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Daniel Nsengumuremyi1,2,\* , Parise Adadi3 , Gavers K. Oppong4,5, Nadezhda V. Barakova1 and Elena F. Krivoshapkina2

1 Department of Food Biotechnology for Plant Origin Products, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

2 Institute of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technology, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

3 Department of Food Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

4 Department of Plant Sciences, Rothamsted Research, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

5 School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, United Kingdom

\*Address all correspondence to: nsedanco@yahoo.fr; nsedanco@gmail.com

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