Carbohydrates are a fundamental unit playing pivotal roles in all the biological processes. It
is thus essential to develop methods for synthesizing, functionalizing, and manipulating …

Bacillus species continue to be dominant bacterial workhorses in microbial fermentations.
Bacillus subtilis (natto) is the key microbial participant in the ongoing production of the soya …

Glycans have diverse physiological functions, ranging from energy storage and structural
integrity to cell signalling and the regulation of intracellular processes. Although biomass …

For a long time, the genus Bacillus has been known and considered among the most
applicable genera in several fields. Recent taxonomical developments resulted in the …

Carbohydrates represent a promising option in transitioning from oil-based chemical
resources to renewable ones, with the goal of developing chemistries for a sustainable …

Pentose sugars are widespread in nature and two of them, D-xylose and L-arabinose
belong to the most abundant sugars being the second and third by abundance sugars in dry …

Due to the inherent difficulties associated with gene delivery into regenerable explants and
recovery of plantlets with the introduced transgene, wheat was the last among cereals to be …

Most monosaccharides in nature are hexoses, which have six carbon atoms; the most well-
known hexose is d-glucose. Various hexoses with distinct characteristics can be produced …

Biochemical methods, usually microbial or enzymatic, are suitable for the production of
unnatural or rare monosaccharides. D-Arabitol was produced from D-glucose by …

Arginine, one of the basic amino acids known as green catalysts for sugar isomerization,
was used to isomerize ribose to ribulose, a rare keto-pentose sugar, and the effects of …