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Properties of Amylases of Coffee Berries Borer, Hypothenemus Hampei (Ferrari) — Coleoptera: Scolytidae

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In the studies directed to combat and protect crops from insects attacking plants, it is important to have a better knowledge of its biochemistry, specially on the most important enzymes involved in digestive processes so that by knowing these enzymes a strategy for allowing blockade or interruption of their function could be designed, that is, to produce an inhibition addressed specifically against this enzyme (Blanco et al., 1996).

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  1. Disciplina de Entomología, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de Café Cenicafe, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia

    C. P. Martínez Díaz & M. T. González García

  2. Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia

    A. Valencia Jiménez

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  1. Coffee Research Program, Agronomic Institute of Parana State (IAPAR),, C.P. 481, CEP86001-710, Londrina, PR, Brazil

    Tumoru Sera

  2. Laboratorio de Processos Biotecnologicos, Departamento Engenharia Quimica, Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR), 81531-970, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Carlos R. Soccol

  3. Laboratoire de Microbiologie IRD, IFR-BAIM, Universités de Provence, Case 925, ESIL, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France

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Díaz, C.P.M., Jiménez, A.V., García, M.T.G., Bustillo, A.E. (2000). Properties of Amylases of Coffee Berries Borer, Hypothenemus Hampei (Ferrari) — Coleoptera: Scolytidae. In: Sera, T., Soccol, C.R., Pandey, A., Roussos, S. (eds) Coffee Biotechnology and Quality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1068-8_27

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