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Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; agricultural economics; biofortification; experimental design; iron; new products; India; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This article reports and provides an explanation for a discrepancy between two theoretically equivalent, frequently used, and incentive‐compatible methods of measuring premia for improved novel products: the full‐bidding and endow‐and‐upgrade methods. We found the following reverse endowment effect in a willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) elicitation Becker‐DeGroot‐Marschak (BDM) experiment for the newly dev ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; amylose; cultivars; pastes; pasting properties; solubility; starch granules; swelling (materials); viscoelasticity; viscosity; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Physicochemical, pasting, and rheological properties of pearl millet starches were studied and correlations among these properties were calculated. Amylose content, swelling power, and solubility of starches varied from 11.57 to 21.93%, 11.11 to 17.91 g g⁻¹ and 12.20 to 15.20%, respectively. Volume% of starch granule size less than 10 µm varied from 36.23 to 48.34%, and 12.16 to 18.75% for above 2 ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; Sorghum (Poaceae); biomass; carbohydrates; chopping; ethanol production; feedstocks; juices; pressing; sweet sorghum; water solubility; water temperature; Show all 12 Subjects
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... The interest for sweet sorghum and sweet pearl millet use as potential feedstocks for bioethanol production has markedly increased in the last few years due to the high concentration in fermentable carbohydrates in their juice. The bottleneck of this production is the carbohydrate extraction process that needs to be optimized. The main objective of this study was therefore to determine the effect ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; amylose; cultivars; gels; models; pastes; temperature; viscoelasticity; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Starch from pearl millet varieties viz. ProAgro 9444 and HHB 67, selected on the basis of amylose content was studied for steady, dynamic and creep recovery characteristics as affected by concentration (3–15%). ProAgro 9444 and HHB 67 possess amylose content of 20.21% and 15.05%, respectively. Starch gel exhibited shear thinning behavior with flow behavior index <1, well described by Herschel Bulk ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; Eleusine coracana; dietary fiber; millets; mineral content; nutrient content; resistant starch; sensory properties; texture; wheat; wheat flour; Show all 11 Subjects
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... The impact of replacement of wheat flour with finger millet and pearl millet flours in Belgian waffle was evaluated for quality characteristics and nutritional composition. Control waffles where no millet flours are present have harder texture with a shear force of 35.86N while the same for the experimental waffles ranges from 19.68N to 27.02N. The waffles which have 30% and 40% finger millet resp ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; Phalaris canariensis; Sorghum bicolor; adsorption; corn flour; crude fiber; crystal structure; hardness; humans; ingredients; millets; water uptake; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Corn flour blends including 25 % of pearl millet, red sorghum, quinoa or canary seed flours, not deeply studied in the extrusion process of corn-based products, were used for extrudates production. Several physical, mechanical and microstructural properties, as well as water adsorption behavior were analyzed and compared to 100 % corn flour systems. The use of these flours increased the protein an ...
... Combination of strategies involving germination-hydrothermal treatments and fractionation were adopted to separates the native and treated grain into coarse (bran & germ) and fine (endosperm) fractions. The inhibitory factors, polyphenol oxidase, and phytase activity were higher in coarse fractions. On treatment, the phytic acid content in the coarse fraction decreases significantly by 49% while p ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; alkali treatment; alkalis; anaerobic digestion; calcium hydroxide; energy efficiency; heat; lignin; methane; methane production; potassium hydroxide; sodium hydroxide; straw; Show all 13 Subjects
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... In the present study simultaneous alkaline treatment of pearl millet straw (PMS) in solid state anaerobic digestion (SSAD) at 52 °C was attempted to enhance methanogenesis. Alkalis (Ca(OH)₂, NaOH and KOH) were added simultaneously as 1, 2, 3 and 4% w/w basis (% alkali/100 g of straw) for enhanced contact time with PMS. Results revealed that mild simultaneous alkali treatment of PMS showed positive ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; arid lands; climatic factors; females; field crops; flowering; heat; heat stress; males; pistil; pollen; pollen viability; rice; seed set; wheat; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Heat stress during flowering has differential impact on male and female reproductive organ viability leading to yield losses in field crops. Unlike flooded rice, dryland cereals such as sorghum, pearl millet and wheat have optimised their flower opening during cooler early morning or late evening hours to lower heat stress damage during flowering. Although previous studies have concluded that poll ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; antinutritional factors; bioavailability; biofortification; cultivars; fermentation; grain quality; iron; landraces; lipid content; millets; open pollination; parboiling; phytic acid; seeds; zinc; Show all 16 Subjects
