Chitinases production: A robust enzyme and its industrial applications

RV Singh, K Sambyal, A Negi, S Sonwani… - Biocatalysis and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In nature, distinct number of renewable biopolymers are available which exist as chief
starting material for various bioprocesses; chitin being one of them that is degraded by the …

Chitinase: a potent biocatalyst and its diverse applications

G Mahajan, V Sharma, R Gupta - Biocatalysis and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Chitin is an abundant, linear, insoluble β-1, 4-linked N-acetylglucosamine polymer (GlcNAc),
found in the cuticles of insects, the cell walls of fungi and crustacean shells. Chitinases are …

Utilization of marine by-products for the recovery of value-added products

F Shahidi, V Varatharajan, H Peng… - Journal of Food …, 2019 - isnff-jfb.com
The world fisheries resources have exceeded 160 million tons in recent years. However,
every year a considerable amount of total catch is discarded as by-catch or as processing …

Actinomycete Strains Isolated from Saline Soils: Plant-Growth-Promoting Traits and Inoculation Effects on Solanum lycopersicum

R Djebaili, M Pellegrini, M Smati, M Del Gallo… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Excessive use of chemical products in agriculture is causing significant environmental
pollution and the loss of lands and fertility of agricultural soils. Plant-growth-promoting …

Expression studies of chitinase gene in transgenic potato against Alternaria solani

A Khan, IA Nasir, B Tabassum, K Aaliya, M Tariq… - Plant Cell, Tissue and …, 2017 - Springer
Plant chitinases are strong antifungal enzymes, and their genes can be utilized to engineer
crop plants, including potatoes, with tolerance against fungal pathogens. The purified …

[HTML][HTML] Improved antifungal activity of barley derived chitinase I gene that overexpress a 32 kDa recombinant chitinase in Escherichia coli host

N Toufiq, B Tabassum, MU Bhatti, A Khan… - brazilian journal of …, 2018 - SciELO Brasil
Agricultural crops suffer many diseases, including fungal and bacterial infections, causing
significant yield losses. The identification and characterisation of pathogenesis-related …

The discovery and characterization of a novel chitinase with dual catalytic domains from a Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau wetland soil metagenome

Y Dai, F Yang, X Liu, H Wang - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel chitinase (P1724) was discovered from a Qinghai-Tibetan plateau microbial
metagenome. P1724 contains two GH18 family catalytic domains and is phylogenetically …

Microbial chitinases and their applications: an overview

SK Nayak, S Nayak, S Mohanty… - Environmental and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms synthesize an array of glycosyl hydrolytic enzymes quantitatively and
chitinase is one among them. In general, the persistence of chitinase form microbial source …

[PDF][PDF] Characterization of plant growth promoting activities of bacterial endophytes and their antibacterial potential isolated from citrus.

S Mushtaq, M Shafiq, T Ashraf, MS Haider… - JAPS: Journal of …, 2019 - thejaps.org.pk
In this study screening of novel bacterial endophytes isolated from the leaves of citrus were
performed for plant growth promoting activities which include Indole Acetic Acid (IAA) …

[PDF][PDF] The effectiveness of recombinant chitinase obtained from barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) against potato pathogens.

A Khan, B Tabassum, A AALIYA, M Tariq… - Applied Ecology & …, 2019 - aloki.hu
Globally, fungi and fungi-like organisms, with over 8,000 species, cause more plant
diseases than any other group of plant pests. Chitinases possess an anti-fungal role in …