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... BACKGROUND: Anthracnose, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, increases losses in the production of common beans. As 1,3‐diazoles can act against fungi by inhibiting the enzyme squalene epoxidase (SE), 2‐aminoselenazoles and 2‐aminothiazoles were synthesized and subjected to tests with the fungus. In addition, the interactions of the most promising substances with the enzyme SE were ...
bean flour; beans; bioactive properties; pH; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; principal component analysis; protein content; thermal properties; vicilin
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... In this study, a comparative investigation on the structural, technofunctional and bioactive properties of protein concentrates from different common bean genotypes was performed. Protein extractions were carried out at different pH and salt concentrations and the highest protein content for the concentrates (77.7%) was determined for pH 11 and 0.4% of salt. The protein content of the common bean ...
... A novel positive single-stranded RNA virus, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum hypovirus 9 (SsHV9), was identified in the plant-pathogenic Sclerotinia sclerotiorum strain GB375, which was associated with a garden bean plant in the United States. The complete genome of SsHV9 is 14,067 nucleotides in length, excluding the poly(A) tail. It has a single large open reading frame encoding a putative polyprotein ( ...
... Restaurants are characterized by high levels of meat being consumed in this out-of-home setting, while plant-based meat alternatives remain a niche product, thus preserving a high environmental impact of food consumption. We tested whether subtly re-designing the restaurant menu, so that plant-based meat alternatives were perceived as the default to a greater extent, increased consumer selection o ...
Juan Carlos Suárez; José Alexander Anzola; Amara Tatiana Contreras; Dina Luz Salas; José Iván Vanegas; Milan O. Urban; Stephen E. Beebe; Idupulapati M. Rao
Phaseolus vulgaris; Zea mays; acid soils; agronomic traits; agronomy; beans; continuous cropping; corn; experimental design; fertilizer application; grain yield; intercropping; land use; mineral fertilizers; organic fertilizers; production costs; Amazonia
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... Intercropping the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) with maize (Zea mays L.) is a widely used agronomic practice in smallholder farms in different regions of the world. Although it is a common practice in the Colombian Amazon region, crop yields are low due to the degradation of low fertility, acidic soil and high-temperature stress. Studies are needed on how the integration of genetically adapt ...
Ioannis Karavidas; Georgia Ntatsi; Vasiliki Vougeleka; Anestis Karkanis; Theodora Ntanasi; Costas Saitanis; Evgenios Agathokleous; Andreas Ropokis; Leo Sabatino; Fanny Tran; Pietro P. M. Iannetta; Dimitrios Savvas
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important legume for human consumption worldwide and an important source of vegetable protein, minerals, antioxidants, and bioactive compounds. The N₂-fixation capacity of this crop reduces its demand for synthetic N fertilizer application to increase yield and quality. Fertilization, yield, and quality of common bean may be optimised by several othe ...
Allium ampeloprasum; Phaseolus vulgaris; Zea mays; beans; corn; data collection; developmental stages; leeks; soil; weeds; France
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... This article introduces a dataset of 2 801 images of vegetable crops. Maize (Zea mays), bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and leek (Allium ampeloprasum) crops at an early stage of development (between 2 and 5 weeks from seeding of transplanting) are supported. Two kinds of annotations are provided: (i) bounding boxes enclosing the crops of interest or their stems, weeds being left apart, and (ii) crop str ...
... Knowledge is insufficient on feasible remediation techniques to agricultural soils contaminated by multiple heavy metal(loid)s with elevated concentrations and extreme acidy from acid mine drainages (AMD). We aimed to elucidate the effect of integrated biochar (BC) and soil replacement on improving the mining soil properties and then alleviating the phytotoxicity of As, Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn on radis ...
... Peripheral artery disease (PAD) has high morbidity and mortality rates. A metabolomics approach was employed to determine whether consumption of bean-rich diets for 8 weeks would impact the metabolomic profile of individuals with PAD. Serum and urine, collected from 54 participants with clinical PAD at baseline and after 8 weeks on 0.3 cups beans/day (n = 19), 0.6 cups beans/day (n = 20), or contr ...
Francilene Lopes da Silva; Elaine Nascimento Aquino; Débora Costa da Cunha; Pedro Ricardo Vieira Hamann; Thales Bruno Magalhães; Andrei Stecca Steindorff; Cirano José Ulhoa; Eliane F. Noronha
... Trichoderma spp can colonize host plants protecting them from pathogen infection. This association is accomplished by an exchange of molecules secreted by both the host plant and symbiotic fungus. In the present work, using LC-MS/MS analysis, our research group described a list of proteins secreted by T. harzianum TR274 during association with common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). The main goal is to ...
... BACKGROUND: Breeding strategies to improve modern varieties having high yield, high nutritional value and resistance to biotic and abiotic stress, etc. is very important to make up for the food deficiencies. Molecular studies as a tool in breeding programs for the characterization of germplasm have been performed with several DNA marker systems. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the present study, the gen ...
