A fundamental pillar in the present and the future is the agrobiotechnology. Globalization, development and new technologies play an important role in today’s world, but are presenting to society with a series of challenges that we must face: climate change, population overgrowth or the presence of fake news could be an example. In order to overcome them, […]
DAO… histamine… diet… and migraine: these four words have an intimate relationship. To know how the deficit of the digestive enzyme Diamine Oxidase (DAO) gives rise to symptoms such as migraine or gastrointestinal disorders, we must first understand the role played by histamine acquired by diet in our body. The relevance of this relationship lies […]
The fungicides, unlike natural biopesticides extracted from plants, are chemical compounds used commonly until now to control fungi that affect crops. Many of these compounds are synthetic organic substances with a wide range of toxicity and persistent in the environment. Adding relevance to the scope and problematic of their use, it is applied annually in the world thousands of tons of fungicides to […]
Probiotics contain microorganisms that naturally inhabit our body in terms of health and that allow us to develop a large part of our vital functions. According to the Scientific ISAPP (International Association of probiotics and prebiotics) «a probiotic should be alive when delivered, survive the gastric environment, having spent a controlled assessment to document the benefits on the health of the host receiver, be […]
Symborg reduces the negative effects of water reused and/or highly saline soils, as it is through the employment of their organisms are improving the water potential and stomatal conductance of the crops in these conditions of environmental stress for plants. Scientific tests carried out in collaboration with the Department of Irrigation from the center of Soil […]
Natural additives and their extracts have the ability to protect fresh meat from protein and lipid oxidation. They have antibacterial activities and can extend the shelf life of meat products. In fact, in response to the increasing consumers’ mistrust in synthetic additives, the meat industry is focused on searching sources of natural antioxidants, which is expected […]
Nowadays, meat’s demand is so great that in its consequence there have been strong ecological damages, such as deforestation or the increase of methane levels. We also can’t overlook animal abuse in the meat industries. All of this increase the motivation to find a strategy that cooperates to combat all these damages, but its name […]
Even if your closest experience with agriculture is your local grocery, is very likely that you have bumped with such fancy terms as «biostimulant» or «biofertilizer» along your daily roams around the web. It’s not surprise that this concepts are being the talk of the town: consumer’s tangible concern about the origin and quality of the […]
Winds of change are blowing through the spanish agrotechnological landscape. The last decade has been marked as an entrepreneurship hotspot for fresh ideas as a way to find their own place in the sector. Those ideas are related to a biotechnological approach to the current century’s agricultural problems, such as desertification or the search of a […]
Plagues represent an increasing concern for the farming industry, more exposed to invasive species each day. One example is Xylella fasidiosa, originally from northern California, or the red palm weevil (Rhynchoporus ferrugineus), originally from tropical Asia. These plagues constitute a serious environmental hazard, and efforts are put to find sustainable solutions such as biopesticides: biological […]