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... The rheological performance of bacterial cellulose and carboxymethyl cellulose (BC:CMC) dry formulations with mass ratios of 1:1, 1:0.75 and 1:0.5 was compared with that of a commercial xanthan gum. The zero-shear viscosity and the yield stress of these hydrocolloids, at concentrations ranging from 0.001% to 0.5% (w/w), were determined by fitting the Cross and Herschel-Bulkley models to the flow c ...
Sulafa B.H. Hashim; Haroon Elrasheid Tahir; Li Lui; Junjun Zhang; Xiaodong Zhai; Amer Ali Mahdi; Nosyba A. Ibrahim; Gustav Komla Mahunu; Mahmoud M. Hassan; Zou Xiaobo; Shi Jiyong
... Innovative pH-colorimetric sensor film was fabricated from agar and methylcellulose matrix (AM) with various concentrations of sunflower wax (SFW) (6%, 9%, 12%, and 15% w/w) combined with purple Chinese cabbage (CPC) anthocyanins for tracking chicken breast freshness. A bio-composition film AM/CPC with (hydrophobic) SFW exhibited significant color variations in acidic pH level of (2–6) and a sligh ...
... Nanoparticle-based bigel is a miscellaneous emulsion system consisting of two immiscible gels, combining Pickering and bigel mechanism, which resulted in enhanced technological and functional outputs. The edible Spirulina platensis protein nanoparticle (SPNP)-based bigel with double network structure was prepared by homogenizing a hydrogel and an oleogel made from xanthan gum (XG) and sunflower wa ...
Helianthus annuus; algorithms; combine harvesters; food policy; grain yield; models; prediction; remote sensing; satellites; time series analysis; yield monitoring; Hungary
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... Accurate estimates and predictions of sunflower crop yields at the pixel and field level are critically important for farmers, service dealers, and policymakers. Several models based on remote sensing data have been developed in yield assessment, but their robustness—especially in small field scale areas—needs to be examined. Here we aim to develop a robust methodology for estimation/prediction of ...
Helianthus annuus; anchovies; chemometrics; discriminant analysis; docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; fish oils; food chemistry; gas chromatography; linseed oil; off odors; oxidation; vegetables
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... Fish oil develops particular off-odors, mainly fishy odor, from the oxidation of its characteristic fatty acids, docosahexaenoic (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic (EPA). Anchovy oil (AO) was taken as representative of fish oils. This was compared to three vegetable oils with different fatty acid compositions, i.e. camellia, sunflower and linseed oil, and differential volatile compounds were identified by ...
... This study aimed to evaluate the impact of high-intensity ultrasound (HIUS) and types of oil on the emulsion of egg white proteins (EWPs). Dispersions (2%, w/v) of (EWPs) with (corn, sunflower, and soybean) oils were homogenized and then sonicated at 320 -watts for 4, 12 and 20 min. Emulsions were described by microscopy, ζ-potential, particle size, rheology, viscosity, and interfacial tension. Th ...
... The increasing use of wet texturized plant proteins as meat substitutes requires a characterization of their functional properties, especially in terms of pH‐behavior when being mixed with meat proteins to create so‐called hybrid products. In this study, a minced model system containing pork meat, curing salt, and various amounts (0–100 wt%) of wet extruded proteins from pea (Pea I, II), pumpkin ( ...
... Herbicides play key roles in agriculture. Aclonifen is a diphenyl ether herbicide that is widely used for sunflower, potato, corn, and wheat crops. Since it has a long half-life, it is considered persistent and can easily accumulate in the environment. Therefore, livestock and humans are at risk of exposure to aclonifen. Importantly, aclonifen is toxic to several mammals such as rats, mice, and do ...
... Organic side-streams and agricultural wastes represent a big pool of untapped and underrated resources which could be efficiently exploited for insect rearing. We evaluated the suitability of eleven agricultural by-products, stemming from the production of cotton, sugar beet, sunflower, barley, oats, peas and vetch, for the development of larvae of the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor. In a first ...
... As plant breeding is a very complex and sophisticated process, it is of paramount importance to understand the nature and magnitude of interdependence between specific plant features. Using PCA and correlation analysis, this study examined the variability in features of two types of inbred sunflower lines and determined its connection with their seed yields. The experiment was conducted as a rando ...
... Agrocinopine C is a small molecule found in crown gall tumours induced by pathogenic Agrobacterium radiobacter carrying the tumour-inducing plasmid pTi Bo542. This phosphodiester opine was isolated (at 0.02 g/100 g fresh wt.) from sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) galls. It is structurally related to agrocinopine A and is a glucose-2-phosphodiester linked to the C6-hydroxy-methyl group of the gluco ...
Actinobacteria; Chloroflexi; Firmicutes; Gemmatimonadetes; Helianthus annuus; Planctomycetes; Proteobacteria; bacterial communities; data collection; genes; genomic libraries; metagenomics; plant growth; soil; South Africa
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... This article presents dataset on the bacterial community structure associated with rhizospheric sunflower soils from Lichtenburg, South Africa. The Illumina Miseq sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicon unveiled the bacterial community diversities as well as generated metagenomic library from sunflower rhizospheric soils to understand the diversities and distribution. The metagenome contained a total ...