Lorenzo Raggi; Luca C. Pacicco; Leonardo Caproni; Clara Álvarez-Muñiz; Külli Annamaa; Ana M. Barata; Diana Batir-Rusu; María J. Díez; Maarit Heinonen; Vojtěch Holubec; Shelagh Kell; Hrvoje Kutnjak; Helene Maierhofer; Gert Poulsen; Jaime Prohens; Parthenopi Ralli; Filomena Rocha; María L. Rubio Teso; Dan Sandru; Pietro Santamaria; Sarah Sensen; Olivia Shoemark; Salvador Soler; Silvia Străjeru; Imke Thormann; Jens Weibull; Nigel Maxted; Valeria Negri
... During the last century, the progressive substitution of landraces with modern, high yielding varieties, led to a dramatic reduction of in situ conserved crop diversity in Europe. Nowadays there is limited and scattered information on where landraces are cultivated. To fill this gap and lay the groundwork for a regional landrace in situ conservation strategy, information on more than 19,335 geo-re ...
... Volatile components in green wheat under different treatments including raw, washing, blanching, precooling, freezing, steaming, boiling, frying, and freeze‐drying were evaluated by gas chromatography‐ion mobility spectroscopy (GC‐IMS) and gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry (GC‐MS). Five key aroma substances including n‐hexanal, benzaldehyde, nonanal, 2‐pentylfuran, and (E)‐oct‐2‐enal were found ...
Elizabeth Nakhungu Wafula; Mercyline Onduso; Irene Njoki Wainaina; Carolien Buvé; Peter Kahenya Kinyanjui; Stephen Mwangi Githiri; Wouter Saeys; Daniel Ndaka Sila; Marc Hendrickx
... The presence of antinutrients in common beans negatively affects mineral bioavailability. Therefore, this study aimed to predict the antinutrient to mineral molar ratios (proxy-indicators of in vitro mineral bioavailability) of a wide range of raw bean types, using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. Iron, zinc, phytate and tannin concentrations and, antinutrient to mineral molar ratios were determi ...
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 ...
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens B14 to improve the quality of a degraded soil in Lerma Valley, northwestern Argentina, as well as crop growth and yield, when inoculated on seeds of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) black cv. Nag 12. The effect on this soil infected with Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi) Goidanich (Order: Botryosphaeriales) was also e ...
... Bacillus subtilis can mitigate crop growth and yield under heat stress. We studied whether these benefits can be reproduced in the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). We hypothesized that B. subtilis strains AP-3 and AP-12 could improve bean crop performance under heat stress. Heat stress consisted of cultivation at 35 °C compared to pots at 25 °C in controlled environment chambers. Treatments we ...
... The current knowledge of bean plants microbiome is far from being complete. Unraveling the complexity of the bacterial communities within common bean cultivars that may significantly contribute to plant health, growth and protection against soil pathogens, represents a major challenge. In this study, the richness and composition of the bacterial communities from bean plant rhizospheres and control ...
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is an important legume crop in Israel and heavily relies on S-metolachlor for weed control. Pre-emergence (PRE) treatment of pendimethalin can also be used for this crop, however, such application results with suboptimal weed control results. This study aimed to evaluate crop safety and weed control efficacy of pendimethalin applied by pre-plant soil incorporati ...
... The present study is region specific carried out to see the relation of bean anthracnose with weather in Kashmir and also to assess the yield loss in bean vis-a-vis anthracnose. Such studies form basis for deciding disease suppressive crop geometry and also sowing date alterations besides helping in disease predictions. The yield loss study in particular reveals the importance of a disease before ...
Fernando de Souza Buzo; Emariane Satin Mortinho; Thais Lana Lobo Santana; Izabela Militão Garcia; Caroline Lopes Monteiro de Carvalho; Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira Filho
... It is widely accepted that mycorrhizal fungi increase phosphate fertilization efficiency. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of reduced phosphorus applications and inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on the nutrition and initial growth of the carioca-type common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L). The study was conducted at the Faculty of Engineering of Ilha Solteira, ...
Anser fabalis; acoustics; beans; flight; lakes; water birds
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... Wild animals are vulnerable to environmental noise. In wetlands, wintering waterbirds are easily disturbed by ship noises; however, the behavioral changes of waterbirds in response to different levels of noise are unclear. We simulated the acoustic environment created by ship movement to investigate the effects of ship noise on foraging, vigilance, and flight behaviors of the wintering bean goose ...
Jenifer Sthephanie Araújo da Silva; Erika Valente de Medeiros; Diogo Paes da Costa; Carlos Alberto Fragoso de Souza; Julyana Braga de Oliveira; Rafaela Félix da França; Cristina M. Souza-Motta; José Romualdo de Sousa Lima; Claude Hammecker
... The root soil interface harbors complex microbial interactions that influence plant and soil health. A better understanding of using of biochar derived from different waste sources with Trichoderma spp. (TRI), and the relationship between plant disease and environmental parameters would assist setting priorities. Here, we hypothesized that biochar and TRI could be useful in managing cassava root r ...
ash content; beans; biofuels; biomass; bulk density; business enterprises; charcoal; energy; energy poverty; food waste; markets; pineapples; sanitation; sludge; soil; waste management; water content; wood; Uganda
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... This study explored the production and evaluation of briquettes made from dried fecal sludge mixed with fresh food waste as a dual strategy to solve energy poverty and poor sanitation problems in Ugandan slums. Cylindrical briquettes measuring 82 mm height by 76 mm diameter were produced from dried fecal sludge (FS) alone, and FS mixed separately with pineapple peels (FS + PP), charcoal fines (FS ...
