Abstract: Surface treating and/or modifying compositions, for example cosmetic or pharmaceutical or plant protective compositions or domestic care compositions comprise a guar protein extract, or derivative thereof, such guar protein extract comprising at least 65% by weight of proteins and are particularly suitable as surface treating and/or modifying agents, wherein these surfaces are, for example, the skin, hairs, domestic care and textile surfaces and plant leaf surfaces.

Abstract: A variety of products are obtained from modified guar protein extracts, for example, cosmetic or pharmacological or plant protective compositions or domestic care agents containing such products; these are particularly suitable for treating and/or modifying and/or coating the skin, hair, hard and textile surfaces and, notably, plant leaf surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention relates in particular to proteins, coding nucleic acid sequences for same, vectors comprising said coding sequences, a method for producing said proteins, and an oligosaccharide hydrolysis method using same. In particular, the invention relates to the protein of sequence SEQ ID no. 1. The present invention can be applied to the recycling of bio-natural resources formed by organisms and microorganisms including ulvans, in particular green algae.

Abstract: The present invention notably relates to ulvan lyases, to nucleic acid sequences coding for these ulvan lyases, to vectors comprising these coding sequences, to a method of manufacturing these ulvan lyases, as well as to a method of degrading ulvans using these ulvan lyases and applicable applications to the degradation products of the ulvans. The ulvan lyases of the present invention, or ulvanolytic protein, are notably defined as proteins of 30 or 46 kD comprising the following four sequences in their peptide sequence: PNDPNLK, LLEVGNTGTFGSTGS, DLANPDNV and WNLPE.

Abstract: The present invention notably relates to ulvan lyases, to nucleic acid sequences coding for these ulvan lyases, to vectors comprising these coding sequences, to a method of manufacturing these ulvan lyases, as well as to a method of degrading ulvans using these ulvan lyases and applicable applications to the degradation products of the ulvans. The ulvan lyases of the present invention, or ulvanolytic protein, are notably defined as proteins of 30 or 46 kD comprising the following four sequences in their peptide sequence: PNDPNLK, LLEVGNTGTFGSTGS, DLANPDNV and WNLPE.

Abstract: Modified and insoluble starches are utilized for eliminating natural organic substances/contaminants from liquids and in particular from liquids used for food applications, such as drinking water, beverages, fruit juices or syrups, as well as natural water, industrial process water, or wastewater.

Abstract: The invention related to the use of oligo-apiogalacturonan compounds, particularly extracted from aquatic plants of the Lemna or Zostera Genus, as an agent for stimulating the defence and resistance reactions in a plant, in particular an ornamental plant or a plant of agricultural interest, against biotic an/or abiotic stresses. The invention further relates to a method for stimulating the natural defence reactions of a plant or a portion or a plant against biotic and/or abiotic stresses that includes applying at least one oligo-apiogalacturonan compound in a liquid or solid composition on said plant or a portion of a plant or in the environment of said plant.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel thermoplastic polymer comprising at least one polyalkylene oxide block. It relates to a process for preparing the thermoplastic polymer and to an application of this polymer as a hydrophilicity and/or antistatic modifier, especially in polyamide compositions. These compositions are particularly suitable for the manufacture of yarns, fibres and filaments.

Abstract: Surface treating and/or modifying compositions, for example cosmetic or pharmaceutical or plant protective compositions or domestic care compositions contain a guar protein extract, or derivative thereof, such guar protein extract containing at least 65% by weight of proteins and are particularly suitable as surface treating and/or modifying agents, wherein these surfaces are, for example, the skin, hairs, domestic care and textile surfaces and plant leaf surfaces.

Abstract: A variety of products are obtained from modified guar protein extracts, for example, cosmetic or pharmacological or plant protective compositions or domestic care agents containing such products; these are particularly suitable for treating and/or modifying and/or coating the skin, hair, hard and textile surfaces and, notably, plant leaf surfaces.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of dry and compacted aquatic grasses containing zosteric acid and/or zosterin, as a support for soil-less cultivation. It also relates to a support for cultivation consisting at least in part of such aquatic grasses.