... Verticillium wilt is a widespread soil‐borne vascular disease of crops. Hypovirulent strains of pathogens show potential in providing cross‐protection against Verticillium wilt. To identify metabolites associated with the induction of resistance, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry‐based metabolomic technology was used to screen for differential metabolites induced by virulent (Verticillium dahli ...
... As the central carbon uptake pathway in photosynthetic cells, the Calvin–Benson cycle is among the most important biochemical cycles for life on Earth. A carbon flux of anaplerotic origin (i.e. through the chloroplast‐localized oxidative branch of the pentose phosphate pathway) into the Calvin–Benson cycle was proposed recently. Here, we measured intramolecular deuterium abundances in leaf starch ...
... Vinegar and vegetable oil are frequently used in emulsion formulations, allowing the fabrication of new functional foods. In the present study, a potentially functional oil/vinegar dressing was formulated using an enriched omega-3 fatty acids oil blend (high-oleic sunflower and soybean oil) and several kinds of naturally occurring biophenols (white wine, red wine, pomegranate, apple, malt, alcohol ...
... This paper presents the physicochemical characteristics and antioxidative, antibacterial and antiproliferative effects of nineteen samples of different honey types (acacia, linden, heather, sunflower, phacelia, basil, anise, sage, chestnut, hawthorn, lavender and meadow) collected from different locations in the Western Balkans (Republic of Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Northern Mace ...
Acacia; Castanea; Helianthus annuus; Lavandula; chemometrics; factor analysis; fluorescence emission spectroscopy; food composition; honey; honeydew; principal component analysis; France; Romania
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... Fluorescence spectroscopy in conjunction with parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC), principal component analysis (PCA) and SIMCA was used for the development of geographic and botanical discrimination models to differentiate among distinct honey classes. For this aim, 96 authentic honey samples, having several botanical origins (acacia, chestnut, colza, honeydew, lavender, linden and sunflower), ori ...
... To ensure that honey belongs to a very appreciated botanical class, the classical methodology is melissopalynology analysis to identify and count pollen grains. However, this method is time-consuming and laborious. In this work, four stable isotopes (δ¹³Cₕ, δ¹³Cₚ, δ¹⁸O and δ²H) and twelve elemental contents (Na, Mg, Ca, K, Fe, Cr, Mn, Co, Cu, Sr, Se, Mo) were used to build the dataset, and the Ran ...
... Increasing the diversity of crops grown in arable soils delivers multiple ecological functions. Whether mixtures of residues from different crops grown in polyculture contribute to microbial assimilation of carbon (C) to a greater extent than would be expected from applying individual residues is currently unknown. In this study, we used ¹³C isotope labelled cover crop residues (buckwheat, clover, ...
Apis mellifera; Helianthus annuus; United States Environmental Protection Agency; beans; ecotoxicology; honey bees; imidacloprid; indigenous species; models; passion fruits; pesticide application; pesticide law; research; risk; risk assessment; tomatoes; Brazil
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... All across the world, different countries use Ecological risk assessments (ERA) of pesticides to pollinators as a regulatory tool to understand the safety of pesticide use in agriculture. However, pesticide application is still recognized as one of the main stress factors causing a decline in the global population of bees. In all ERA procedures, the effects of pesticides on the honey bee species A ...
Helianthus annuus; achenes; acid value; biodiesel; biomass; energy; field experimentation; industrialization; iodine value; issues and policy; oils; pollution; pour point; research; saponification; sulfur; transportation; viscosity
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... Energy security is a prime focus of policy makers to support agriculture, industrialisation, and transportation. Due to limited conventional energy sources, there is a need to harness non-conventional energy sources. In this regard, one of the proposed approaches is using biomass (e.g. energy crops) to produce biofuel—a renewable source of energy. Sunflower has several agronomic features to be exp ...
... In the present study, the biochar derived from sunflower husks was used as a mediator in the heterogeneous Fenton process. The physical and chemical characteristics were studied in terms of specific surface area, elemental contents, surface morphology, surface functional groups, thermal stability, and X-ray crystallography. The main aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of biochar in a heterogeneo ...
... Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a major oilseed crop, cultivated throughout the world, and the nutritional quality of its edible oil ranks among the best vegetable oils in agricultural product. In Tunisia, there is a lack of study on biochemical characterization of sunflower germplasm oil. The present study was conducted to analyze oil content and fatty acid composition of 22 local and introduced ...
... The aim of this study was to compare the growth performance, feed conversion ratio (FCR), and efficiency of ingested feed (ECI) by larvae of the Tenebrio molitor beetle. The growth and development potential of the yellow mealworm was evaluated by using chicken feed (CF), rapeseed meal (RM), wheat bran (WB), and willowleaf sunflower (WS) to obtain inexpensive and various sources of feed. The result ...
... The bioremediation of sewage sludge, containing potentially toxic elements (heavy metals), by the hyperaccumulator sunflower (Helianthus annus L.), was determined in greenhouse (G) and field (F) conditions in Isfahan, Iran. The soil pots, mixed with dried sewage sludge at 0, 15, 30, 45, and 60 mg/kg, were planted with sunflower seedlings and kept in the greenhouse (G) and in the field (F). Differe ...
