Innovations in Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future

ISBN-13: 9783030801106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 448 str.

Naga Raju Maddela; Luz Cecilia García

Opis

This contributed volume compiles the latest improvements in the field of biotechnology. It focuses on topics that comprises industrial, environment, agricultural and medical related issues to technology and biological studies and exhibits the correlation between the biological world and the dependence of humans on it. The book is organized into five parts covering the role of biotechnology in industrial products, environmental remediation, agriculture and pharmacological agents. Ranging from micro-scale studies to macro, it covers a huge domain of agricultural biotechnology and focuses on important commercial crops (e.g. cacao and coffee), arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, flow and distribution of phosphorus in agricultural soils in the Latin American region. Overall, the book portrays the importance of modern biotechnology and its role in solving the problems in modern day life. The book is a ready reference for practicing students, researchers of environmental engineering, chemical engineering, agricultural engineering, and other allied fields likewise.

Spis treści

Part I: Biotechnology Overview

1. Introduction

Naga Raju Maddela*, Luz Cecilia García

2. Biotechnology of 21st Century

Aline Siteneski, Gilberto Vizkino

Part II: Industrial Biotechnology

3. Considerations on the Scaling of biological and chemical reactors

Rodriguez Rico Ivan Leandro

4. Design of a cultivation media for the production of metabolites with practical application in the biodegradation of industrial dyes

Daza Lopez Erlinjka Valentina*, Rosero Delgado Ernesto Alonso, Vera Bravo Peter Leonel

5. Obtaining and characterizing new biomaterials based on starch, for use in the food and health industry

López Terán Jorge Luis*, Maribel Beltrán, Juan Carlos Soriano, Elvia Cabrera

 

6. Influence of immersion time in pitahaya (Hylocereus undatus) proteolytic enzyme solutions on the texture of bovine meat

Zambrano Flores Freddy Miguel*, Pazmiño Castro Anderson Javier, Zambrano Flores Freddy Miguel

 

7. Determination of free amino acids in fermented and toasted cocoa (Theobroma cacao) samples, using high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection by diode arrangement

Brunetto de Gallignani Maria del Rosario*, Gallignani Máximo, Orozco Wendy, Delgado Yelitza

 

8. Characterization of cassava and bee wax residues for their use in the obtaining of bioplastic

Briones Muñoz Joselin Sofia*, Riera María Antonieta

 

9. Development of a thermoplastic material from the residues of the banana (Musa paradisiaca)

Maura Gabriela Alcívar Gavilanes*, Katiuska Lisette Carrillo Anchundia, María Antonieta Riera

 

Part III: Agricultural Biotechnology

10. Chemical ecology and its role in the conservation of threatened species: a case study in the Galapagos islands

Alejandro E. Mieles García

 

11. Energy evaluation of solid biofuels made from mixtures of lignocellulosic biomass

Palacios Bravo Holger Eugenio*, Beltrón Vinces Irene, Rosero Delgado Ernesto

 

12. Reforestation and conservation of vegetable germ plasm: challenges and expectations

Georgina Vargas Simón, División Académica de Ciencias Biológicas

 

13. Characterization of Moniliophthora roreri evans and evaluation of biological control alternatives in cacao (Theobroma cacao), for the Ecuadorian amazon

Carina Carrera Sanchez Carina María

14. Application of biotechnology to the search and selection of PGPR in the control of phytosanitary problems in cocoa (Theobroma cacao) and banana (Musa acuminata)

Canchignia Martines Ahyron Fabrico

 

15. Sustainability of organic quinoa cultivation (Chenopodium quinoa) in communities of colta Ecuador.

Julio Cesar Vargas, Alexandra Torres

 

16. Effects of artificial light intensity and temperature on the growth of lettuce (Lactuca sativa l.) in a vertical urban farm in low cost indoor

M. C. Daniel Fuentes Morales

 

17. Efficiency of led lights in the propagation and field of summer flowers in Ecuador

Elizabeth Ruth Urbano Salazar

 

Part IV: Environmental Biotechnology

 

18. Evaluation of extraction methods to obtain a natural flocculant from the tamarind seed (Tamarindus indica)

Sanchez Mendoza Virginia Annabelt*, Loor Moreira Caroline, Lucas Mendoza Ariana, Moreira Mendoza Carlos

 

19. Bicomponent adsorption of Brilliant blue FCF and tartrazine under dynamic conditions using rice husk

Fernández Andrade Kevin Jhon*, Gonzalez Vargas María Cristina.

 

20. Kinetic approach to the biocoagulation process of mixtures of Moringa oleífera and Caesalpinia spinosa in synthetic turby water.

Caroline Lissette Loor Moreira

 

21. Sustainable alternatives in the treatment of liquid industrial waste

Gilberto Colina A

 

22. Biodegradation of industrial dyes with enzymatic extracts obtained in FES and FEL systems with Pleurotus djamor

Wittong Zambrano Cindy Yaritza*, Montalvo Villaprado Lissette Dayanara, Rosero Delgado Ernesto Alonso

 

23. Removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from medium and soil (lab & field conditions) by microorganisms isolated from the Ecuadorian amazon rainforest

Naga Raju Maddela

 

Part V: Medicinal Plant Biotechnology

24. Chemistry of natural products

Elvia Victoria Cabrera

 

25. Evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of natural extracts of altamisa (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) and melissa (Melissa officinallis) for the control of pathogenic agents

Baque Suarez Rosa Franshesca*, Cadena Marcillo Lisbeth Stefanía, Sánchez Mendoza Virginia Annabelt, Jadán Piedra Carlos

 

26. Phenolic compounds of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) shell extraction and antimicrobial activity

Stalin Santacruz

 

27. Susceptibility to antimicrobials in strains of environmental origin, a public health problem

Montiel Romero Marynes

28. Inhibition effect of oregano (Origanum vulgare) essential oil on an active biodegradable film

Pazmiño Castro Anderson Javier*, Campuzano Vera Ana María, Marín Morocho Karina Marisabel

 

29. Current Challenges and Future Prospective of Biotechnology

Naga Raju Maddela, Luz Cecilia García

O autorze

Dr. Naga Raju Maddela is a Professor in the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud at the Universidad Técnica de Manabí, in Portoviejo, Ecuador.

Dr. Luz Cecilia García is a Director at the Instituto de Investigación & Professor in the Facultad de Ingeniería Agronómica at the Universidad Técnica de Manabí, in Portoviejo, Ecuador.