Fungus organism infusion methods including providing a fungus organism; providing a substrate; combining the fungus organism and the substrate; introducing a foreign compound to the substrate to form an infused substrate infused with the foreign compound; maintaining the fungus organism in contact with the infused substrate to promote the fungus organism ingesting the foreign compound from the infused substrate to yield an infused fungus colony; and allowing the infused fungus colony to fruit into a fruit body.

The present invention provides a method for profiling plant endophyte microbiomes, wherein the method provides for identification of endophyte strains that are phylogenetically related to a desired endophyte strain. More particularly, the present invention relates to method for identifying, characterising and/or comparing endophyte strains and to novel endophyte strains selected and/or isolated by the method. The present invention also relates to methods for transferring endophyte strains between plants.

The present disclosure relates to a Beauveria bassiana KNU-101 strain. The Beauveria bassiana KNU-101 strain is entomopathogenic, exhibits an excellent insecticidal effect on controlling thrips, which are soil pests that harm crops, and also has excellent sporulation ability. Thus, the Beauveria bassiana KNU-101 strain may be effectively used as an environmentally friendly means for controlling pests.

A leather-like hybrid mycelial cellulose sheet and production thereof. Precise selection of mushroom species and reagents allows for production at low pH, thereby resulting in a strong, flexible, and dry leather-like material suitable for application in various industries.

Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for preparing (S)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline-1-carboxylic acid and derivatives thereof, comprising: taking a racemate of a compound represented by Formula (I) or a racemate of a salt of the compound represented by Formula (I) as a substrate, and making a R-isomer of the compound represented by Formula (I) in the substrate react under the catalysis of oxidative dehydrogenase to generate imino acid represented by formula (II); and converting the imino acid represented by Formula (II) into an S-isomer of the compound represented by Formula (I) in the presence of pipecolic acid reductase and a coenzyme capable of supplying hydrogen anions. The present disclosure is featured by mild reaction condition, strong stereoselectivity, high reaction efficiency, high conversion rate, etc.

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Described herein are an immobilized enzyme, and a preparation method therefor and a use thereof. The immobilized enzyme includes activated PEI and an enzyme covalently bonded to the activated PEI, where the enzyme is selected from any one of a transaminase, a ketoreductase, a monooxygenase, an ammonia lyase, an ene-reductase, an imine reductase, an amino acid dehydrogenase and a nitrilase.

The biological production of beta-hydroxyisovalerate (βHIV) using a non-natural microorganism. The non-natural microorganism for the biologically-derived βHIV provides more beta-hydroxyisovalerate synthase activity than the wild-type parent. The non-natural microorganism can host a non-natural enzyme, such as the non-natural enzyme expressed in a yeast or bacteria, wherein the non-natural microorganism comprises an active βHIV metabolic pathway for the production of βHIV. The biological derivation of βHIV eliminates toxic by-products and impurities that result from the chemical production of βHIV, such that βHIV produced by a non-natural microorganism prior to any isolation or purification process has not been in substantial contact with any halogen-containing component.

The present invention generally relates to methods of producing one or more indole diterpene compounds in the epoxy janthitrem biosynthetic pathway and polynucleotides, polypeptides, expression constructs and host cells useful in the production of one or more indole diterpene compounds, and methods of using same to confer a benefit to an organism, such as increased insect pest resistance.

A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation costs for energy usage, oxygenation, water usage and waste stream production.

The present invention concerns an oleaginous yeast variant of the species Rhodosporidium azoricum characterized by higher biomass yields and intra- cellular lipid accumulation useful for the production of bio-fuels higher, in determined conditions, with respect to the wild type strain of the same species. Furthermore, the invention concerns a method through which said oleaginous yeast variant of the species Rhodosporidium azoricum was obtained. The invention further concerns the lipid production by means of said variant strain of oleaginous yeast of the species Rhodosporidium azoricum.