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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 ...
... The aim of this study was to group samples of cacao collected in Southern of Mexico. For this, several physical bean variables (weight, length, width and bean circumference), chemical (moisture, ash, fat, protein, fatty acids) in addition to polyphenol content and antioxidant capacity (ABTS method) were measured. Forty-five cacao samples derived from plants with Criollo phenotype, and a control sa ...
... The hill ecosystem of Northeastern Himalayas is suitable for organic farming due to negligible use of fertilizer (<12 kg ha⁻¹) and agrochemicals, abundance of organic manure, especially plant biomass, and favourable climatic conditions for diverse crops. For successful organic farming, efficient cropping systems and organic amendments are to be identified to sustain soil health on one hand and pro ...
... The present study aimed to evaluate some plant extracts from Plectranthus tenuiflorus , Azadirachta indica , Clerodendrum inerme , Schinus terebinthifolius and Mirabilis jalapa as antiviral materials against Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV) in bean plants. The results showed that all the tested plant extracts were effective in reducing the number of local lesions formed by BCMV. The mixing of P. te ...
... The aim of this study was to determine the effect of different roasting conditions, including temperature, humidity, and roasting air velocity on acrylamide contents in roasted Robusta coffee. In addition, acrylamide concentrations were correlated with the degradation of coffee bean polyphenols and its antioxidant activity. In the process of roasting in a quarter-technological scale apparatus used ...
ambient temperature; beans; carbon dioxide; climatic factors; cost effectiveness; exports; farms; global positioning systems; grains; harvest date; instrumentation; monitoring; postharvest losses; rain; relative humidity; roads; soybeans; trailers; water content; Brazil
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... In Brazil, over 60% of soybeans are transported by truck from farms to processing, storage and export terminals. Poor road conditions, improper truck maintenance, overloading, and inefficient transfer of grain are major causes of transportation losses. With 1.7millionkm of roads and only 20% of which is paved, there is an urgent need to exploit opportunities for reducing postharvest losses from tr ...
... Caffeine is a metabolite of great economic importance, especially in coffee, where it influences the sensorial and physiological impacts of the beverage. Caffeine metabolism in the Coffea species begins with the degradation of purine nucleotides through three specific N-methyltransferases: XMT, MXMT and DXMT. A comparative analysis was performed to clarify the molecular reasons behind differences ...
... Phomopsis longicolla is the primary cause of Phomopsis seed decay in soybean. This disease severely affects soybean seed quality by reducing seed viability and oil content, altering seed composition, and increasing frequencies of moldy and/or split beans. It is one of the most economically important soybean diseases. Here, we report the de novo assembled draft genome sequence of the P. longicolla ...
European Union; beans; biotechnology; chocolate; flavorings; markets; mass spectrometry; quality control; snack foods; stable isotopes; vanilla beans; vanillin
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... An easy extraction method that permits the use of a liquid chromatography-isotopic ratio mass spectrometry (LC-IRMS) system to evaluate δ13C of vanillin in chocolate products and industrial flavorings is presented. The method applies the determination of stable isotopes of carbon to discriminate between natural vanillin from vanilla beans and vanillin from other sources (mixtures from beans, synt ...
... The primary factor that influences release of zinc (Zn) for plants is the rhizosphere. However, information about Zn-desorption characteristics in the rhizosphere is limited. A greenhouse experiment was performed to determine Zn-release characteristics in the bulk and the rhizosphere soils using a rhizobox. The kinetics of Zn release was determined by successive extraction with diethylenetriaminep ...
... High temperature drying is commonly used for the production of durum wheat pasta because it induces superior product quality and reduces process costs. In respect to gluten-free noodles no information about high temperature drying is available. Aim of this study was to investigate the influence of high temperature drying on gluten-free pasta properties. Two types of gluten-free pasta (one amaranth ...