... The present study presents the use of photochemiluminescence assay (PCL) and 2,2 diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH), 2,2′-azinobis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid (ABTS), the ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), and cupric ion reducing antioxidant capacity (CUPRAC) methods for the measurement of lipid-soluble antioxidant capacity (ACL) of 14 different byproducts obtained from the veget ...
... Despite increasing interest to investigate horizontal gene transfer as a leading cause of antibiotic resistance spread, the resistome is not only influenced by the influx and efflux of genes in different environments. Rather, the expression of existing genes under different stress conditions requires special attention. This study determined whether pre-adapting Lactiplantibacillus pentosus strains ...
Helianthus annuus; Tenebrio molitor; diet; eicosapentaenoic acid; fatty acid composition; fish oils; gas chromatography; insect development; linseed; nutrient content; physiological regulation; principal component analysis; soybean meal; wheat bran
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... Several species of insects have been indicated as suitable and alternative sources of nutrients for humans and animals. A crucial aspect is that their nutritional composition and development time can be influenced by the substrate used for rearing. The main objective of this study is to evaluate how the fatty acid composition of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) larvae changes with diff ...
Raquel Martins-Noguerol; Sebastien Acket; Manuel Adrián Troncoso-Ponce; Rafael Garcés; Mónica Venegas-Calerón; Joaquín J. Salas; Enrique Martínez-Force; Antonio Javier Moreno-Pérez
... Prosthetic lipoyl groups are essential for the metabolic activity of several multienzyme complexes in most organisms. In plants, octanoyltransferase (LIP2) and lipoyl synthase (LIP1) enzymes in the mitochondria and plastids participate in the de novo synthesis of lipoic acid, and in the attachment of the lipoyl cofactors to their specific targets. In plastids, the lipoylated pyruvate dehydrogenase ...
... Downy mildew (DM) is one of the most serious diseases in sunflower-growing regions worldwide, often significantly reducing sunflower yields. The causal agent of sunflower DM, the oomycete pathogen Plasmopara halstedii, is highly virulent and aggressive. Studying regional disease spread and virulence evolution in the DM pathogen population is important for the development of new sunflower inbred li ...
... Recently, efficient synthesis of furan-based chemicals from biomacromolecule via chemoenzymatic approaches have been widely recognized. In this work, an efficient conversion of biomacromolecule (e.g., xylan in biomass) to furfurylamine (FLA) was developed in a tandem reaction by bridging with chemocatalysis and biocatalysis. Various biomasses (e.g., corncob, bagasse, bamboo shoot shell, corn stalk ...
Helianthus annuus; Vertisols; climate; ecology; field experimentation; grain yield; lipid content; pigeon peas; seed yield; sunflower seed; India
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... A field experiment was conducted during Kharif 2019 to evaluate transplanted pigeonpea and sunflower intercropping system at different dates of sowing and fertilizers. Treatment combinations consists of two sowing time and eight intercropping system replicated thrice. Pigeonpea transplanted in second fortnight of July recorded significantly higher grain yield, equivalent yields of pigeonpea (PEY) ...
Arabidopsis thaliana; Chrysanthemum morifolium; Helianthus annuus; Lactuca sativa; agronomy; bioinformatics; cold season; computer software; genes; gibberellins; lettuce; mitogen-activated protein kinase; protein domains; quantitative polymerase chain reaction; tap roots; temperature
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... Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) being a cool‐season crop can bolt if the temperatures increase above 20 °C. When lettuce bolts, the plants start the reproductive growth cycle. The improvement in resistance to high temperature bolting has been an important goal of lettuce breeding. This paper verified that Lactuca sativa mitogen‐activated protein kinases 6 (LsMAPK6) played an important role in high tem ...
... Cd-contaminated farmlands threaten food security and safety by inhibiting crop growth and Cd accumulating in edible parts. Phytoremediation is a promising option to remove Cd from farmland soil. An ideal option is to remediate Cd and produce crops simultaneously on the contaminated soil. Therefore, we chose widely planted oil crops (soybean, sunflower and rape) as experimental materials, cultured ...
Helianthus annuus; Salvia hispanica; carotenoids; chemometrics; independent component analysis; linseed; oils; oxidation; pumpkins; ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy; Brazil
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... Cold-pressed oils from seeds, nuts, and grains (brown and golden flaxseeds, black and white sesame, sunflower, chia, pumpkin, Brazil and Chilean nuts, almonds, peanuts, Baru, cashew nuts) were analyzed through ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) spectroscopy coupled to independent component analysis (ICA). The proposal was able to provide information on primary and secondary oxidation compounds, tocopher ...
Helianthus annuus; barley; corn; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; gas chromatography; high performance liquid chromatography; silage; thin layer chromatography; wheat
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... Various analytical techniques for detecting mycotoxins have been developed in order to control their concentration in food and feed. Conventional analytical approaches for mycotoxin identification include thin-layer chromatography (TLC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and gas chromatography (GC). Rapid methods for mycotoxin analysis are also becoming increasingly relevant. One of t ...
