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Enzyme digestion of biofiber from mechanical heat treated municipal solid waste: Accessing kinetic and rheological design data using a pilot-scale high-solids mixer (2020)
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Ibbett, R., Tucker, G., McKechnie, J., & Meng, F. (2020). Enzyme digestion of biofiber from mechanical heat treated municipal solid waste: Accessing kinetic and rheological design data using a pilot-scale high-solids mixer. Biomass and Bioenergy, 143, Article 105817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2020.105817

© 2020 Mechanical heat treatment of municipal solid waste offers a route for the production and separation of a biofiber fraction with high organic content, which is a potential source of sugars for biochemical conversion to chemicals and fuels. This... Read More about Enzyme digestion of biofiber from mechanical heat treated municipal solid waste: Accessing kinetic and rheological design data using a pilot-scale high-solids mixer.

Policy, toxicology and physicochemical considerations on the inhalation of high concentrations of food flavour (2020)
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Dinu, V., Kilic, A., Wang, Q., Ayed, C., Fadel, A., Harding, S. E., Yakubov, G. E., & Fisk, I. D. (2020). Policy, toxicology and physicochemical considerations on the inhalation of high concentrations of food flavour. npj Science of Food, 4, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538-020-00075-y

© 2020, The Author(s). Food flavour ingredients are required by law to obtain prior approval from regulatory bodies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in terms of toxicological data and i... Read More about Policy, toxicology and physicochemical considerations on the inhalation of high concentrations of food flavour.

The multisensory perception of hop essential oil: a review (2020)
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Dietz, C., Cook, D., Huismann, M., Wilson, C., & Ford, R. (2020). The multisensory perception of hop essential oil: a review. Journal of the Institute of Brewing, 126(4), 320-342. https://doi.org/10.1002/jib.622

© 2020 The Authors. Journal of the Institute of Brewing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institute of Brewing & Distilling Hops are a key ingredient to add bitterness, aroma and flavour to beer, one of the most consumed beverag... Read More about The multisensory perception of hop essential oil: a review.

Brewing with 100% green malt – process development and key quality indicators (2020)
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Dugulin, C. A., Acuña Muñoz, L. M., Buyse, J., De Rouck, G., Bolat, I., & Cook, D. J. (2020). Brewing with 100% green malt – process development and key quality indicators. Journal of the Institute of Brewing, 126(4), 343-353. https://doi.org/10.1002/jib.620

Brewing with undried, germinated (green) malt has the potential to lower energy and water usage in the malting and brewing chain. However, doing so introduces technical and biochemical (flavour) challenges. Beers were brewed using 100% green malt (n... Read More about Brewing with 100% green malt – process development and key quality indicators.

An Optimized Reverse Genetics System Suitable for Efficient Recovery of Simian, Human, and Murine-Like Rotaviruses (2020)
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Sánchez-Tacuba, L., Feng, N., Meade, N. J., Mellits, K. H., Jaïs, P. H., Yasukawa, L. L., Resch, T. K., Jiang, B., López, S., Ding, S., & Greenberg, H. B. (2020). An Optimized Reverse Genetics System Suitable for Efficient Recovery of Simian, Human, and Murine-Like Rotaviruses. Journal of Virology, 94(18), Article e01294. https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.01294-20

Copyright © 2020 American Society for Microbiology. An entirely plasmid-based reverse genetics (RG) system was recently developed for rotavirus (RV), opening new avenues for in-depth molecular dissection of RV biology, immunology, and pathogenesis. S... Read More about An Optimized Reverse Genetics System Suitable for Efficient Recovery of Simian, Human, and Murine-Like Rotaviruses.

Tert-butyldimethylsilyl chitosan synthesis and characterization by analytical ultracentrifugation, for archaeological wood conservation (2020)
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Wakefield, J. M. K., Braovac, S., Kutzke, H., Stockman, R. A., & Harding, S. E. (2020). Tert-butyldimethylsilyl chitosan synthesis and characterization by analytical ultracentrifugation, for archaeological wood conservation. European Biophysics Journal, 49, 781-789. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-020-01450-z

The Oseberg ship is one of the most important archaeological testimonies of the Vikings. After excavation in 1904, the wooden gravegoods were conserved using alum salts. This resulted in extreme degradation of a number of the objects a hundred years... Read More about Tert-butyldimethylsilyl chitosan synthesis and characterization by analytical ultracentrifugation, for archaeological wood conservation.

Modelling flavour formation in roasted malt substrates under controlled conditions of time and temperature (2020)
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Parr, H., Bolat, I., & Cook, D. (2021). Modelling flavour formation in roasted malt substrates under controlled conditions of time and temperature. Food Chemistry, 337, Article 127641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2020.127641

Drum roasted products are used to impart colour, flavour and mouthfeel to beers. Here we designed a laboratory-scale roaster (100 g batch size) capable of precise time-temperature control and investigated the impacts of time, temperature and roasting... Read More about Modelling flavour formation in roasted malt substrates under controlled conditions of time and temperature.

Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of two potential probiotics Bacillus subtilis isolated from honey and honeybee microbiomes (2020)
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Hamdy, A. A., Esawy, M. A., Elattal, N. A., Amin, M. A., Ali, A. E., Awad, G. E. A., Connerton, I., & Mansour, N. M. (2020). Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of two potential probiotics Bacillus subtilis isolated from honey and honeybee microbiomes. Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 18(1), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43141-020-00050-w

Background: We have previously isolated Bacillus subtilis HMNig-2 and MENO2 strains, from honey and the honeybee gut microbiome respectively, and demonstrated these strains to produce levansucrase with potential probiotics characteristics. Here we re... Read More about Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of two potential probiotics Bacillus subtilis isolated from honey and honeybee microbiomes.

The effects of exogenous xylanase supplementation on the in vivo generation of xylooligosaccharides and monosaccharides in broilers fed a wheat-based diet (2020)
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Dale, T., Hannay, I., Bedford, M. R., Tucker, G. A., Brameld, J., & Parr, T. (2020). The effects of exogenous xylanase supplementation on the in vivo generation of xylooligosaccharides and monosaccharides in broilers fed a wheat-based diet. British Poultry Science, 61(4), 471-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071668.2020.1751805

1. This study aimed to quantify xylanase-induced changes in soluble monosaccharides, xylooligosaccharides (XOS) and volatile fatty acid (VFA) contents of the different sections of the GIT and whether these relate to altered bird performance.
2. An... Read More about The effects of exogenous xylanase supplementation on the in vivo generation of xylooligosaccharides and monosaccharides in broilers fed a wheat-based diet.

Sensory properties of supercritical CO2 fractions extracted from Magnum hop essential oil (2020)
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Dietz, C., Cook, D., Wilson, C., Marriott, R., & Ford, R. (2020). Sensory properties of supercritical CO2 fractions extracted from Magnum hop essential oil. Journal of the Institute of Brewing, 126(3), 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1002/jib.612

Hop oil fractions with unique sensory characteristics can be extracted from hop essential oil using green solvents such as supercritical (sc) CO2. These extracts meet clean label requirements and can be used to manage fluctuations in volatile composi... Read More about Sensory properties of supercritical CO2 fractions extracted from Magnum hop essential oil.