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Listeria monocytogenes; apples; chemical oxygen demand; chlorine; cross contamination; food safety; industry; octanoic acid; organic matter; peracetic acid; water quality
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... During postharvest processing, apples are transported via dump tanks and flumes with recirculated water treated with sanitizers. This study examined the efficacies of chlorine and peroxyacetic acid (PAA) in controlling Listeria monocytogenes in simulated dump tank water (SDTW) and cross-contamination, and evaluated the strengthening effects of octanoic acid (OA), a Generally Recognized as Safe com ...
Gadus morhua; allergens; anion exchange chromatography; anionic surfactants; chemical precipitation; fish; food chemistry; heat treatment; muscle protein; polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; sodium dodecyl sulfate; solubility; thiols; tropomyosins
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... Tropomyosin, a myofibrillar muscle protein, has been recognized as a finfish allergen. In this study, tropomyosin from Atlantic cod fillets (Gadus morhua, CTM) was purified using a two-step purification strategy (isoelectric precipitation and anion-exchange chromatography). CTM structural configuration in two sample matrices (impure and pure) were elaborated using different polyacrylamide gel elec ...
... Cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAPP) and plasma-activated water (PAW) are emerging nonthermal technologies. Due to the complexity of plasma-generated species as a function of plasma generation conditions, there is a need to develop process validation. This study aims to evaluate plasma interactions with DNA-based surrogates using infrared spectroscopy and gradient boosting decision tree, a mach ...
cattle; ecosystems; environment; equations; fire suppression; land use; lignin; organic matter; plant litter; prescribed burning; soil pH; water content; wetland plants; wetlands; Florida
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... Litter decomposition is a fundamental process underpinning multiple ecosystem services. Despite a long history of research on decomposition, direct and indirect effects of multiple interactive land management on wetland decomposition yet remain less well understood. Here, we used a long-term whole-ecosystem wetland experiment in south-central Florida to investigate interactive effects of land-use ...
... Genomic selection has the potential to increase the rate of genetic gain in aquaculture breeding programs by enabling selection between and within families without phenotyping selection candidates. Due to the wide range of environments in which oysters are cultured, an industry-wide approach of multiple regional breeding programs has been suggested for Crassostrea sp. This necessitates genotyping ...
Upinder Kaur; Rammohan Sriramdas; Xiaotian Li; Xin Ma; Arunashish Datta; Barbara Roqueto dos Reis; Shreyas Sen; Kristy Daniels; Robin White; Richard M. Voyles; Shashank Priya
... Maximizing the health, productivity, and sustainability of ruminant animals is an essential societal goal for a variety of reasons including food security, impact on the environment, and global nutrition; however, monitoring the metabolism of ruminant animals is currently a time-consuming and imprecise process. An indwelling robot residing within the ruminant gut would likely revolutionize metabol ...
... An in vitro gastrointestinal tract (GIT) fate of beta-carotene-loaded oil-in-water Pickering emulsions stabilized with lauric acid-adsorbed cellulose nanocrystals (CL) was investigated. Different concentrations (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0%, w/v) of CL and pure cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) were used. During in vitro digestion, the effects of CL and CNC and their concentrations on the lipid droplet diame ...
... The ongoing contamination of groundwater with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has resulted in a global and rapidly growing interest in PFAS groundwater remediation. Preferred technologies that lead to PFAS destruction are often limited by not addressing all PFAS, being energy-intensive or not being suited for in-situ application. We developed nNiFe-activated carbon (AC) nanocomposites a ...
... Changes in morpho-physiological traits are important for biotic or abiotic stresses in sugarcane (Saccharum spp. interspecific hybrids). Ground measurements of such traits are labor-intensive and time-consuming. Therefore, predicting them using aerial imagery can be important for detecting stress and timely management. In this study, ground data and aerial imagery were collected from plant cane an ...
color; defatting; flour; gel strength; gels; hemp; hydrocolloids; hydrophobicity; isoelectric point; micelles; odors; protein isolates; protein structure; proximate composition; solubility; thermal stability
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... Hempseed is becoming an emerging crop because of the potential utilization of its multifunctional constituents particularly hemp proteins in commercial products. Recently, reverse micelles (RMs) extraction technology has been introduced into protein extraction because of its convenience and low-cost nature. The current study aims to investigate the influence of the defatting process on the extract ...