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... The present study aimed at determining whether mineral biofortified pearl millets will continue to maintain significantly higher iron and zinc contents after processing, and the effects of decortication, steeping/fermentation and parboiling on mineral, phytate and total phenolic contents in eight varieties of pearl millets (two biofortified hybrids, Dhanashakti and ICMH 1201, five improved varieti ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; analysis of variance; arid lands; computer software; drought tolerance; fertilizer application; grain yield; intercropping; mung beans; ridging; water use efficiency; Ethiopia; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Production of pearl millet with yield improvement would have a direct impact on the drought-prone areas of Ethiopia since pearl millet is drought tolerant and early maturing with high water use efficiency. An experiment was conducted to study the performance of pearl millet under different technologies in 2013 and 2014 main cropping seasons at the main site of the research center, Aybra, with the ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; Adansonia digitata; bioavailability; carotenes; fruit pulp; fruits; grain products; humans; intestines; iron; millet flour; nutrient deficiencies; vitamin A; zinc; Sub-Saharan Africa; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Food-to-food fortification of staple cereal products using nutrient-dense plants shows promise to address multiple micronutrient deficiencies including vitamin A, iron and zinc in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is limited information on the potential interaction effects that such food-to-food fortified strategies may have on individual micronutrient bioavailability. The main objective of the c ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; Curvularia lunata; anaerobic digestion; biological treatment; biomass; gas production (biological); lignin; lignocellulose; reducing sugars; response surface methodology; straw; temperature; water content; wheat; Show all 14 Subjects
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... In the present study, biological treatment of lignocellulosic biomass has been performed by employing Curvularia lunata. Optimization of treatment conditions was performed by using response surface methodology to reduce the duration of treatment time. Three factors were studied at three severity levels: temperature – 28, 32, 36 °C; moisture content – 65, 75, 85%; treatment time – 14, 28, 42 days. ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; aquaporins; beta-carotene; chlorophyll; drought; electron transfer; gene expression regulation; genes; genotype; growth and development; homeostasis; messenger RNA; millets; photosystem II; water stress; Show all 15 Subjects
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... Photosynthetic efficiency and availability of water have a close relationship which determines the growth and development of plants. Drought has a remarkable effect on photosynthetic efficiency by affecting the functioning of Photosystem II (PSII). In this study, two drought genotypes of pearl millet were taken and assessed for photosynthetic performance of PSII (electron transport rate (ETR) and ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; amylose; digesta; digestion; dynamic models; gastric emptying; gel chromatography; humans; hydrolysis; ileum; millets; particle size; pasta; potatoes; rice; stomach; surface area; viscosity; wheat; Show all 19 Subjects
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... Consumption of traditional West African pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) couscous delayed gastric emptying in our recent human study compared to other starch-based foods (white rice, boiled potatoes, pasta). The objective of this study was to determine whether physical properties of pearl millet couscous affect particle breakdown and starch hydrolysis during simulated gastric digestion to underst ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; bioavailability; children; corn; debranning; dough; fermentation; fermented foods; folic acid; food matrix; gelatinization; in vitro digestion; soaking; traditional technology; wet milling; Burkina Faso; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Cereal-based fermented foods (CBFF) are frequently consumed by young children in West-Africa. Seven CBFF types (gelatinized doughs, porridges, dumplings, and fritters, made from corn, sorghum or pearl millet) were produced according to the commonly used methods in traditional production units in Burkina Faso. Their total folate content, analyzed using a microbiological method, was between 1.8 and ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; bamboos; biofuels; biomass production; carbon dioxide; cost benefit analysis; cultivars; drought; energy balance; energy crops; feedstocks; greenhouse gas emissions; greenhouse gases; income; salinity; India; Show all 16 Subjects
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... This study was carried out to explore biomass variety of sorghum, pearl millet and bamboo for second generation biofuel feedstock production at salinity and drought prone marginal land at three districts of Gujarat state, India. The biomass feedstock under study were compared with the native crop varieties for its economic sensitivity as well as native varieties of the same crops for energy and ca ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; crop yield; crops; developmental stages; empirical research; fertilizers; nutrition; pest control; prediction; rain; regression analysis; soil; statistical models; temperature; time series analysis; yield forecasting; India; Show all 17 Subjects
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... Several factors, including weather vagaries, possess a serious threat to agricultural crop production in India and also are noteworthy risks to the economy. Crop yield depends on nutrition level of soils, fertilizer availability and cost, pest control, agro-meteorological input parameters like temperature, rainfall and other factors. Further, each particular crop needs specific growing weather con ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; Faidherbia albida; agroforestry; ecosystem services; geostatistics; landscapes; multipurpose trees; normalized difference vegetation index; sole cropping; spatial variation; stover; tree crown; unmanned aerial vehicles; Western Africa; Show all 14 Subjects
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... The trees in agroforestry plots create spatial heterogeneity of high interest for adaptation, mitigation, and the provision of ecosystem services. But to what distance, exactly, from the tree? We tested a novel approach, based upon geostatistics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) sensing, to infer the distance at which a single agroforestry tree affects the surrounding under-crop, to map yield, lit ...
Pennisetumglaucum, etc ; Cenchrus purpureus; chemical oxygen demand; gas production (biological); hybrids; methane production; microorganisms; trace elements; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Holistic approach had been undertaken to determine the suitable conditions for biogas production from Pennisetum purpureum x Pennisetum americanum (Napier Pak Chong1) liquor using the anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR). Effects of factors, i.e. organic loading rates (OLRs), feeding schemes, trace element additions and effluent recirculation rates, on ABR performance were systematically investigated. ...