... Heavy metals are major environmental pollutant when they present in high concentration in soil and have toxic effects on growth, nodulation and nitrogen fixation of legumes and development of plants. Mercury stress triggers disturbances in cellular structure, and metabolismn is poorly understood. The response of seedling growth and nodulation of Vigna radiata (L) Wilczek to different concentration ...
... Seed kernel extracts of China berry (Melia azedarach) against oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis) and tomato fruit borer (Helicoverpa armigera), and commercial neem formulations containing azadirachtin (Biofree-I ® and Thai neem 111 ®) against the legume pod borer (Maruca vitrata) were tested in Taiwan and Thailand to confirm their effects on oviposition, feeding, growth and development. Vari ...
... Endophytic bacteria play a key role in the biocontrol of phytopathogenic microorganisms. In this study, genotypic diversity was analyzed via repetitive element PCR (rep-PCR) of endophytic isolates of the phylum Actinobacteria that were previously collected from leaves of cultivars of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Considerable variability was observed, which has not been reported previously for ...
analysis of variance; angle of repose; beans; cherries; coffee beans; color; engineering; experimental design; farms; harvesting; porosity; Indonesia
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... Harvesting practices in most coffee farms in Indonesia, due to some reasons, have resulted not only red coffee cherries but also green, yellow and deep red cherries. This is suspected to be the cause of low quality coffee beans encountered by traders. This research aimed to characterize some engineering properties of coffee beans produced from wet process in respect to different colors of coffee c ...
... Changes in expressions of up- and downstream thiol cascade were studied in leaves of Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. VL-63 and its mutant, pvsod1 (deficient in superoxide dismutase activity) under 50 μM sodium arsenate (As), As + L-buthionine-sulfoximine (BSO) and As + BSO + Sodium hydrosulfide (NaHS)-treatments for 10 days. Main objective was to investigate the functional relationship between hydrogen ...
maternal effect; cultivars; testa; beans; colorimetry; hybrids; parents; Phaseolus vulgaris; field experimentation; color; cranberries; genetic variation; heritability; Andes region; Brazil
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... Seed coat colour of bean seeds is decisive for acceptance of a cultivar. The objectives of this research were to determine whether there is maternal effect for “L”, a* and b* colour parameters in Middle American and Andean bean seeds; to obtain estimates of heritability and gain with selection for “L”, a* and b* values; and select recombinants with the seed coat colour required by the market deman ...
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) can supply all of the iron that humans require for metabolism. Also, it fixes atmospheric nitrogen (N ₂) in symbiosis with rhizobia. In order to analyze the relation between phosphorus (P) and iron (Fe) elements in nodules and their roles for the plant N ₂-dependent growth, six common bean recombinant inbred lines (RIL) of the cross of BAT477 and DOR364 were ino ...
... The objective was to evaluate the effect of bioactive peptide fractions from de-hulled hard-to-cook (HTC) bean on enzyme targets of type-2 diabetes and oxidative stress. Protein isolates from Pinto Durango and Negro 8025 beans were hydrolyzed (120min) with either alcalase® or bromelain and separated into five peptide fractions (<1, 1–3.5, 3.5–5, 5–10, and >10kDa) using an ultrafiltration membrane ...
beans; cell communication; chives; diallyl disulfide; dose response; durians; essential oils; fluorescence; foods; fruits; garlic; green onions; humans; hydrogen sulfide; leeks; oils; South East Asia
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... Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is a gaseous signalling molecule with multiple biological functions in the human body. Previous research demonstrates that diallyl trisulphide (DATS) and diallyl disulphide (the two major compounds of garlic oil) can be metabolized to generate H2S in biological conditions and modulate cell signalling. In this paper, a fluorescent method for quantification of H2S releasing c ...
analysis of variance; beans; cultivars; genotype-environment interaction; grain yield; sowing; Brazil
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... In the common bean crop in Brazil, the requirement of the value for cultivation and use trials is that these experiments must be conducted over two years in three locations per region. Information in regard to the necessary number of years to ensure precision in cultivar recommendation and the influence of evaluated years in the estimation of the GE interaction are still scarce. Using grain yield ...