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production in the humid tropics may increase if less predictable rainfall becomes a serious seed yield constraint in traditional areas of production. The successful production of common bean will require the effective management of common bean diseases favored by hot and humid conditions. Web blight (WB), caused by Thanatephorus cucumeris (Frank) Donk, is a seri ...
Lucas Eduardo de Oliveira Aparecido; João A Lorençone; Pedro A Lorençone; Glauco de Souza Rolim; Kamila C de Meneses; José R da Silva Cabral de Moraes; Guilherme B Torsoni
Coffea arabica; agriculture; air; air temperature; beans; climate; decision making; evapotranspiration; meteorological data; sanitary and phytosanitary regulations; thermometers; Brazil
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... BACKGROUND: The loss of coffee leaves caused by the attack of pests and diseases significantly reduces its production and bean quality. Thus this study aimed to estimate foliation for regions with the highest production of arabica coffee in Brazil using nonlinear models as a function of climate. A 25‐year historical series (1995–2019) of Coffea arabica foliation (%) data was obtained by the Procaf ...
Brachiaria; beans; carbon; carbon sinks; cerrado; corn; crop rotation; cropland; deforestation; drought; ecosystems; forests; intensive farming; intercropping; irrigated farming; irrigation; land management; meteorology; no-tillage; rice; site preparation; soybeans; stubble; Brazil
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... The Cerrado is one of the most important agricultural production areas in Brazil where soybean and maize have expanded in recent decades through deforestation. The effects of cropland on the carbon (C) balance still needs to be understood at the ecosystem scale to better situate the role of land management in the tropical C cycle. In this study, we measured the C exchange of two fields (irrigated ...
... Cooking conditions influenced the microstructure, bioactive compounds, and biological activities of adzuki beans. In comparison to boiling, saturated steam under pressure in an autoclave caused more potential bioactive substances in beans to be released. Potential bioactive compound content and antioxidant activities of cooked beans and cooking water from autoclaving for 60 min and 10 min (A60 and ...
... Phytophthora root and stem rot of soybean caused by Phytophthora sojae is a destructive disease affecting soybean production worldwide. In nature, soybean is the only economically important cultivated host of P. sojae. The aim of this study was to explain different resistance mechanisms to P. sojae in nonhost common bean and host soybean as a basis for the control of Phytophthora root and stem rot ...
... Genetic resistance is the main strategy to control Fusarium wilt in common bean. Despite this, few studies have focused on defense mechanisms involved in bean resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. phaseoli (Fop). Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the changes in xylem morphology and involvement of phenylpropanoid compounds and their biosynthetic enzymes in bean resistance against Fop. ...
... Intraspecific recurrent selection in V. vinifera is an effective method for breeding of high quality, disease-, cold-, and drought-resistance grapes. Exploring the optimal treatment methods for grape (V. vinifera) seeds can help to accelerate the process of intraspecific recurrent selection and improve breeding efficiency. In this study, seeds of six V. vinifera varieties were used as experimental ...
Diana Villegas-Coronado; Ana María Guzman-Partida; Emmanuel Aispuro-Hernandez; Luz Vazquez-Moreno; José Ángel Huerta-Ocampo; José Andre-i Sarabia-Sainz; Nayelli Guadalupe Teran-Saavedra; Christian Minjarez-Osorio; Reina Castro-Longoria; Amir Maldonado; Irlanda Lagarda-Diaz
... Prohibitin (PHB) is a highly conserved eukaryotic protein complex involved in multiple cellular processes. In insects, PHB has been identified as a potential target protein to insecticidal molecules acting as a receptor of PF2 insecticidal lectin in the midgut of Zabrotes subfasciatus larvae (bean pest) and Cry protein of Bacillus thuringiensis in Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato beetle) ...
Delfran Batista dos Santos; Salomão de Sousa Medeiros; Tereza Amelia Lopes Cizenando Guedes Rocha; Rafael Oliveira Batista; José Amilton Santos Júnior; Francisco de Oliveira Mesquita; Rodrigo Santana Macedo; Erika Socorro Alves Graciano de Vasconcelos; Alexandre Pereira de Bakker
... To evaluates the leaching effects by saline water (2.0 dS m⁻¹) on the chemical characteristics of a Red Eutrophic Acrisol. This study was carried out under cultivated with the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), in protected drainage lysimeters, at the lysimeter station of the Irrigation and Drainage experimental area of the Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa/MG, Brazil. Treatments comprised si ...
Fernando de Souza Buzo; Lucas Martins Garé; Nayara Fernanda Siviero Garcia; Maura Santos Reis de Andrade da Silva; Pedro Henrique Giova da Silva; Pamela Roberta de Souza Morita; Juliana Barboza Correa; Juliana Trindade Martins; Everlon Cid Rigobelo; Amaia Nogales; Orivaldo Arf
... BACKGROUND: Chemical seed treatment is an established practice in agriculture to protect crops from soil‐borne pathogens and pests. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) benefit plants by extending soil exploration as well as water and nutrient uptake. The objective of this work was to analyze the effects of combinations of seed treatments with doses of inoculant containing Rhizoglomus intraradices o ...