... Sunflower ‘Sunfinity’ (Helianthus hybrida) can be produced as a potted plant if apical dominance is removed with a manual pinch to control plant height and promote branching and flower number. Chemical pinching agents such as dikegulac sodium could prove to be valuable tools to reduce the labor and costs associated with manual pinching. Our objective was to determine the time of seedling growth an ...
... An innovative process aiming to combine storage and alkali pretreatment of cover crops was investigated using lime as a low cost and environmental friendly reactant. Different lime loadings and Total Solid concentrations (TS) allowed to highlight the abiotic mechanisms of deacetylation during the early stages of the process. Long-term storage experiments of rye and sunflower cover crops at 100 g.k ...
... Heliolactone is a non-canonical strigolactone isolated from sunflower root exudates. We have previously demonstrated that exogenously administered carlactonoic acid (CLA) was converted to heliolactone in sunflower. The conversion of CLA to heliolactone requires the methyl esterification of the carboxylic acid at C-19. Also, the CLA conversion to its methyl ester, methyl carlactonoate (MeCLA), was ...
... Pakistan is in dire need of an oil and oil-based products For this, the prime objective is to pay serious attention to oilseed crops and mainly towards sunflower because the oil is of very good quality in terms of nutrition value; also the cake can be used as feed for animals. The crop can trim the import bill of edible oil. It takes only 130 days to reach maturity with comparatively less cost and ...
Helianthus annuus; chemical bonding; chlorogenic acid; color; gel strength; gels; hydrocolloids; pH; protein solubility; sunflower seed protein
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... Phenolic compounds are removed from plant protein extracts because their interaction with proteins can lead to undesirable sensory and techno-functional changes. The trend toward less refined plant protein fractions requires clarification of the degree to which removal is necessary. Chlorogenic acid (CGA) was added to sunflower protein solutions to obtain apparent CGA-protein molar ratios between ...
... This paper explores how farmers adapt to salinity and waterlogging conditions by selecting crops. In this context, this study identifies salinity and waterlogging tolerant crops essential for the sustained livelihood of crop farmers. We developed a multinomial logit model and a cost-benefit analysis for assessing the effectiveness of farmers' selection of crops. Estimating the regression model acr ...
... Contamination of the environment with heavy metals (HMs) has led to huge global environmental issues. Industrialization activities such as mining, manufacturing, and construction generate massive amounts of toxic waste, posing environmental risks. HMs soil pollution causes a variety of environmental issues and has a detrimental effect on both animals and plants. To remove HMs from the soil, tradit ...
... Understanding the dynamics of decomposition and release of nutrients from plant residues of different covers, in association or succession, is essential to define more sustainable management strategies in tropical soils. The objective of this study was to estimate the decomposition rates and the release of nutrients during the decomposition of different crop residues with different chemical compos ...
... Strain XBU10ᵀ was isolated from a soil sample of a sunflower plot in Inner Mongolia, China. The isolate was a Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterium, and its colonies were bright yellow in colour. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain XBU10ᵀ belonged to the genus Luteimonas of the family Lysobacteraceae and was most closely related to ...
... Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.; 2n = 2x = 34) is an important annual oilseed crop cultivated worldwide due to its good oil quality and wider adaptability to different climatic and soil conditions. In the recent past, powdery mildew (Golovinomyces cichoracearum (DC.) V.P. Heluta.) disease has evolved as a significant constraint for yield and quality production in sunflower crop. Hence, we develope ...
Helianthus annuus; canola oil; chemometrics; cooking fats and oils; discriminant analysis; electronic nose; fraud; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; odors; principal component analysis; sesame oil; sunflower oil; support vector machines; vegetables
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... The majority of current approaches to identify adulterated edible vegetable oils are of limited practical benefits because they require long analysis times, expensive equipment, and professional training. In this study, a new, simple, accurate, and fast detection method was proposed based on the odor fingerprint obtained by measuring the volatile odors of edible vegetable oils with an electronic n ...
... Sunflower production plays an important role in global industrial oil production. Two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, is a dangerous, polyphagous arthropod pest with a cosmopolitan distribution, which can endanger the economic features of global sunflower production. It is widely known that pests trigger various reactions in host plants. Among these, detection of ultra-weak photon emissi ...
Anupma Sharma; Ambika Bhardwaj; Ghata Khanduja; Saurav Kumar; Sudeshna Bagchi; Rishemjit Kaur; Manu Sharma; Monika Singla; T. Ravinder; Amol P. Bhondekar; B. L. A. Prabhavathi Devi
Helianthus annuus; coconuts; detection limit; gas chromatography; headspace analysis; ionization; palm oils; rancidity; rice bran; soybeans; temperature
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... A static headspace gas chromatography coupled with flame ionisation detector (SHS-GC-FID) has been used to develop a method for the identification and quantification of hexanal in various fresh and stored edible oils to assess their oxidative rancidity. The optimization has been done for three parameters, i.e. time, temperature and amount of sample. The method has been validated for linearity, lim ...
Helianthus annuus; body weight; corn; derivatization; detection limit; fluorescence; food composition; gel chromatography; health effects assessments; high performance liquid chromatography; markets; public health; risk; toxicity; vegetable oil; vegetables; Egypt
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... Aflatoxins (AFs) are among the most toxic contaminants that are present in nuts, grains, seeds, and spices. This study developed a selective and reliable method to determine AFs in edible vegetable oils. In addition, the health risk assessments of AFs owing to the consumption of contaminated edible vegetable oils were estimated using the margin of exposure (MOE) approach in Egyptians. Size exclusi ...
