Sentences with phrase «microbial enzymes»

Your veterinarian or holistic healthcare practitioner can prescribe microbial enzymes, pancreatic enzymes or plant enzymes especially if your pet is dealing with pancreatic disease and enzyme production is inadequate.

An animal - based diet may trigger IBD by causing microbial enzyme activity in the intestines, which produces a harmful gas called hydrogen sulfide.

If a bag made of the right plastic reaches the ocean, for example, microbial enzymes in the water would make the material depolymerise and «the bag just disappears», Phillips says.

For this to happen plant material must be broken down (this is currently done by microbial enzymes — proteins — called «cellulases»).

They have demonstrated a way in which microbial enzymes can convert D - glucose to muconic acid (Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 116, p 399).

It's not just the actions of the cheating microbes alone that lead to the self - regulation of decomposition we observed, but their interactions and feedbacks with microbial enzyme producers within a complex microbial system,» says Dieckmann.

«We observed that the activity of a widely - distributed group of microbial enzymes was influenced by the availability of iron in the seawater,» Dr. Browning points out.

«They demonstrated by laboratory experiments, that microbial enzymes need iron to process phosphorus, and suggested this could also be important in the ocean.

Monsanto engineered resistance by adding the gene for a similar microbial enzyme that isn't affected.

Microbiologist, Dr. Jason Sylvan, Assistant Professor of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, who samples microbes from the depths of ocean, measures microbial enzyme activity using the portable Spark ® microplate reader by Tecan that he carries with him on the ship.

The linkages of these polysaccharides are not such that they can be cleaved by the endogenous digestive enzymes found in the gut but they could be split by microbial enzymes.»

In field experiments iron was added to seawater and the microbial enzyme activity was determined.

Hoping to find another way to protect plants, researchers with Verdia Inc. and Maxygen Inc., both in Redwood City, California, and Pioneer Hi - Bred International Inc. in Johnston, Iowa, took a cue from a different technology — one in which a microbial enzyme is used to modify a herbicide called glufosinate.

Several years ago, van der Donk and University of Illinois colleague William Metcalf found a possible clue to the mystery of ocean methane: They discovered a microbial enzyme that produces a compound called methylphosphonate, which can become methane when a phosphate molecule is cleaved from it.