“…Blas-Yañez & Thomé-Ortiz (ESCALANTE et al, 2004;TOVAR-ROBLES et al, 2011) to infer its usefulness in gastrointestinal disorders (VILLAREAL-MORALES et al, 2019;MIRAMONTES-CORONA et al, 2019), and develop functional foods (RIVERA et al, 2010;FRÍAS et al, 2016;GILES-GÓMEZ et al, 2016); ii) agricultural biotechnology for genetic improvement (MONJA-MIO et al, 2019), in vitro micropropagation (SILOS-ESPINO et al, 2007) and obtaining active components of industrial interest (PUENTE-GARZA et al, 2015 ). iii) Energy biotechnology to obtain cellulose (NAVA-CRUZ et al, 2015), bioethanol (DAVIS et al, 2011;HOLTUM et al, 2011;LÁINEZ et al, 2019), biogas, and hydrogen (RIVERA-VARGAS et al, 2016), light biomaterials (NARVÁEZ-ZAPATA & SÁNCHEZ-TEYER, 2009) and as an adherent of composite polymers (HAQUE et al, 2016).…”