... In the last few years, some research groups have reported the occurrence of low apospory levels and/or integumentary embryony in wild Helianthus species. Considering the potential impact of apomixis as a tool to optimize plant breeding programs, we aimed to characterize the reproductive development of nine self‐pollinated sunflower cultivars (Helianthus annuus L.) with diverse genetic backgrounds, ...
Helianthus annuus; Russia; biodiversity; calmodulin; genes; geographical distribution; histones; internal transcribed spacers; monophyly; new species; stem cankers; Caucasus region
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... Phomopsis stem canker is economically important sunflower disease that caused by multiple Diaporthe species. Recent investigations resulted in the resolution that there are at least 13 Diaporthe species that can infect sunflower. A comprehensive analysis of the biodiversity and geographic distribution of Diaporthe species in Russia, particularly those that infect sunflower, has not been undertaken ...
... Adulteration using cheap vegetable oils into expensive oils such as sesame oil is a considerable challenge in the edible oil market. To discriminate pure and adulterated sesame oil with sunflower and canola oils (commonly used as an adulterant to the high-price oils), dielectric spectroscopy was applied in the range of 40 kHz–20 MHz. The principal component analysis (PCA) plots were able to distin ...
Echium; Helianthus annuus; alpha-linolenic acid; clinical trials; docosahexaenoic acid; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; humans; linoleic acid; linseed; microalgae; nutritional intervention; phosphatidylethanolamines; species diversity; sphingolipids; sterols; tandem mass spectrometry; vegetables
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... The content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in complex lipids essentially influences their physicochemical properties and has been linked to health and disease. To investigate the incorporation of dietary PUFA in the human plasma lipidome, we quantified glycerophospholipids (GPL), sphingolipids, and sterols using electrospray ionization coupled to tandem mass spectrometry of plasma samples o ...
... The ionome is defined as the mineral element composition of an organism or tissue and is genetically and environmentally influenced. Although nutrient deficiency changes the plant ionome, the differences among different species have not been elucidated fully. In the present study, we examined the ionomic responses to nutrient deficiency in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), maize (Zea mays L.), sunflow ...
... The present study was designed to examine if dietary fat sources that have shown differences in lifespan and if some aging-related aspects can modulate the range of histopathologic changes in central nervous and endocrine systems that occur during the lifespan of Wistar rats. Moreover, it was attempted to gain insight into the relationship between longevity and the development of the different pat ...
... The main goal of the study was to determine the influence of the addition for 6 weeks of 0.25 ppm Se as selenate (SeVI) or selenised yeast (SeY) to an isoenergetic and isoproteinous basal diet containing 2% fish oil, 2% sunflower oil and 12 ppm lycopene on the concentrations of fatty acids (FA), especially mono- (MUFA) and poly-unsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids in the liver, spleen and patch of broil ...
... Efflux transporters such as MexAB-OprM contribute to bacterial resistance to diverse antimicrobial compounds. Here, we show that MexB contributes to epiphytic and late-stage apoplastic growth of Pseudomonas syringae strain B728a, as well as lesion formation in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Although a ∆mexB mutant formed fewer lesions after topical application to common bean, these lesions cont ...
... Proteins from underutilized defatted oilseed meals have been proposed as promising sources of bioactive peptides. This study was conducted to determine the anti-inflammatory activities of five oilseed proteins (flaxseed, rapeseed, sunflower, sesame and soybean) hydrolysed via alcalase, pepsin (at pH 1.3 and pH 2.1), respectively, and to compare these against two dairy proteins (whey, casein). The ...
... Double-cropping as a means of sustainably intensifying oilseed production could promote farmer adoption of new and alternative use oil crops like camelina [Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz]. Previous research indicated that double-cropping sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) after winter camelina in the upper Midwest USA tended to reduce sunflower seed yield and oil content as compared with monocrop sunfl ...
... In south-western France, sunflowers are usually grown in short rotations and after a long fallow period during which soils are left bare. This practice can favour diseases, caused by soilborne fungi, such as sunflower verticillium wilt (SVW), as well as nitrate leaching, both of which can decrease yields. Growing cover crops during a fallow period is an agroecological practice that could provide e ...
... The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the hydrolates obtained as the by-products of the Thymus vulgaris essential oil steam distillation process. The bioassays, which were undertaken in order to determine the effect on germination and initial growth of seedlings of some cultivated and weed species, were performed under controlled conditions with different concentrations of the hydro ...
... Sunflower kernel is rich in protein and is considered an alternative plant protein source for meat analogue application. The effect of process conditions used to make ingredients from sunflower kernel needs to be investigated on the functional and structuring properties. Pre-pressing and de-oiling with 96% ethanol were applied to obtain de-oiled sunflower kernel (DSK). Pressed sunflower kernel (PS ...