... Purwoko T, Suranto, Setyaningsih R, Marliyana SD. 2021. Chlorogenic acid and caffeine content of fermented robusta bean. Biodiversitas 23: 902-906. Robusta beans contain caffeine and chlorogenic acid higher than arabica beans, however, it has a lower economic value than arabica beans. Therefore, microorganisms in the robusta bean for the fermentation process are expected to reduce caffeine and chl ...
... Amongst the fungi that cause damage to common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and are disseminated by seeds, Colletotrichum lindemuthianum stands out. This fungus causes anthracnose in common bean plants. The use of natural compounds, for example essential oils (EO), is a viable and safer option than chemicals to manage this disease. According to the results of the in vitro assay, we observed complete i ...
... The pulse beetle Callosobruchus maculatus causes potential damage to legume crops by infesting the seeds, leading to a reduction of total protein content. Arcelin found in the wild accessions of the common bean, is an insecticidal protein that has the potency to hamper the metabolism of the bruchid beetle. The arcelin gene from the wild accession of Phaseolus lunatus was isolated and the ORF encod ...
Emariane Satin Mortinho; Arshad Jalal; Carlos Eduardo da Silva Oliveira; Guilherme Carlos Fernandes; Nathália Cristina Marchiori Pereira; Poliana Aparecida Leonel Rosa; Vagner do Nascimento; Marco Eustáquio de Sá; Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira Filho
... Given the hypothesis that co-inoculation with plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) enhances the beneficial effects of Rhizobium tropici with greater mineral nutrition, optimizes biological nitrogen fixation and reduces use of fertilizers in bean plants, the objective of this research was to evaluate the synergistic effects of Rhizobium tropici associated with Azospirillum brasilense, Bacillus su ...
Rafael de Almeida Leite; Lucas César Martins; Luan Valladares dos Santos França Ferreira; Ernandes Silva Barbosa; Bruno Jose Rodrigues Alves; Jerri Edson Zilli; Adelson Paulo Araújo; Ederson da Conceição Jesus
... Some strains of Bradyrhizobium benefit the biological N₂ fixation (BNF) and growth of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) when co-inoculated with Rhizobium tropici under greenhouse conditions. Here, we evaluated the benefit of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens strain CPAC 7 co-inoculated with Rhizobium tropici strain CIAT 899 on common bean in the field. Three Bradyrhizobium strains were co-inoculate ...
... Discrepancies in the published research as to the attraction of the economically important pest western flower thrips (WFT) to different colours confounds the optimisation of field traps for pest management purposes. We considered whether the different experimental conditions of independent studies could have contributed to this. Therefore, the behavioural response (i.e., landings) to different co ...
... Community seedbanks promote conservation and the use of crop genetic diversity, as well as supporting farmer seed systems. This study analyses seed flow and access to crop genetic diversity over time in the Nakaseke, Rubaya, and Kibuga seedbanks of Uganda. The modes of operation of the banks were compared through scrutinizing records of crops and varieties being conserved, quantities of seed distr ...
... The bean beetle Acanthoscelides obtectus (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) is one of the most damaging insects of Phaseolus bean worldwide, particularly in Africa. This study aimed to determine the effect of modified atmospheres (MAs) with CO₂, N₂ and its combination on the mortality and survival of all developmental stages of A. obtectus. All stages were exposed to three gas mixtures [ ...
Bacteroidetes; Firmicutes; adults; bean flour; beans; cecum; chemical composition; dietary fiber; feces; genes; high fat diet; intestinal microorganisms; propylthiouracil; protein hydrolysates; species diversity; thyroid hormones
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... Common bean has the potential to improve gut microbiota function due to its chemical composition and content of dietary fiber. This study evaluated the effect of cooked common bean (CCB) flour and its protein hydrolysate as part of a high-fat diet (HFD) added with 6-propyl-2-thiouracil (10 mg/kg/d), an inhibitor of thyroid hormone synthesis, on gut health of BALB/c mice. Forty-eight adult mice wer ...
... The genus of Trichoderma are mostly found in soil. Trichoderma species are known as probiotic with biocontrol and biofertilizer activity. They are producers of secondary metabolites like volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with antifungal, antibacterial, and growth promoter properties. Trichoderma VOCs can induce resistance to plant pathogens leading to improved plant growth and health. In this stud ...
... Developing alternatives to the chemical weeding process usually carried out in vegetable crop farming is necessary in order to reach a more sustainable agriculture. However, a precise mechanical weeding requires specific sensors and advanced computer vision algorithms to process crop and weed discrimination in real-time. In this paper we propose an algorithm able to detect, locate, and track the s ...
... BACKGROUND: The recently developed Robusta coffee wilt disease resistant (CWD‐r) varieties in Uganda outperform the local landraces, both in yield and resilience. However, their uptake has been slow due to limited information on their cup worth. This study profiled the cup worth of the five most commonly grown CWD‐r across the Lake Victoria Crescent, Western Mid‐altitude farmland and Central Woode ...
