Viswanath K., Ajay Kumar G, Ushakiranmayi Mangamuri and Sudhakar Podha
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:19
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  39. Pharmaceutically important curcuminoid synthesis in C. longa is controlled by CURS1, CURS2, and CURS3 genes. The present study detected the physicochemical properties and structural characteristics including the ...

    Authors: R. Santhoshkumar and A. Yusuf
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:24
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  40. Due to a multitude of industrial applications of keratinolytic proteases, their demands are increasing. The present investigation studied the production and monitoring of the most possible multi-functional app...

    Authors: Doaa A. Goda, Ahmad R. Bassiouny, Nihad M. Abdel Monem, Nadia A. Soliman and Yasser R. Abdel Fattah
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:23
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  41. Alternaria blight, a recalcitrant disease caused by Alternaria brassicae and Alternaria brassicicola, has been recognized for significant losses of oilseed crops especially rapeseed-mustard throughout the world. ...

    Authors: Rajesh Kumar Pathak, Mamta Baunthiyal, Dinesh Pandey and Anil Kumar
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:17
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  42. The isolation of high-quality RNA from strawberry leaves and fruits is notoriously cumbersome. Both tissues are extremely rich in active secondary metabolites, as phenolics and pigments that inevitably perturb...

    Authors: Mohamed Hazman, Farida Kabil, Shrouk Abd Elhamid and Peter Nick
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:22
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  43. The production of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is an essential tool for rhizobacteria to stimulate and facilitate plant growth. For this, eighty rhizobial bacteria isolated from root nodules of Acacia cyanophylla g...

    Authors: Sara Lebrazi, Mouhcine Fadil, Marwa Chraibi and Kawtar Fikri-Benbrahim
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:21
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  44. Lysyl oxidase is an extracellular regulatory enzyme with an imperative role in interlinking of collagen and elastin by oxidizing lysine residues. Lysyl oxidase has been implicated in incidence of mammary tumor...

    Authors: Afnan Saleem and Shiveeli Rajput
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:20
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  45. Due to the development of superbugs as a result of unprescribed and frequent use of antibiotics in recent years, an alternate form of medicine had to be introduced. In light of this global threat, researchers ...

    Authors: S. M. Rakib-Uz-Zaman, Asif Iqbal, Sadrina Afrin Mowna, Mst Gitika Khanom, Mohammad Mastak Al Amin and Kashmery Khan
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:18
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  46. Probiotic strains are incorporated into food substrates to contribute to fermentation process. The technological suitability of such strains to improve the flavor and nutritional value of fermented food is str...

    Authors: Omotade Richard Ogunremi, Renu Agrawal and Abiodun Sanni
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:16
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  47. Eukaryotic initiation factor 2B (eIF2B) initiates and regulates translation initiation in eukaryotes. eIF2B gene mutations cause leukoencephalopathy called vanishing white matter disease (VWM) in humans and sl...

    Authors: Sonum Sharma, Anuradha Sourirajan, David J. Baumler and Kamal Dev
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:15
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  49. In the current study, we have investigated the effect of each of curcumin (CUR) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) either separate or mixed together (CUR + SMX) on biochemical, hematological and histological alternati...

    Authors: Rasha Fekry Zahran, Zeinab M. Geba, Ashraf A. Tabll and Mohammad M. Mashaly
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:13
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  50. Field-testing genetically modified crops provides scientists with an opportunity to collect information on environmental interactions and agronomic performance, which is critical to a full environmental safety...

    Authors: Salman Dastan, Behzad Ghareyazie and Shahpour Abdollahi
    Citation: Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology 2020 18:12
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