... The effect of the container surface on the thermal degradation of vegetable oil was investigated. Coconut, canola, soybean, sunflower, groundnut and rice bran oils were heated in glass, copper and iron containers of identical shape, size and thickness. Peroxide value, p-anisidine value, totox value, total polar contain, free fatty acid value, saponification value, iodine value, antioxidant and met ...
... Sprout consumption has become more popular due to a new variety of sprouts being introduced to the market. However, sprout seeds are a major source of sprout contamination and have been linked to most sprout-associated foodborne outbreaks. This study investigated Salmonella reduction in sunflower and roselle seeds using various sanitizing agents including water, water at 55 °C, sodium hypochlorite ...
... The cropping pattern of southwestern (SW) coastal Bangladesh has been improving from Fallow-Fallow-Transplanted aman paddy to Sunflower-Fallow-Transplanted aman paddy. The emerging cropping pattern of SW Bangladesh from single transplanted aman paddy to double cropping, sunflower in winter after transplanted aman paddy needs new crop husbandry including nutrient management particularly nitrogen (N ...
... Oilseed crops can be cultivated widely in different agro-ecological conditions for the oil content in their seeds. Among different oilseeds, sunflower, is a vital edible oilseed that needs well-balanced nutrition for achieving enhanced oil quality and productivity. Considering the above, a field experiment was conducted during the rabi season of 2021-22 on sandy loam soil at Experimental Farm of C ...
Helianthus annuus; biomass; field experimentation; freshwater; irrigation water; microirrigation; plant growth; plant height; saline water; seed yield; soil depth; soil profiles; soil salinity; sunflower seed; water content; water salinity; China
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... To achieve secure and efficient saline water irrigation in arid areas, a field experiment was conducted to evaluate the salt distribution in the soil profile and response of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) to salinity from 2018 to 2020. The experiment included five levels of irrigation water salinity (ECi = 0.5 dS/m, 3.3 dS/m, 4.9 dS/m, 6.6 dS/m and 8.2 dS/m). The results indicated that the soil ...
... Laboratory experiment was conducted with various saturated fats (coconut oil, palm oil, cheese and butter) and unsaturated (mustard, soybean, groundnut and sunflower) in grains soaked with water to enhance the popping quality of popcorn variety Amber. the range of variability of different characteristics such as bulk density, popping percent, grain weight loss during popping and expansion volume v ...
... This study was focused on an assessment of the agronomic efficiency of organo-mineral fertilizers based on sewage sludge and possible accumulation of heavy metals in plant biomass. Fertilizers optimized for industrial crops (rape, maize, sunflower) were used in the study. The impact of fertilizers based on sewage sludge on early stage plant growth was assessed using germination tests, and the impa ...
Muhammad Waqar; Muhammad Habib-ur-Rahman; Muhammad Usama Hasnain; Shahid Iqbal; Abdul Ghaffar; Rashid Iqbal; Muhammad Iftikhar Hussain; Ayman EL Sabagh
Azadirachta indica; Helianthus annuus; achenes; arid zones; biochar; field experimentation; grain yield; growth and development; harvest index; leaf area index; leaves; nitrogen; nutrient use efficiency; photosynthesis; pollution; research; stomatal conductance; sulfur-coated urea; urea
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... Sunflower plants need nitrogen consistently and in higher amount for optimum growth and development. However, nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of sunflower crop is low due to various nitrogen (N) losses. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the advanced strategies to minimize N losses and also improve sunflower productivity under arid climatic conditions. A field trial was conducted with four slow ...
... The exchange of animal-based for plant-based proteins is becoming more and more popular due to an increasing demand for alternative and more sustainable protein sources. In this study, solubilized water- (ws) or salt-and-water (sws) meat proteins were evaluated in their pH-dependent interactions with soluble protein fractions from wheat, pumpkin, sunflower, rapeseed, or potato proteins. For this p ...
... Identifiable endophytic bacteria with plant growth-promoting traits promise to ensure sustainable agriculture. However, information on the versatility and exploration of sunflower-associated bacteria as bioinoculants is less studied. Here, we present the whole-genome sequence and annotation of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia JVB5 isolated from the sunflower root endosphere from the North West provinc ...
... The aim of the study is to determine the effects of frying under standard atmospheric and pressure conditions on some quality characteristics of turkey nuggets. Turkey nuggets are fried under atmospheric and pressure conditions using sunflower or hazelnut oil. Pressure frying decreases the thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) value of turkey nuggets while sunflower oil increases this va ...
... Sunflower is an important industrial crop since it is grown all over the world for oil production, while Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.) is characterized by great competitiveness and can severely impair plant growth and crop productivity. Thus, a two-year field experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of Johnsongrass control practices on plant growth, seed yield, and oil content ...
... Several polyunsaturated fatty acids are considered to have beneficial health effects, while saturated fatty acids and industrial trans fatty acids (TFAs) are linked to negative health consequences. Given the increased formation of TFAs during heating, many studies already investigated compositional changes in oils after prolonged heating or at extremely high temperatures. In contrast, our aim was ...