... The processing of cupuassu (Theobroma grandiflorum Schum) beans after fermentation gives a chocolate-like product, the cupulate. The high amount of pulp adhered to the seeds hinders the fermentation. Consequently, it is necessary to depulp the seeds to perform the process, even though the pulp contains important substrates for the formation of flavor precursors. To verify whether the complete or p ...
... Organic materials have a nonreplaceable role to improve soil quality and productivity. Yet, processes related to decomposition and nutrient supply capacity are restricted under nutrient-depleted soils. Thus, a field experiment was conducted to evaluate the decomposition rate of leaf litter mixtures treated with mineral nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), and sulfur (S) fertilizer in the form of NPS (19 ...
... Malate dehydrogenase (MDH) genes play a very important role in different metabolic pathways and have been studied in many plant species so far. However the genome-wide study of the MDH family has not yet been carried out in the common bean. For this reason, the MDH family has been characterized in depth at both gene and protein levels and several bioinformatics methods have been used. As a result, ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; Tetranychus urticae; adults; beans; demography; fecundity; life tables; longevity; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; oviposition; pest control; pests; plant physiology; plant protection; population growth
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... In order to study the effect of nitrogen fertilization on the population growth rate of two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), life table data on common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae), were collected at 25 ± 1 °C, 60 ± 5% RH and a photoperiod of 16:8 (L:D) h. Bean plants were treated with four nitrogen levels (0, 75, 150, and 225 kg N ha⁻¹). Data were ana ...
... In this study, a series of novel mesoionic pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidinone compounds containing a natural skeleton indole were designed and synthesized, and the insecticidal activities of the target compounds were tested. The results showed that the target compounds had good to excellent insecticidal activities against white-backed planthoppers (Sogatella furcifera) and bean aphids (Aphis craccivora). A ...
Rodrigo S. Silva; Josias C. Faria; Adriano M. Knupp; Marcelo S. Aguiar; Helton S. Pereira; Amanda L. Ferreira; Antonia L. M. Zaidem; Patrícia V. Pinheiro; Leonardo C. Melo; Thiago Lívio P. O. Souza
... The most important viruses infecting common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Brazil are BCMV, BGMV and CPMMV, the last two transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci occurring simultaneously and causing severe yield losses. Embrapa has previously developed a genetically modified common bean cultivar carrying the 5.1 transgenic event for resistance to BGMV, which is commercially available. This cult ...
... Soybean is a legume that is grown worldwide for its edible bean. Intra-row weeds greatly hinder the normal growth of soybeans. The continuous emergence of herbicide-resistant weeds and the increasing labor costs of weed control are affecting the profitability of growers. The existing cultivation technology cannot control the weeds in the crop row which are highly competitive with the soybean in ea ...
... Fungal phytopathogens require different skills to infect plants and complete their lifecycle. Some proteins in fungi are essential for pathogenesis and their expression is regulated by epigenetic mechanisms via chromatin-remodeling. Macrophomina phaseolina is an important phytopathogenic fungus that leads to considerable losses of different crops, especially during drought conditions. Some biologi ...
... Nickel (Ni) plays an important role in enzyme activity, preventing the accumulation of urea in leaves, participating in biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), proving its essentiality. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of nickel applied to soil on grain productivity, dry mass, and nitrogen, copper, iron, manganese, zinc, and nickel accumulation by bean plants, as well as the resid ...
... BACKGROUND: Predicting the phenotype from the genotype is one of the major contemporary challenges in biology. This challenge is greater in plants because their development occurs mostly post-embryonically under diurnal and seasonal environmental fluctuations. Most current crop simulation models are physiology-based models capable of capturing environmental fluctuations but cannot adequately captu ...
Suryakant A. Patil; Pramod D. Kumbhar; Sandip K. Patil; Madagonda M. Vadiyar; Umesh P. Suryawanshi; Chitra L. Jambhale; Mansing A. Anuse; Jin H. Kim; Sanjay S. Kolekar
... The bio-inspired synthesis of Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles using a common kitchen waste, Bengal gram bean (Cicer arietinum L.) extract (BGBE) for enhanced adsorption of toxic indigo carmine dye is reported. Synthesised adsorbent was characterised by FTIR, FE-SEM, XRD, BET and XPS to understand its meticulous properties. The Fe₃O₄ adsorbent shows fascinating surface area of 78.61 m² g⁻¹ with a pore volume o ...
Phaseolus vulgaris; beans; color; gelation; gelling properties; gels; human nutrition; inositols; meat; pH; protein isolates; seafoods; trypsin; viscoelasticity
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... Gelling ability of a bean protein isolate (BPI) obtained from a naturally low-lectin variety (Phaseolus vulgaris var. Almonga) was analysed. For that purpose differences on gels processing: concentration (14% and 17%), salt addition (0 and 2%), and pH (6.5 –lot A- and 7 –lot B), were studied to obtain suitable colour, mechanical and viscoelastic properties for making appropriate meat and seafood a ...
