
PhD Culinary Scholarships funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and provided by the Wales European Funding Office (WEFO) in the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG). This project aims to find new antimicrobial agents to register the help of bees. Honey antibacterial effects have been observed for more than a century and has been widely used as an additional therapy for wound dressings. Activity of honey is due to various factors including the nature of hyper-osmotic sugar, hydrogen peroxide production by natural enzymatic reactions, metabolic byproducts, such as Methylglyoxal (MGO), peptides derived bees and chemical-plant donated by the plant. http://www.callforpapersinfo.com
http://thescholarshipprogramme.com Bio-chemical contribution to the overall antimicrobial activity of certain honey will depend on the nature of plants visited by bees.Culinary Scholarships As an example of New Zealand Manuka honey is produced by allowing the bees to forage on the Manuka bush (Leptospermum scoparium) plants that produce compounds called Leptospermone which have strong antibacterial activity.Culinary Scholarships To identify other potential bio-chemical antibacterial we propose to screen the honey produced by bees that eat plants of various habitats England.
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Scholarship Application Deadline: July 1, 2011
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