José Santos-Silva; Alexandra Francisco; Ana Paula Portugal; Kátia Paulos; Maria Teresa Dentinho; João M. Almeida; Leandro Regedor; Letícia Fialho; Liliana Cachucho; Eliana Jerónimo; Susana P. Alves; Rui J.B. Bessa
... Thirty-two bulls were assigned to four total mixed biodiverse haylage-based diets to evaluate the effects of partial substitution of grains by agroindustrial byproducts, sunflower seeds (SS) supplementation and haylage level on growth, in vitro methane production and carcass and meat quality. Dietary treatments included a grain-based diet with 30% grain and haylage:concentrate ratio (H:C) of 60:40 ...
... The stability of three frying oils (rapeseed, sunflower, and rice) and their effect on the nutritional value of deep-fried fish fingers (FF) and potato croquettes (PC) was evaluated, considering the nutritional importance of reducing the amount of oil absorbed by fried foods. Ten frying cycles were performed for each food to mimic the repeated frying conditions. Dry matter content of fried foods w ...
Ester dos Santos Coêlho; Almir Rogério Evangelista de Souza; Hamurábi Anizio Lins; Manoel Galdino dos Santos; Matheus de Freitas Souza; Francilene de Lima Tartaglia; Anna Kézia Soares de Oliveira; Welder de Araújo Rangel Lopes; Lindomar Maria Silveira; Vander Mendonça; Aurélio Paes Barros Júnior
Helianthus annuus; cultivars; nitrogen; nutrient use efficiency
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... The large variation in the response of sunflower to nitrogen fertilization indicates the need for studies to better adjust the optimum levels of this nutrient for production conditions. Our objectives were to analyze the agronomic yield of sunflower cultivars as a function of nitrogen fertilization; indicate the cultivar with high nitrogen use efficiency; and measure the adequate N dose for sunflo ...
... Frying is one of the cooking methods which generates mono aromatic hydrocarbons, including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX); subsequently, it affects health through carcinogenic (CR) and non-carcinogenic risks (n-CR). However, their environmental effects known by secondary organic aerosols (SOA) and ozone formation potential (OFP) were also attended by many scientists. Therefore, ...
... Pomegranate peel is an agro-industrial waste that can be used as source of punicalagin, a polyphenolic compound with several beneficial effects on health. Since, once extracted, punicalagin is prone to degradation, its encapsulation by double emulsions can be an alternative to protect the active compound and control its release. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the feasibility of enca ...
Helianthus annuus; active ingredients; emulsifiers; encapsulation; ethanol; high performance liquid chromatography; phospholipids; polysorbates; saponins; swine; telomerase
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... Cycloastragenol (CA) is a plant saponin that functions as a telomerase activator, and it has been made as an oral anti-aging supplement and use as active ingredient in topical cosmetic products. The anti-aging performance in cosmetic products have only been evaluated by description of skin appearance, while direct topical penetration of CA across the skin barrier still needs to be confirmed. The o ...
... Twenty-four Mahabadi goat kids with age of 3–4 months and initial body weight of 18.5 ± 0.5 kg were used to investigate the encapsulated soybean meal and barley grain with calcium soap of sunflower oil in a completely randomized design. Encapsulation of soybean meal and barley grain were evaluated on goat kids’ performance, carcass characteristics, and nutrient digestibility and blood metabolites. ...
... Primary crop losses in agriculture are due to leaf diseases, which farmers cannot identify early. If the diseases are not detected early and correctly, then the farmer will have to undergo huge losses. Therefore, in the field of agriculture, the detection of leaf diseases in tomato crops plays a vital role. Recent advances in computer vision and deep learning techniques have made disease predictio ...
Helianthus annuus; canola; chlorogenic acid; dietary fiber; extrusion; plant proteins; polyphenols; protein denaturation; protein solubility; protein value; proteolysis; sinapic acid; soybean cake; soybeans
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... The most abundant oilseed cakes, soybean, rapeseed/canola, and sunflower, and especially those from cold-pressing, contain meaningful amounts of antinutritional polyphenols that limit their potential as plant protein sources. The objective of this study was to remove polyphenols, and especially sinapic and chrologenic acid derivatives in canola and sunflower, respectively, using pilot-scale extrus ...
... Pollination and pest control are two major ecological functions sustaining crop yield. In insect‐pollinated crops, previous studies have revealed that an increase in resources and habitats in landscapes can increase pest control by natural enemies as well as insect pollination by pollinators. However, data have been lacking that simultaneously considers the effects of landscape on both pollinators ...
... As an alternative to bovine milk, plant-based milks are gaining popularity in the global food market. However, industry faces various technological hurdles such as colloidal instability and sedimentation of these plant-based milk alternatives. Colloidal stability of UHT legume-based milk alternatives made from native and partially hydrolysed faba bean protein concentrate (FBPC) was investigated. F ...
Helianthus annuus; agricultural land; canopy; eddy covariance; equations; evapotranspiration; forests; leaf area index; leaves; meteorology; models; photosynthesis; rhizosphere; salinity; salt content; salt stress; salt tolerance; seedlings; soil salinity; soil salts; soil water; stomatal movement
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... Canopy conductance (gc) is the key parameter to quantify eco-hydrology processes. Salinity stress is one of the most important abiotic stresses to growth of crops in arid and semi-arid areas. Understanding the influence of salinity on stomatal movement and accurately describing gc under salt stress are of great significance to quantify agro-hydrology processes affected by salt. Therefore, we measu ...
