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Biodegradability of HCH in agricultural soils from Guadeloupe (French West Indies): identification of lin genes, involved in HCH degradation pathway
Banana has been a main agricultural product in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) since the 1960s. This crop requires the intensive use of pesticides to prevent attacks by insect pests. Chlorinated pesticides, such as hexachlorocyclohexane ...
Springer Heidelberg2016Bioreactor processes based on disposable materials for the production of recombinant proteins from mammalian cells
The objective of industrial cell culture technology is to produce high value-added therapeutic proteins that are well suited for the treatment of infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. Nowadays, an important focus is the reduction of the tim ...
EPFL2007Screening of sunflower cultivars for metal phytoextraction in a contaminated field prior to mutagenesis
Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Erika Nehnevajova
Sunflower can be used for the remediation of metal-contaminated soils. Its high biomass production makes this plant species interesting for phytoextraction and using sunflower oil for a technical purpose may improve the economic balance of phytoremediation ...
2005Aluminum in the opal silica reticule of phytoliths: A new tool in palaeoecological studies
X-ray microanalysis was employed to screen biogenic plant silica extracted from the aboveground tissues of 20 species (Grammeae Cyperaceae. Ericaceae, and Coniferae) occurring in subalpine and alpine grasslands, heaths, and woodlands on siliceous bedrock i ...
2002