... The bean bug, Riptortus pedestris, is a polyphagous insect that feeds primarily on leguminous plants, especially soybean (Glycine max). Although the bean bug is an economically important pest of soybean, little is known about how the insect locates soybean fields. In this study, we examined the electroantennogram responses of R. pedestris to soybean volatiles and examined the behavioral responses ...
Ladyslene C. Paula; Ailton C. Lemes; Erika Valencia-Mejía; Bruna R. Moreira; Thiago S. Oliveira; Ivan T.N. Campos; Hiasmin F.S. Neri; Claudio Brondani; Paulo C. Ghedini; Karla A. Batista; Katia F. Fernandes
... Aiming to understand the impact of hardening on the biological potential of bean protein and peptides, we evaluated the antioxidant and vasorelaxant properties of common beans after and before hardening. It was also evaluated the effect of extrusion and autoclaving in the biological potential of hardened beans. In general, hardening caused a reduction from 13.5 to 39.6% on the antioxidant activity ...
... Storage conditions influence the nutritive value and quality of many legumes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of beans stored under hermetic conditions as a strategy for preserving the quality of beans post-harvest. Three bean varieties [Rosecoco, small red (Wairimu)], and red mottled (Nyayo)] were adjusted to three moisture levels (12%, 15% and 18%) and stored in hermetic bags a ...
... This study explored how a thermophilic microbial agent altered nitrogen transformation, nitrogen functional genes, and bacterial communities during bean dregs composting with (T) and without (CK) a thermophilic microbial agent for 15 days. The results showed that the maximum temperature in T reached 73 °C and remained above 70 °C for 8 days, while that in CK was only 65 °C. The pH in T had essenti ...
beans; bound water; dietary fiber; rehydration; slurries; temperature; viscosity; water distribution
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... The bean dregs were treated by ultrafine grinding (U), high pressure (HP), microwave (M), high temperature cooking (HTC) and their combination techniques (U-HP, U-M and U-HTC). The water distribution, viscosity, stability, rheological properties and chrominance and whiteness of bean dregs were analyzed. The results showed that the combination treatments of U-HP, U-M and U-HTC greatly reduced the v ...
... Common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. is an important source of protein and plays a crucial role to enhance food and nutrition security in Ethiopia. However, Mexican bean weevil, Zabrotes subfasciatus (Boheman) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) is a major constraint of stored common bean that leads to quantity and quality losses. In traditional storage structures, the grain storage period was reduced due to st ...
... Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is one of the most important legumes for human consumption. It is highly adaptable to different edaphoclimatic conditions, being an important crop in addressing global food security challenges. The common bean production segment has undergone an intense technological advance, with a focus on the use of technologies to increase the availability of nitrogen (N) and t ...
... The health benefits of bean consumption are widely recognized and are largely attributed to the dietary fiber content. This study investigated and compared the effects of whole brown beans and an isolated bean dietary fiber fraction on the plasma lipid profile, atherosclerotic plaque amount, gut microbiota, and microbiota-dependent metabolites (cecal short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and plasma meth ...
... Captive propagation has become an important tool in the conservation of imperiled freshwater mussels. Previous studies provide conflicting results about the effects of food abundance on survival and growth of juvenile mussels in aquaculture, and the extent to which growth in the hatchery reflects growth in the wild is unknown. We evaluated the effects of abundance of an algal-based diet on surviva ...
Nancy A. Godínez-Garrido; Jorge A. Torres-Castillo; Juan G. Ramírez-Pimentel; Jorge Covarrubias-Prieto; Francisco Cervantes-Ortiz; Cesar L. Aguirre-Mancilla
... In seed technology, the use of biocompatible materials, such as chitosan, has been demonstrated to improve the germination process and establishment of seedlings. This research is focused on the effect of a chitosan coating on the germination and development of sesame and bean plantlets. The seeds were treated with different coating techniques and combinations of chitosan: chitosan solutions at 0. ...
... Pesticides are used to control Tetranychus urticae Koch populations in country bean, Dolichos lablab (L.). The results of using pesticides are more predictable if there is detailed information about their toxicity and specificity. In particular, the degree of pesticide exposure is associated with the adult stages of T. urticae and natural enemies, while determining the overall efficacy of pesticid ...
... The type and amount of salt present in water determine the suitability of water for irrigation. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of different salt sources (SS) and different salinity levels (SLs) in irrigation water on photosynthetic capacity, emergence and seedling growth parameters of eight bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes (G). The experiment was designed as a three-facto ...
... Like other plant compartments, the seed harbors a microbiome. The members of the seed microbiome are the first to colonize a germinating seedling, and they may initiate the trajectory of microbiome assembly for the next plant generation. Therefore, the members of the seed microbiome are important for the dynamics of plant microbiome assembly and the vertical transmission of potentially beneficial ...
... PURPOSE: Okara is a solid waste of soybean-processed foods; it is normally used as a low-priced product, such as fertiliser and feed. An alternative method for the convertion of okara to valorized products is required. METHODS: This research employed Rhizopus azygosporus with fast-growing property to ferment bean dregs using solid-state fermentation technology and examined the functional compositi ...
