Enrichment of the soil microbial community in the bioremediation of a petroleum-contaminated soil amended with rice straw or sawdust.

Key fungal degradation patterns, enzymes and their applications for the removal of aliphatic hydrocarbons in polluted soils: A review

Insights into the social life and obscure side of Scedosporium/Lomentospora species: ubiquitous, emerging and multidrug-resistant opportunistic pathogens

Background Over the past two decades, the clinical evidence supporting the beneficial effects of probiotics in consumer's health and wellness has increased. Hence, the food and pharmaceutical industries have encouraged the production of different probiotic foods and probiotic strains. So far, nearly all marketed probiotics are from animal (dairy and human subjects) origin; however, other sources are increasingly being reported as promising reservoirs of new potential probiotics. In this last regard, before any possible application, probiotic candidates must be characterized by comprehensive trials. Scope and approach This review aims to provide a contemporary perspective in the evaluation and characterization of probiotics under the “probiogenomics” context. Key findings and conclusions Typically, probiotic candidates are selected after several in vitro and in vivo trials aimed to determine their suitable resistance to physiological barriers such as simulated digestive conditions, sensitive inhibition of pathogens, adherence to mucus and hemolytic potential, among other properties. However, there is a need for additional research to further clarify the knowledge of their metabolic capabilities, key features of adaptation, and their physiological functions, including their safety and the molecular mechanism underlaying their functional activities. Thus, different genomics-based approaches, known as “probiogenomics”, have been successfully applied to facilitate the study of current probiotics and new potential candidates, including their health-promoting and safety properties.

Genomics-based approaches to identify and predict the health-promoting and safety activities of promising probiotic strains – A probiogenomics review

The high demand for petroleum oil has led to hydrocarbon contamination in soil, including agricultural lands, and many other ecosystems across the globe. Physical and chemical treatments are effect...

Rhizosphere assisted bioengineering approaches for the mitigation of petroleum hydrocarbons contamination in soil.

Crude oil contamination of soils and waters is a worldwide problem, which has been actively addressed in recent years. Sequencing genomes of microorganisms involved in the degradation of hydrocarbons have allowed the identification of several promoters, genes, and degradation pathways of these contaminants. This knowledge allows a better understanding of the functional dynamics of microbial degradation. Here, we report a first draft of the 44.2 Mbp genome assembly of an environmental strain of the fungus Scedosporium apiospermum. The assembly consisted of 178 high-quality DNA scaffolds with 1.93% of sequence repeats identified. A total of 11,195 protein-coding genes were predicted including a diverse group of gene families involved in hydrocarbon degradation pathways like dioxygenases and cytochrome P450. The metabolic pathways identified in the genome can potentially degrade hydrocarbons like chloroalkane/alkene, chorocyclohexane, and chlorobenzene, benzoate, aminobenzoate, fluorobenzoate, toluene, caprolactam, geraniol, naphthalene, styrene, atrazine, dioxin, xylene, ethylbenzene, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The comparison analysis between this strain and the previous sequenced clinical strain showed important differences in terms of annotated genes involved in the hydrocarbon degradation process.

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The genomic study of an environmental isolate of Scedosporium apiospermum shows its metabolic potential to degrade hydrocarbons

The admittance of 17 of Le Corbusier’s architectural works on the UNESCO's heritage list, in July 2016, raised controversies that echo the criticisms made by the architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri (Rome, 1935 – Venice, 1984) regarding The Capitol Complex in Chandigarh (India), which was the only urban project included in the UNESCO’s dossier. Tafuri’s criticism focused on the vastness of the scale addressed, on the visual primacy of the project and on the supposed absence of a concept of unity. This paper rebuts the sheer understanding of the Capitol Complex strictly from its architecture and from a Western urban imaginary. The prejudices regarding modern urbanism, the unfinished condition of the work and its current state prevent many of its detractors from acknowledging the ongoing dialogue between the cultural background of Chandigarh, the inhabitant’s reception of the Capitol of the city, and Le Corbusier’s departure from the first phase of his own urban theory.

https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/LC/article/download/14233/13650

The void in Chandigarh’s Capitol Complex: a legacy at an eastern scale

Within the different books written about Le Corbusier’s Master Plan for Bogota (1949-1951) and his plan for Chandigarh (1951), several authors refer to the way that the Swiss-French architect used the theory of the sector proposed for Bogota, to develop the plan for the new capital of Punjab in India. However these authors never described the way he does it. This article presents a possible interpretation of the relationships between both projects, with attend to highlight the qualities of the housing project dreamed and built by four architects for Chandigarh; Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Fry and Drew. Chandigarh is a living example of how the modern city is not a failure but a referent from we could learn valuable lessons, in times where discussion and research about housing for the majority stills alive.

María Cecilia O’Byrne Orozco

Papers

The genomic study of an environmental isolate of Scedosporium apiospermum shows its metabolic potential to degrade hydrocarbons

The void in Chandigarh’s Capitol Complex: a legacy at an eastern scale

Bogotá en Chandigarh: el sector y la cuadra española