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... BACKGROUND: Soybean (Glycine max) has been bred for thousands of years to produce seeds rich in protein for human and animal consumption, making them an appealing bioreactor for producing valuable recombinant proteins at high levels. However, the effects of expressing recombinant protein at high levels on bean physiology are not well understood. To address this, we investigated whether gene expres ...
... This study was conducted to determine the antioxidative and anti-inflammatory activities of non-fermented or Bacillus subtilis-fermented soybeans and sword beans (red and white). The total flavonoid content in both sword bean types was higher (1.9–2.5-fold) than that in soybeans. The total phenolic content in fermented red sword beans was 2.5-fold greater than that in non-fermented red sword beans ...
... Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) is highly polyphagous and is considered one of the most important crop pests, infesting over 100 crop species grown in field and greenhouse crops worldwide. The control of this mite is still based primarily on the use of synthetic chemical pesticides. In this study, 2,4-di-tert-butylphenol (DTBP) and ethyl oleate (EO) were investigated for their acaricidal, rep ...
Reynolds number; analysis of variance; beans; drag coefficient; grains; lentils; probability; seeds; water content
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... Aerodynamic properties of solid materials have long been used to convey and separate seeds and grains during post-harvest operations. The objective of this study was evaluation of the aerodynamic properties of green and red lentil seeds as a function of moisture content from 10 to 25% (w.b.). The results showed that as the moisture content increased from 10 to 25%, the terminal velocity of seeds i ...
... A protocol for genetic transformation of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. CIAP7247F via Agrobacterium tumefaciens was established. Primary green nodular calli and proliferative calli were used as target explants. Several factors such as Agrobacterium strain, plasmid, light conditions, bacterial concentration, co-cultivation period and type of callus were studied for optimization of the Agrobacterium-medi ...
... A two-season pot experiment was conducted on Phaseolus vulgaris L. plants to evaluate their response to 1.0 mM salicylic acid (SA) in a growing medium contaminated with 0.25 or 0.50 mM Cd2+ ions. Plants were sampled for growth measurements and chemical analyses 45 d after sowing, and to measure the yield of beans at the end of each experiment. Exposing plants to either concentration of Cd2+ ions r ...
analysis of variance; beans; cardboard; food quality; gas chromatography; mushrooms; odors; olfactometry; soymilk
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... The aim of this work was to develop an aromatic lexicon for evaluating different soymilks with two descriptive methods and an instrumental assistance. A list of 20 terms was generated by eight trained panelists through gas chromatography olfactometry and mass spectrum with free choice profiling for three different soymilk samples. During this phase, panelists randomly used words they were familiar ...
beans; breads; consumer acceptance; consumer preferences; data collection; principal component analysis; statistical models; variance; wheat
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... Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is one of the statistical models to estimate parameters or missing values. MLE approach in minimizing first serving order bias (FSOB) was investigated. Two different consumer studies with three wheat breads and nine bean products were performed. To test MLE, consumer ratings of the first product were eliminated from the data, and imputed by MLE. Regression imput ...
Food and Agriculture Organization; beans; data collection; databases; dietary surveys; eating habits; energy; equations; fish; food groups; food intake; issues and policy; linear models; milk; national surveys; nuts; prediction; processed meat; seafoods; seeds; vegetables; whole grain foods
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... Background: Accurate data on dietary habits are crucial for understanding impacts on disease and informing policy priorities. Nation-specific food balance sheets from the United Nations FAO provided the only available global dietary estimates but with uncertain validity. Objectives: We investigated how FAO estimates compared with nationally representative, individual-based dietary surveys from the ...
Ana Amélia F. Vilela; Thatiana de J.P. Pinto; Fernanda Rebelo; Camila Benaim; Jaqueline Lepsch; Christian Henrique Dias-Silva; Maria Beatriz T. Castro; Gilberto Kac
... Adherence to unhealthy dietary patterns may alter the risk of mental disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period.To analyze the association between prepregnancy dietary patterns and prospective variations on anxiety symptoms from midpregnancy to early postpartum.A prospective cohort of 207 healthy pregnant women was followed at 5 to 13, 20 to 26, and 30 to 36 gestational weeks, and once a ...