Standardbred; arithmetics; bulk density; geometry; grasses; grasslands; horses; hydraulic conductivity; macropores; meteorological data; pasture management; pastures; research; tillage; New Jersey
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... Growing livestock populations have intensified the potential for detrimental effects of grazing on grassland soils globally. Grazing management techniques can mitigate these effects but they are livestock-specific and studies on horse grazing are rare. The objective of this work was to compare the effects of rotational grazing (i.e., livestock graze sub-sections of a pasture in sequence) with the ...
... 10-Catechyl-pyranoanthocyanins are pigments derived from nature formed by reacting an anthocyanin with caffeic acid. Here, we compared the thermal stability and formed degradation compounds of different 10-catechyl-pyranoanthocyanins. Pelargonidin-3-glucoside, cyanidin-3-glucoside, malvidin-3-glucoside, anthocyanins differing in the number of substitutions on the B-ring, and their corresponding 10 ...
... Agroecosystem management practices, plant-microbe interactions, and climate are all factors that influence soil microbial community diversity and functionality. Herein, we assessed diversity of soil bacterial-archaeal assemblages and denitrification gene markers in a long-term tillage field experiment. We evaluated bulk and rhizosphere soils from two crop years (corn and soybean) of a three-year r ...
Citrus; algorithms; cameras; canopy; computer vision; data collection; fruits; industry; models; transportation; tree health; trees; yield forecasting
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... Yield prediction of citrus provides critical information before harvest to growers and allied industry to predict the resources required for workers, storage, and transportation of the harvest. In this study, three machine learning (ML) based models were developed for tree-level citrus yield prediction: (i) Model-1 utilized UAV imagery; (ii) Model-2 utilized UAV imagery and ground-based fruit dete ...
... Mounting evidence demonstrates that consumption of high fat diet (HFD) and subsequent development of obesity leads to alterations in cognition and mood. While obesity can affect brain function, consumption of select dietary bioactives may help prevent obesity-related cognitive decline. This study investigated the capacity of the dietary flavonoid (-)-epicatechin (EC) to mitigate HFD-induced obesit ...
... The shikimate pathway connects the central carbon metabolism with the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids—l-tyrosine, l-phenylalanine, and l-tryptophan—which play indispensable roles as precursors of numerous aromatic phytochemicals. Despite the importance of the shikimate pathway-derived products for both plant physiology and human society, the regulatory mechanism of the shikimate pathway remai ...
... Integrated crop-livestock system (ICLS) is expected to improve the soil structure and porosity, yet the studies quantifying the effect of ICLS on soil porosity is still limited. This study evaluated the long-term effect of on-farm integration of cover crops and livestock in the croplands converted from the native pasture on soil pore characteristics. The croplands included a traditionally used cor ...
Camponotus pennsylvanicus; DNA methylation; Wolbachia; amino acids; computers; diploidy; equipment; haplotypes; heterozygosity; mitochondrial genome; nanopores; pests; prediction; research; symbionts; North America
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... The black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) is a pest species found widely throughout North America. From a single individual I used long-read nanopore sequencing to assemble a phased diploid genome of 306 Mb and 60X coverage, with quality assessed by a 97.0% BUSCO score, improving upon other ant assemblies. The mitochondrial genome reveals minor rearrangements from other ants. The reads a ...
... This work leverages recent advancements in computer vision and deep learning to detect and track the motion of droplets captured by a camera. While classical computer vision techniques have been employed for detection and tracking, those approaches have limitations and are not trivially extended to droplets. We approach the problems of droplet detection and tracking through a data-driven framework ...
... Manure amendments are a common soil amendment in forage and row cropping systems used to provide plant-available nutrients, build soil organic matter, and enhance soil health. Many of the benefits of manure applications are thought to be driven via their impacts on soil microbial communities. However, manure amendments may also introduce potential undesirable microbes (pathogens, or those with ant ...