Abstract: Water contaminated with anions of heavy metals, e.g., arsenic values, is purified by contacting same with a composition containing at least one polysaccharide, such as starches or vegetable gums.

Abstract: Unwanted natural and synthetic organic impurities are removed from liquid media contaminated therewith, e.g., liquids and beverages intended for human consumption, or industrial/wastewaters, by introducing into such media a thus effective amount of an optionally modified/insoluble cationic vegetable gum containing one or more cationic or cationizable substituents, maintaining the cationic vegetable gum in such liquid medium until the organic impurities are sorbed thereon, and thence recovering the vegetable gum/sorbed impurities therefrom, whereby purifying the liquid medium.

Abstract: Modified and insoluble starches are utilized for eliminating natural organic substances/contaminants from liquids and in particular from liquids used for food applications, such as drinking water, beverages, fruit juices or syrups, as well as natural water, industrial process water, or wastewater.

Abstract: Water-soluble or water-dispersible matrix, made of a polysaccharide modified under an electron beam with an organosilicon compound chosen from organosilanes and/or polyorganosiloxanes having at least one functional group capable of reacting and/or interacting with said polysaccharide. Use of the matrix as stabilizing agent in the preparation of simple emulsions, in particular of the water-in-oil type, or multiple emulsions, in particular of the water-in-oil-in-water type.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic compositions comprising a thermoplastic polyamide matrix and at least one additive which modifies the interaction between the matrix and an agent. The purpose of the invention is to provide an additive which modifies the interaction between a copolyamide-type thermoplastic copolyamide matrix and at least one agent. The aforementioned additive, which comprises at least one hyperbranched functionalised polymer, is not compatible with the matrix. Moreover, said additive can be used for the controlled modification of the interaction between the thermoplastic copolyamide and an internal or external chemical agent. Preferably, the composition does not contain hyperbranched polymers which produce therein a reduction in the molar mass of matrix M which is greater than or equal to 7% in relation to a sample composition which comprises matrix M but does not contain hyperbranched polymer additive(s). Said mass measurement is taken preferably using a determined protocol P.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel emulsions comprising a dendritic polymer. The invention also relates to the use of a dendritic polymer as an emulsification agent. The inventive emulsions are suitable for use in the cosmetics, detergents, paint and coatings industries.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for the treatment of articles made of textile fibres which is intended to be used for washing and/or rinsing, drying in a tumble dryer or ironing articles made of textile fibres comprising a dendritic polymer (in particular a hyperbranched polyamide). The invention also relates to the use, in a composition for the treatment of articles made of textile fibres which is intended to be used for washing and/or rinsing, drying in a tumble dryer or ironing articles made of textile fibres, of a dendritic polymer (in particular hyperbranched polyamide) as antiwrinkling agent or ease-of-ironing agent.

Abstract: Water-soluble or water-dispersible matrix, made of a polysaccharide modified under an electron beam with an organosilicon compound chosen from organosilanes and/or polyorganosiloxanes having at least one functional group capable of reacting and/or interacting with said polysaccharide. Use of the matrix as stabilizing agent in the preparation of simple emulsions, in particular of the water-in-oil type, or multiple emulsions, in particular of the water-in-oil-in-water type.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermoplastic compositions comprising a thermoplastic polyamide matrix and at least one additive which modifies the interaction between the matrix and an agent. The purpose of the invention is to provide an additive which modifies the interaction between a copolyamide-type thermoplastic copolyamide matrix and at least one agent. The aforementioned additive, which comprises at least one hyperbranched functionalised polymer, is not compatible with the matrix. Moreover, said additive can be used for the controlled modification of the interaction between the thermoplastic copolyamide and an internal or external chemical agent. Preferably, the composition does not contain hyperbranched polymers which produce therein a reduction in the molar mass of matrix M which is greater than or equal to 7% in relation to a sample composition which comprises matrix M but does not contain hyperbranched polymer additive(s). Said mass measurement is taken preferably using a determined protocol P.