... African yam bean has immense food and nutrition potential and is resilient to adverse environmental conditions. Despite its potential, the crop is underutilized, which could be attributed to seed hardness (requiring about 6–24 hours of cooking time); and the abundance of antinutrient factors (tannin, phytate, and oxalate). This study evaluated the physical (seed hardness, cooking time) and chemica ...
... The objective of this study is to characterize Carioca bean starch extract from selected cultivars and harvests in different crop years. The starch is analyzed for amylose content, granule morphology, thermal transition (gelatinization and dissociation of retrograded starch), pasting properties, and in vitro digestibility. Carioca bean starch presents high levels of amylose, ranging from 40.06% to ...
... The purpose of this research was to explore the control of common bean root rot disease caused by Fusarium solani by the bacterial strain CTA8689 under in vitro and greenhouse conditions. The strain CTA8689 was isolated from common bean root and identified as Achromobacter xylosoxidans using 16S rDNA sequence, morphological and physiological characteristics. The strain CTA8689 suppressed the mycel ...
... Mycoplasma infections have been found in different species of waterfowl worldwide. However, the question of how the pathogens have been transmitted and dispersed is still poorly understood. Samples collected from clinically healthy greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons) (N = 12), graylag geese (Anser anser) (N = 6), taiga bean geese (Anser fabalis) (N = 10), and barnacle geese (Branta leuco ...
... Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule controlling several steps of plant development and defense process under stress conditions. NO-induced alleviation of manganese (Mn) toxicity was investigated on bean plants submitted for 28 days to 500 µM MnCl₂. Manganese excess decreased plant dry weight and elongation and increased levels of reactive oxygen species and lipid peroxidation leading to up-r ...
... Deep sewage discharge leads to inestimable damage to the ambient water (lakes, oceans and reservoirs), which has caused widespread social concern. In the current paper, a three‐dimensional (3D) buoyancy plume model for deep sewage discharge was developed. It simulates sediment‐laden flow with the effects of temperature and salinity differences. Taking the turbulent diffusion coefficient of salinit ...
... The effects of fermentation on the in vitro estimated glycemic index (eGI) values of probiotic‐rich bean powders were investigated. The main nutrients in the probiotic‐rich bean powders after fermentation were not significantly reduced. The results showed that fermentation led to the reduction of the eGI values of bean powder in experiments with in vitro digestion. It was considered to correlate p ...
... Optimizing the productivity and efficiency of cereal–legume intercropping through exploiting differences in nitrogen (N) acquisition of the two crops is crucial in Mediterranean areas. A two-year field study was conducted in Central Italy to determine how N fertilization rate affected forage and grain production as well as intercropping efficiency in a barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and field bean (V ...
... Species in the genus Erwinia cause diseases in many economically important plants. In May 2021, celery plants (Apium graveolens var. dulce ‘Queen of France’) showing soft rot symptoms were observed in greenhouses in Boye County, Baoding, Hebei Province (North China). Disease symptoms began with pinkish, water-soaked lesions on the midrib of stalks, but at the same time the leaves and roots were as ...
... Collards (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) are grown throughout the United States. Hydroponic greens are more common now due to technological advances lowering the cost and increasing the efficacy of production. In January 2021, a 325 m² indoor hydroponic farm opened to provide fresh produce for a school in Los Angeles County, CA. Three-week-old collard seedlings were purchased from a local nurser ...
... Tree bean (Parkia timoriana), is an important multipurpose leguminous tropical deciduous tree species widely grown in the Northeastern states of India. The occurrence of the high incidence of damping-off (86.19%) disease was observed in tree bean nursery grown in Umiam, Meghalaya, a state in Northeastern India. Therefore, a systematic study was undertaken to record the symptoms and characterize th ...
... A better understanding of bean dynamic threats and pathogens is needed to improve accuracy of field measurement for breeding and mitigation programs. Thus, a two-year field plot study examined associations of bean production, Fusarium root rot, and weed in two cultivars sown under different dates and weed control treatments. We examined six standard curves to model bean leaf area, disease incidenc ...
... Nutrition-rich extruded snacks were developed from a mixture of cornflour, Bengal gram flour fortified by tree bean (TB) powder (0, 5, and 10%) using a twin-screw extruder. The nutritional, antioxidant, and amino acid profile and structural, functional, and sensory properties of the ready-to-eat (RTE) extruded snacks were evaluated. Ash, protein, and fiber content in TB-fortified extrudates were i ...
... This work investigates the effect of pH (4.0, 4.5) and the protein-polysaccharide ratio (1:1–5:1) on the intermolecular interactions and gel properties of food hydrogels based on bean protein isolate (BPI) and xanthan gum (XG). Mixed hydrogels induced by acidification with glucone-δ-lactone (GDL) were obtained at room temperature, without the use of crosslinking agents, and using 1% (w/v) of total ...
... The starch morphology, granule size distribution, apparent amylose content (AAC), pasting properties, textural properties, gelatinization, and retrogradation of 16 common bean varieties are studied. According to the observed phenotypic data, the genetic diversity and inter‐relationships of these starch traits are analyzed. Wide diversity in starch quality traits is observed. Both volume mean diame ...
