Rosin from Pinus pinaster Portuguese forests shows a regular profile of resin acids

Autor: Ângela Pinheiro, Isabel Martins, Artur Bento, Rita Escórcio, Carolina Nunes, Adélia Varela, João Nunes, Carlos A.M. Afonso, Cristina Silva Pereira

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol 14 (2023)

Pinus pinaster forestry occupies >20% of the forest ecosystem area in the continental territory of Portugal with a high impact on the national economy. This species’ major derived non-wood product is oleoresin, the raw material for rosin production

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Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Producing Antimicrobial Cutin-Derived Oligomers from Tomato Pomace

Autor: Rita Escórcio, Artur Bento, Ana S. Tomé, Vanessa G. Correia, Rúben Rodrigues, Carlos J. S. Moreira, Didier Marion, Bénédicte Bakan, Cristina Silva Pereira

Publikováno v: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10:11415-11427

Agro-industrial residues comprise a rich diversity of plant polymers and bioactive compounds, constituting promising sources for the development of materials, including bioplastics, and food supplements, among other applications. In particular, the p

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https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03437

Pinus radiata bark sequentially processed using scCO2 and an ionic liquid catalyst yields plentiful resin acids and alkanoic acids enriched suberin

Autor: Artur Bento, Rita Escórcio, Ana S. Tomé, Michael Robertson, Evamaria C. Gaugler, Stuart J. Malthus, Laura G. Raymond, Stefan J. Hill, Cristina Silva Pereira

Publikováno v: Industrial Crops and Products. 185:115172

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2022.115172

An Ionic Liquid Extraction That Preserves the Molecular Structure of Cutin Shown by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Autor: Christophe Rothan, Ângela Pinheiro, Łukasz P. Haliński, Rita Escórcio, Johann Petit, Carlos J. S. Moreira, Vanessa G. Correia, Cristina Silva Pereira, Joana Pais, Artur Bento, Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk

Publikováno v: Plant Physiol
Plant Physiology
Plant Physiology, American Society of Plant Biologists, 2020, 184 (2), pp.592-606. ⟨10.1104/pp.20.01049⟩

The biopolyester cutin is ubiquitous in land plants, building the polymeric matrix of the plant's outermost defensive barrier, the cuticle. Cutin influences many biological processes in planta; however, due to its complexity and highly branched natur

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32788301

The molecular structure and multifunctionality of the cryptic plant polymer suberin

Autor: C. Silva Pereira, Rúben Rodrigues, A. Greenhalgh, Łukasz P. Haliński, Piotr Stepnowski, Artur Bento, Martin Frydrych, Joana Pais, Vanessa G. Correia, Alistair W. T. King, Fritz Vollrath

Publikováno v: Materials Today Bio, Vol 5, Iss, Pp-(2020)
Correia, V G, Bento, A, Pais, J, Rodrigues, R, Haliński, P, Frydrych, M, Greenhalgh, A, Stepnowski, P, Vollrath, F, King, A W T & Pereira, C S 2020, ' The molecular structure and multifunctionality of the cryptic plant polymer suberin ', Materials Today Bio, vol. 5, 100039 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtbio.2019.100039
Materials Today Bio

Suberin, a plant polyester, consists of polyfunctional long-chain fatty acids and glycerol and is an intriguing candidate as a novel antimicrobial material. We purified suberin from cork using ionic-liquid catalysis during which the glycerol bonds th

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http://hdl.handle.net/10138/315937