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Chapulines and Food consumption
BIOSENSORS: IN SEARCH OF PLANT MICROORGANISMS AND CONTAMINANTS
Licenciatura en Biotecnología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla,
Licenciatura en Biotecnología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla,
Abstract
in the environmental and agriculture sectors due to the losses in crop production. Although they are not emerging problems, their age has led the scientific community to search for new identification strategies, finding themselves with biotechnology in the development of biological-based technologies that allow the detection of contaminants and pathogens present in plants in a fast and reliable way. Biosensors have allowed us to establish a bridge between the natural and technological worlds with the purpose of generating alternatives to this and other problems such as clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, food quality control, and environmental monitoring. The variety of biological elements offers, according to their properties, selective information about the component to analyze. Inside the agricultural sector, the most commonly used are antibodies, aptamers, or nucleic acids, for the detection of pathogens like bacteria, fungi, and viruses, and enzymatic ones for plant contaminants. Due to the sensitivity that they present, they also require certain conditions to be able to perform a correct operation, which also makes it a limitation for environments that are in constant change. In this context, a review is made about the different advantages and disadvantages of the types of biosensors and their applications in the detection of components of agricultural interest, as well as an example of the new advances developed for this sector.
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