... Lactobacillus plantarum ZDY 2013, a novel strain isolated from Chinese traditional fermented acid beans, was systematically evaluated for its survival capacity under stress conditions (pH, bile salt, simulated gastrointestinal tract, and antibiotics), production of exopolysaccharide and antagonism against 8 pathogens. Its effect on mice gut microbiota was also investigated by quantitative PCR and ...
... The effect of soil solarization and Trichoderma harzianum on induced resistance to grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) and powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii) was studied. Plants were grown in soils pretreated by solarization, T. harzianum T39 amendment or both, and then their leaves were inoculated with the pathogens. There was a significant reduction in grey mould in cucumber, strawberry, bean and to ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; Sclerotinia sclerotiorum; beans; cultivars; dominant genes; gene pool; germplasm; markets; Andes region
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... White mold caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary is a devastating disease of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in cool and wet production regions of the Americas and elsewhere. Partial resistance is found in common bean, wild bean, and Phaseolus species of the secondary gene pool such as P. coccineus L. The objectives were to determine (i) the inheritance of white mold resistance in ...
... The efficacy of 20 organic and inorganic sodium salts, and two synthetic fungicides against eight bean root rot pathogens—Fusarium equiseti, F. proliferatum, F. semitectum, F. solani f. sp. phaseoli, F. verticillioides, Rhizoctonia solani AG4–HG I, Macrophomina phaseolina and Sclerotium rolfsii—were evaluated in this study. Accordingly to preliminary in vitro tests, only captan, benzoate and metab ...
... Agrobacterium sp. 10C2 is a nonpathogenic and non-symbiotic nodule-endophyte strain isolated from root nodules of Phaseolus vulgaris. The effect of this strain on nodulation, plant growth and rhizosphere bacterial communities of P. vulgaris is investigated under seminatural conditions. Inoculation with strain 10C2 induced an increase in nodule number (+54 %) and plant biomass (+16 %). Grains also ...
... The effects of co‐inoculation of Rhizoctonia solani and Colletotrichum lindemuthianum or Uromyces appendiculatus at different inoculum levels were studied on the disease dynamics and on the growth of bean plants under greenhouse conditions. Bean seeds were sown in R. solani‐infested soil. Additional experiments in which seedlings were transplanted to infested soil were also carried out. Conidial s ...
... We investigated the role of phenazines and cyclic lipopeptides (CLPs) (orfamides and sessilins), antagonistic metabolites produced by Pseudomonas sp. CMR12a, in the biological control of damping‐off disease on Chinese cabbage (Brassica chinensis) caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG 2‐1 and root rot disease on bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) caused by R. solani AG 4‐HGI. A Pseudomonas mutant that only pro ...
... Pre-Hispanic Andean societies depended economically on the cultivation of maize (Zea mays), the main staple food crop in the region after its introduction from highland Mexico. Here we report new data from residue analysis of potsherds recovered in archaeological sites in western Tinogasta, Catamarca province, Argentina, ca. 3rd to 16th centuries AD. Molecular and isotopic (δ¹³C values) compositio ...
... The main purpose of this work was to analyse the morphological, phenological and agronomical variability among common bean local populations from The National Centre for Plant Genetic Resources, Polish Genebank, in order to know the relation among them, and to identify potentially useful accessions for future production and breeding. A considerable genotypic variation for number of seeds per plant ...
Shannon H. Gaffney; Anders Abelmann; Jennifer S. Pierce; Meghan E. Glynn; John L. Henshaw; Lauren A. McCarthy; Jason T. Lotter; Monty Liong; Brent L. Finley
... Over the last decade, concerns have been raised about potential respiratory health effects associated with occupational exposure to the flavoring additives diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione. Both of these diketones are also natural components of many foods and beverages, including roasted coffee. To date, there are no published studies characterizing workplace exposures to these diketones during comme ...