Elicitors: A Tool for Improving Fruit Phenolic Content

Elicitors: A Tool for Improving Fruit Phenolic Content

Fruits are one of the most important sources of polyphenols for humans, whether they are consumed fresh or as processed products. To improve the phenolic content of fruits, a novel field of interest is based on results obtained using elicitors, agrochemicals which were primarily designed to improve resistance to plant pathogens. Although elicitors do not kill pathogens, they trigger plant defen...

Linguistic Content Analysis as a Tool for Improving Adaptive Instruction

This study investigates methods to automatically assess the features of content texts within an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). Coh-Metrix was used to calculate linguistic indices for texts (n = 66) within the reading strategy ITS, iSTART. Coh-Metrix indices for the system texts were compared to students’ (n = 126) self-explanation scores to examine the degree to which linguistic indices pre...

Phytochemicals in Fruit and Vegetables: Health Promotion and Postharvest Elicitors

O-11: Immunoneutralization of Inhibin Alpha Subunit as A Tool for Improving Farm Animal Fertility

Background: The objectives of a series of studies undertaken was to improve farm animal reproductive efficiency in terms of embryo production efficiency, conception rate and litter size by immunoneutralization of inhibin in conjunction with other conventional reproductive techniques. Materials and Methods: A recombinant porcine inhibin alpha-subunit mature peptide was produced by mass scale and...

Comparative Analysis of Total Phenolic Content in Sea Buckthorn Wine and Other Selected Fruit Wines

This is the first report from India on a beverage resulting from alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L) using lab isolated yeast strain. The health promoting potential of the product was evaluated based on its total phenolic content. The most important finding was that under the present fermentation condition, the total phenolic content of the wine product...