Biotechnology: Health, Food, Energy and Environment Applications

351 Pages·2012·10.689 MB·English

by  Luis G. Torres Bustillos, Ines Garcia Pena

BIOTECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY AND MEDICINE

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INES GARCIA PEÑA
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CONTENTS

Foreword vii 
Acknowledgments ix 
Chapter 1 UPIBI and the Biotechnology 1 
Juan Aranda, Inés Peña and Luis G. Torres 
Chapter 2 Chloroplast Transformation in Plants for the Production of Vaccines 5 
Jesús Agustín Badillo-Corona and Nuria González-Rábade  
Chapter 3 The Role of Glycosides on Biotechnology 25 
Marco A. Brito-Arias 
Chapter 4 State Estimation Based on Projection Observers Applied to Sequential
Treatment Based on Ozonation and Aerobic Biodegradation:
Application for Phenolic Wastewaters 43 
Pamela Guerra, Alan García, Tatyana Poznyak, Ines García
and Isaac Chairez 
Chapter 5 Metal Adsorption and Nanoparticles Formation by Microorganisms 65 
Luis C. Fernández Linares, Dorian A. Bautista Hernández
and Isaías Martínez Bautista 
Chapter 6 Microalgae Culture as Feedstock for Biofuels 89 
Luis Fernández Linares 
Chapter 7 Methane and Bio-Hydrogen Production from Fruit and Vegetable
Waste (FVW): From CH4 and H2 to Electricity 115 
Ines García-Peña, Edgar Salgado-Manjarrez, Juan Aranda-Barradas,
Isaac Chairez, Prathap Parameswaran and Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown 
Chapter 8 Biological Degradation of Aromatic Acids 139 
C. Garibay-Orijel and A. Ordaz-Cortés 
Chapter 9 Flavonoids with Pharmacological Activity of Medicinal Plants 153 
Yolanda Gómez y Gómez, María Esther Bautista Ramírez
and Abraham Balderas López
vi Contents
Chapter 10 Microbial Sulfate Reduction Combined with Reductive Dechlorination
of Trichloroethylene in Hydrothermal Vents Sediments 169 
Claudia Guerrero-Barajas, Jessica K. Suastes-Rivas,  
Lisiana E. Rosas-Rocha, Victor G. Rodríguez-García,  
Claudio Garibay-Orijel, Erika T. Quintana-Cano
and Luis A. Maldonado-Manjarrez 
Chapter 11 Hydrogen Bonding in Pharmacy: Oxalic Acid Derivatives as a Case
of Study 189 
Francisco J. Martínez-Martínez, Efrén V. García-Báez, 
Juan Saulo González-González, and Itzia I. Padilla-Martínez 
Chapter 12 Fractal And Multifractal Study of Heartbeat Interval Time Series
Analysis in Young Patients with Metabolic Syndrome 207 
A. Muñoz Diosdado and G. Gálvez Coyt 
Chapter 13 Optimization of the Ultrafiltration in Fermentation Broths 237 
Carlos Orozco Álvarez, Gerardo Albarrán Torres, 
Sergio García Salas and Leobardo Ordaz Contreras 
Chapter 14 New Approaches to Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) 261 
Norma G. Rojas-Avelizapa, Regina Hernandez-Gamaz
and Luis G. Torres 
Chapter 15 Microbial Growth Modeling and Analysis 283 
Edgar Salgado-Manjarrez, Juan S. Aranda-Barradas
and Inés García-Peña 
Chapter 16 Plant Polysaccharides as a New Source for Coagulant-Flocculant
Aids and Surfactants 303 
Luis G. Torres Bustillos 
Index 323
FOREWORD

We are living in a period where the time required to pass from discoveries and inventions
to their applications are becoming increasingly shorter. While it took more than 60 years after
the first laboratory trials in 1933 to market the first hybrid corn, only 5 years were necessary
since the first reports of transgenic insulin to its commercial production. In other fields, such
as the environment, bioremediation techniques which were unknown 40 years, have rapidly
integrated to the physicochemical methods to solve persistent problems in the biosphere of
previously unknown molecules. In a world of declining fossil energy, biotechnology explores
a multiple products and processes hidden in the rich genome of microbes, plants and animals.
One of the reasons for the renewed spirit of biotechnology is supported by its capacity to
swiftly incorporate the multidisciplinary advances in basic and applied sciences.
This volume presents the wide range of biotechnology research by the UPIBI community,
teachers and students in the past 24 years. Novel methodologies, basic results and new
processes are reported in several of the most dynamic fields in biotechnology such as health,
energy, food and environment. This effort will certainly be an inspiration for students wishing
to join research teams, for academic colleagues in search of new knowledge and for
professionals exploring of novel ideas or innovative solutions.

Sergio Revah Moiseev (PhD)
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa
Mexico