Elaeis guineensis; Helianthus annuus; acidification; administrative management; biodiesel; canola; ecotoxicology; energy conversion; environmental impact; environmental performance; eutrophication; feedstocks; land use change; life cycle assessment; palm oils; shrublands; soybeans; Indonesia
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... Biodiesel production from multiple feedstocks, which is currently being carried out on a laboratory scale, has the potential to be scaled up on an industrial scale in the future. Therefore, it is necessary to study the environmental impact of multi-feedstock biodiesel production. This study assesses the environmental performance of the simulated production of multi-feedstock biodiesel and compares ...
Brandt Berghuis; Andrew Friskop; Michelle Gilley; Jessica Halvorson; Bryan Hansen; Scott Fitterer; Dave Carruth; Blaine Schatz; Bob Benson; Ryan Humann; Samuel Markell
... Sunflower rust, caused by Puccinia helianthi, is an economically and globally important disease of sunflower. Two types of sunflower are produced in the U.S. Northern Great Plains: the oilseed type and the confection type. Although approximately 80% of the acreage in this region is planted as the oilseed-type sunflower, fungicide efficacy and timing studies have been conducted primarily on the mor ...
... Insecticides with different mode of actions viz., spinosad, emamectin benzoate, thiodicarb, monocrotophos and fenvalerate were applied at LC₅₀ and field recommended concentrations (FRC) to study the persistence of insecticides under elevated CO₂ (550 ± 25 ppm) and temperatures (28, 29, 31, 33 and 35ºC). These insecticides often caused significantly higher mortalities at 28ºC than at 35ºC. The mean ...
... In this work, we evaluated the physical and oxidative stabilities of 5% w/w fish oil-in-water emulsions stabilized with 1%wt Tween20 and containing 2 mg/mL of protein hydrolysates from olive seed (OSM–H), sunflower (SFSM–H), rapeseed (RSM–H) and lupin (LUM–H) meals. To this end, the plant-based substrates were hydrolyzed at a 20% degree of hydrolysis (DH) employing a mixture 1:1 of subtilisin: try ...
... The guava root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne enterolobii) has become one of the greatest enemies of agricultural production as current nematode management methods are not effective against this nematode. Summer cover crops can be an alternative solution for sustainable nematode management as they have a great potential to suppress nematode reproduction in addition to providing other usual benefits. G ...
... CONSTANS-like (COL) genes play crucial roles in the regulation of photoperiodic flowering and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses; however, COL genes in sunflower (HaCOL) have not been extensively studied. In the present study, we identified 22 putative HaCOL genes in the whole genome sequence of sunflower, which were unevenly distributed on 10 chromosomes. The phylogenetic analysis showed th ...
... Vegetable oils are important components of the human diet, and are also actively used for industrial and cosmetic purposes and as biofuels. The scope of oil application largely depends on its composition. The fatty acid composition of oils, in its turn, is built upon the presence and activity of the enzymes of their biosynthesis. The presented review is an attempt to summarize and generalize infor ...
... Cold-pressed hempseed oil (HSO) is known to have many health benefits due to many phytochemicals and high polyunsaturated fatty acids content. In this study, HSO oleogels were prepared with 3, 5, and 7% natural waxes including sunflower wax (SW), rice bran wax (RBW), beeswax, and candelilla wax to evaluate their potential as solid fat replacements in margarines and spreads. Firmness, crystal struc ...
... During periods of no or low crop growth in dryland cropping systems, tillage can reduce residue coverage and thereby elevate wind erosion risk. We measured wind erosion on a silt loam, Haplustoll soil in North Dakota (456 mm precipitation yr–¹) in response to levels of tillage applied once in spring during fallow following a small grain–sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) rotation. Treatments were no ...
... Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle), a perennial herb native to Eurasia, has been introduced to temperate regions and is a serious weed for arable and pastoral agriculture (Schroeder et al. 1993). C. arvense reproduces both clonally and sexually. It is highly competitive, causes yield reductions in crops such as wheat, alfalfa, and sugarbeet, and can reduce forage availability and production (Wilson ...
Lucie Mota; Violeta Hevia; Carlos Rad; Joana Alves; António Silva; José A. González; Jorge Ortega‐Marcos; Oscar Aguado; Paloma Alcorlo; Francisco M. Azcárate; Libertad Chapinal; César A. López; João Loureiro; Evan A. N. Marks; Catarina Siopa; José Paulo Sousa; Sílvia Castro
... Intensification of agricultural landscapes to fulfil increased global food demands has dramatically impacted biodiversity and ecosystem services. Several pollinator groups, which are vital for the maintenance of pollinator‐dependent crops, have been severely affected by this intensification process. Management tools, such as the implementation of agri‐environmental schemes, have been widely propos ...
... Helianthus annuus (sunflower) and Brassica napus (canola) are two important crops for vegetable oil industry, but their residues after harvesting cause agricultural waste. In this study, agricultural wastes of sunflower and canola were utilized as activated carbon (AC) after pyrolysing the wastes at 450 °C and activating with HNO₃ at 90 °C. Obtained AC was then used to produce Fe₃O₄@AC nanocomposi ...