August 2014

Cultivation of Pleurotus ostreatus on Grevillea robusta leaves at Dilla University, Ethiopia

Mushrooms consumption has generated interest in man from early civilization. Mushrooms have a unique texture and flavour that are not found in other food crops. In addition, mushrooms cultivating is a promising new industry, with many new businesses developing every year. Cultivation of saprophytic edible mushrooms may be the currently economical biotechnology for lingo-cellulose organic waste recycling that combines...

Author(s): Fekadu Alemu

August 2014

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and small related molecules: Effects on Schizosaccharomyces pombe morphology measured by imaging flow cytometry

Effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and small related molecules on the morphology of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) are described. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are important environmental pollutants that act as carcinogens via several mechanisms of action. Fission yeast is a useful model organism for revealing the mechanisms by which these molecules affect the cell. None of the molecules studied...

Author(s): Trí Lê, Areeba Qureshi, Joel Heisler, Laura Bryant, Jehan Shah, Tom D. Wolkow and Radha Pyati