Remoción de Cd y Zn de una corriente acuosa de una empresa minera usando humedales artificiales

Cadmium and zinc removal from a mining reprocessing aqueous stream using artificial wetlands

VIANEY RUIZ LÓPEZ MARIA DEL REFUGIO GONZALEZ SANDOVAL JOSE ANTONIO BARRERA GODINEZ GABRIELA ELEONORA MOELLER CHAVEZ MERCEDES ESPERANZA RAMIREZ CAMPEROS MARIA DEL CARMEN DURAN DOMINGUEZ (2010)

Los metales provenientes de diferentes procesos industriales presentes en efluentes pueden contaminar el medio ambiente causando daños como la muerte de flora y fauna, y/o enfermedades en los seres humanos. En la actualidad, varias investigaciones se han enfocado a encontrar un tratamiento eficiente para este tipo de contaminantes, sin embargo, sigue sin solucionarse el problema. Entre las opciones estudiadas se mencionan los humedales artificiales, los cuales se ha comprobado que son eficientes en la remoción de metales y otros contaminantes presentes en las aguas residuales de diversas industrias. Por ello, esta investigación se centró en probar la eficiencia de remoción de Cd y Zn contenidos en un agua residual de una industria minera, utilizando sistemas a escala de laboratorio que simulan un humedal artificial. Se utilizaron ocho reactores de PVC empacados con escoria volcánica (tezontle). Se adaptaron plantas acuáticas o hidrofitas (Typha latifolia) a las condiciones de laboratorio y se realizó el seguimiento analítico del proceso de remoción de metales, cuantificando las concentraciones de cadmio y zinc en los efluentes, así como también realizando la medición de pH y DQOsoluble. Los resultados obtenidos muestran valores de remoción del orden del 90% en los sistemas con plantas y del 40% en los sistemas sin plantas, para ambos metales.

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Minería Contaminación del agua Humedales artificiales Remoción de contaminantes INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA

Transcriptome mining provides insights into cell wall metabolism and fiber lignification in Agave tequilana Weber

Luis Fernando Maceda Lopez ELSA BEATRIZ GONGORA CASTILLO Enrique Ibarra-Laclette DALIA C. MORAN VELAZQUEZ AMARANTA GIRON RAMIREZ Matthieu Bourdon José Luis Villalpando Aguilar Gabriela Chavez-Calvillo Toomer John Tang Parastoo Azadi Jorge Manuel Santamaría Fernández Itzel López-Rosas Mercedes G Lopez June Simpson FULGENCIO ALATORRE COBOS (2022)

Resilience of growing in arid and semiarid regions and a high capacity of accumulating sugar-rich biomass with low lignin percentages have placed Agave species as an emerging bioen-ergy crop. Although transcriptome sequencing of fiber-producing agave species has been explored, molecular bases that control wall cell biogenesis and metabolism in agave species are still poorly understood. Here, through RNAseq data mining, we reconstructed the cellulose biosynthesis pathway and the phenylpropanoid route producing lignin monomers in A. tequilana, and evaluated their expression patterns in silico and experimentally. Most of the orthologs retrieved showed differential expression levels when they were analyzed in different tissues with contrasting cellulose and lignin accumulation. Phylogenetic and structural motif analyses of putative CESA and CAD proteins allowed to identify those potentially involved with secondary cell wall formation. RT-qPCR assays revealed enhanced expression levels of AtqCAD5 and AtqCESA7 in parenchyma cells associated with extraxylary fibers, suggesting a mechanism of formation of sclerenchyma fibers in Agave similar to that reported for xylem cells in model eudicots. Overall, our results provide a framework for un-derstanding molecular bases underlying cell wall biogenesis in Agave species studying mechanisms involving in leaf fiber development in monocots. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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AGAVE CELL WALLS LIGNOCELLULOSE CAD PROTEIN CESA PROTEIN SCLERENCHYMA BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA GENÉTICA GENÉTICA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS GENÉTICA MOLECULAR DE PLANTAS

Revisiting the phylogeny and taxonomy of the Pithecellobium clade (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae) with new generic circumscriptions

Iván Tamayo-Cen Benjamin Torke JOSE ENRIQUE LOPEZ CONTRERAS GERMAN CARNEVALI FERNANDEZ CONCHA Ivón Mercedes Ramírez Morillo Lilia Lorena Can Itza RODRIGO STEFANO DUNO (2022)

We present the most complete molecular phylogeny to date of the Pithecellobium clade of subfamily Caesalpinioideae. This neotropical group was informally recognised (as the Pithecellobium alliance) at the end of the 20th century by Barneby and Grimes (1996) and includes five genera and 33 species distributed from the southern United States and Caribbean Islands to north-eastern South America. Our aims were to further test the monophyly of the group and its genera and to identify sister group relationships within and amongst the genera. A phylogenetic analysis of nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences (ITS and ETS) was performed. The results provide further support for the monophyly of the Pithecellobium clade. The genera Ebenopsis, Pithecellobium and Sphinga were strongly supported as monophyletic. Havardia and Painteria were found to be non-monophyletic, prompting their re-circumscriptions and the description of two new genera: Gretheria and Ricoa. New combinations are made for the three species transferred to the new genera. © Iván Tamayo-Cen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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FABACEAE INGEAE INGOID CLADE MIMOSOID NEW WORLD PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATIC TAXONOMY BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA VEGETAL (BOTÁNICA) TAXONOMÍA VEGETAL TAXONOMÍA VEGETAL