... The influence of the herbicides Afalon (active substance Linuron). Gesatop 50 (active substance simazine), Aretit (active substance dinoseb acetate) was tested concomitantly with two NPK fertilization levels on the crude lipid content and the fatty acids composition of field bean seeds. ...
... Resistance against Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV) in Phaseolus vulgaris is governed by six recessive resistance alleles at four loci. One of these alleles, bc-3, is able to protect P. vulgaris against all BCMV strains and against other potyviruses; bc-3 was identified as the eIF4E allele carrying mutated eukaryotic translation initiation factor gene. Here, we characterized a novel BCMV isolate 17 ...
... Two field trials were conducted during the summer and winter seasons of 2010 to evaluate the effect of biocontrol agents against Fusarium wilt of common bean. Treatments included six Trichoderma harzianum isolates applied in planting furrows at 1.2 × 10¹² conidia/ha, and one seed treatment with carboxin + thiram. Non-treated and infested plots served as control. Three T. harzianum isolates, CEN287 ...
... Flavor plays an important role in consumer satisfaction and influences further consumption of foods. Robusta coffee is rich in caffeine and phenolics and is undesirable for coffee connoisseurs compared to arabica coffee. The exogenous polyphenol oxidase (4,000 U/ml) was extracted from the fruiting bodies of Pleurotus florida otherwise referred as the oyster mushroom. The polyphenol oxidase (PPO) w ...
... What is causing the gills of shrimp in Georgia to turn black during the fall months? When shrimp are exposed to stressors such as contaminants, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, they may exhibit an immune response that causes the gill tissue to darken due to melanin production. This condition is called black gill. The number of shrimp with black gill varies by season. Shrimping inadvertently removes ...
rice; beans; primary productivity; soil temperature; radishes; leaf area index; watersheds; carbon; potatoes; seasonal variation; ecosystem respiration; carbon dioxide; cabbage; agroecosystems; air temperature; models; soil water; paddies; biomass; climatic factors; photosynthetically active radiation; landscapes; cropping systems; net ecosystem exchange; Vigna umbellata; diurnal variation; South Korea
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... The Asian agricultural landscape, which accounts for approximately 12.6% of the world’s agricultural land, is highly heterogeneous due to the multicultural cropping system. Information regarding CO2 exchange and carbon (C) balance of these agro-ecosystems is scarce, even though they are likely to immensely contribute to the global C budget. Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange (NEE) and Ecosystem respiratio ...
... Intercropping and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi application are thought to be useful means of minimizing the risks of agricultural production in many environments. Hence, this work was conducted to study and compare the effectiveness of AM fungi (Funneliformis mosseae) on growth, chlorophyll content, shoot water content, land equivalent ratio (LER) and essential oil (EO) yield and composition ...
... Common bean is one of the most important legume crops worldwide. Response to selection and success of hybridisation in common bean primarily depends on the nature and magnitude of genetic diversity present in the germplasm used. Germplasm comprising 4274 accessions originating from 58 countries were characterized for 22 phenotypic traits for two years. Genetic diversity for traits such as leaf len ...
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a good source of protein, vitamins, minerals and complex carbohydrates. The objective was to compare protein profile, including anti-nutrient proteins, and potential bioactive peptides of improved common bean cultivars grown in Mexico and Brazil. Bean protein isolates (BPI) were prepared from 15 common bean cultivars and hydrolyzed using pepsin/pancreatin. Th ...
agroecosystems; alkanes; alkenes; beans; biomarkers; carbon; carbon dioxide; carbon sequestration; chemotaxonomy; chronosequences; combustion; corn; cotton; crops; greenhouse gas emissions; highlands; intercropping; land restoration; land use change; leaves; lipids; organic matter; paddies; plant tissues; rice; sediments; staple foods; topsoil; wetlands; China; East China Sea; Yangtze River
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... Rice is the most important staple food globally and requires large growth areas kept under flooded paddy conditions, contributing significantly to microbial greenhouse gas emissions. Biogeochemical cycling in such agroecosystems has been investigated intensively but molecular biomarker studies are scarce. We conducted a chemotaxonomic investigation of wax alkanes differentiated for plant tissue (l ...