... Winged bean [Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.] is a neglected and underutilized crop in Thailand, and yet is locally important throughout much of Asia and in some parts of Africa. In Thailand, winged bean cultivars are landrace selections that are mainly grown in home gardens across the country. In this study, the genetic diversity and population structure of 60 domestic (Thai) and 64 imported ...
Willian Giordani; Henrique Castro Gama; Alisson Fernando Chiorato; João Paulo Rodrigues Marques; Heqiang Huo; Luciana Lasry Benchimol‐Reis; Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo; Antonio Augusto Franco Garcia; Maria Lucia Carneiro Vieira
... Root‐knot nematodes (RKNs), particularly Meloidogyne incognita, are among the most damaging and prevalent agricultural pathogens due to their ability to infect roots of almost all crops. The best strategy for their control is through the use of resistant cultivars. However, laborious phenotyping procedures make it difficult to assess nematode resistance in breeding programs. For common bean, this ...
... BACKGROUND: CesA and Csl gene families, which belong to the cellulose synthase gene superfamily, plays an important role in the biosynthesis of the plant cell wall. Although researchers have investigated this gene superfamily in several model plants, to date, no comprehensive analysis has been conducted in the common bean. RESULTS: In this study, we identified 39 putative cellulose synthase genes ...
... Glutaredoxins (Grxs) are ubiquitous oxidoreductase proteins implicated in development and abiotic stress response mainly through maintaining redox homoeostasis. Here, we conducted the first systematic analysis of the Grx gene family (PvGrx) in the most popular legume Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean). A total of 50 PvGrx genes were identified, and divided into four classes (CC-type, CGFS-type, CPYC ...
... A novel enamovirus was identified in common bean plants with disease symptoms. Its genome of 5,781 nucleotides (nt) contains five open reading frames. This virus and other members of the genus Enamovirus share 50.4-68.4% nucleotide sequence identity in the complete genome and 19.9-51.9% amino acid sequence identity in the P0 protein, 24.9-52.5% in P1, 33.4-62.9% in P1-P2, 30.6-81.1% in P3, and 32. ...
... Legume crops (family Fabaceae, order Fabales) constitute a relevant component of the human food supply. In view of the global decline in crop production, as a result of increasing threats (such as habitat fragmentation and land use change) to pollinators, knowledge concerning legume floral visitors can contribute to world food security. In this study, a synthesis was performed of global data on in ...
... Glyphosate applied at low doses can stimulate photosynthesis and yield. The objective of this study was to evaluate the application of low doses of glyphosate and sowing seasons in physiological characteristics and grain yield of common bean of early cycle. Two experiments were conducted in the field, the first in winter season and the second in wet season. The experimental design was a randomized ...
... Breeding of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) shows restrictions in the genetic advance because of the effect of the environment. Therefore, the behavior of the yield components of genotypes varies according to the crop’s environment. The genotype x environment interaction can cause genotypes with high yields in one location not to behave in the same way in other localities, which limits the re ...
Teresa Esteves; Flávio A. Ferreira; Ana Teresa Mota; Ángel Sánchez-González; Adrià Gil; Késsia H. S. Andrade; Carlos A. M. Afonso; Frederico Castelo Ferreira
... Lupanine is an alkaloid used in the pharma industry as a building block or precursor in the synthesis of sparteine and also explored for drug synthesis in the pharma industry as a chiral selector. This alkaloid is found in lupin bean processing wastewaters originated from the debittering process to make these beans edible. In this work, a computational chemistry approach was taken to design molecu ...
... In the context of a warming climate and widespread soil degradation, successful soil management practices in Mediterranean vineyards should combine environmental (e.g., soil health) and productive (yield and must quality) objectives. With this objective, we tested five soil management practices in two organic farms in Chianti Classico (Italy) across three years. Five treatments were compared: conv ...
... BACKGROUND: Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is an essential crop with high economic value. The growth of this plant is sensitive to environmental stress. Heat shock factor (Hsf) is a family of antiretroviral transcription factors that regulate plant defense system against biotic and abiotic stress. To date, few studies have identified and bio-analyzed Hsfs in common bean. RESULTS: In this study, ...
Acyrthosiphon pisum; Sitobion avenae; artificial diets; beans; field experimentation; greenhouses; metabolites; phloem; population dynamics; sap; wheat
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... Many insect herbivores engage in apparent competition whereby two species interact through shared natural enemies. Upon insect attack, plants release volatile blends that attract natural enemies, but whether these volatiles mediate apparent competition between herbivores is not yet known. We investigate the role of volatiles that are emitted by bean plants upon infestation by Acyrthosiphon pisum a ...
beans; energy intake; experimental design; food frequency questionnaires; lifestyle; noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; nutrient intake; obesity; regression analysis; vegetable consumption
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... We aimed to analyze the association between dietary iron intake and obesity assessed by BMI after adjustment for nutrient intake (macronutrients and fiber) and food groups. The study design was cross-sectional. Patients with type-2 diabetes (n = 1567; 63.1% males; mean age 62.3 ± 11.6 years) were included in the study. To assess diet, consumption of typical food groups was determined by a food fre ...