The efficiency of brown rice and germinated brown rice as a substrate for probiotic food was investigated. Lactobacillus isolated from goat milk was used for fermenting the rice medium. Brown rice (BR) obtained by dehulling the paddy, was germinated for 48 h. The dried powders of BR and Germinated BR (GBR) were compared for the growth of Lactobacillus sp. and nutritive evaluation such as carboh...

Molecular-bred Coprinus cinereus monokaryotic strains with high lignin- and xylan-degrading activities were mixed-cultured at 27 degrees C in the liquid medium containing 0.5% (w/v) cut rice straw and 0.025% MnCl2. After 3 weeks, the culture supernatant was extensively treated with crude cellulase, showing the presence in it of 9.3% of the total cellulose of rice straw. When rice straw treated ...

Red rice in the US is an aggressive weed that reduces the yield of rice and contaminates its grain. It is the same species as rice, which provides an opportunity for intercrossing. This genetic similarity complicates the management of red rice in fields and rice mills, but also indicates a potential for its use in rice breeding or niche markets. Physicochemical and cooking quality characteristi...

It gives me great pleasure to deliver the keynote address at the Asian Bond Conference organised jointly by the Thai Bond Dealing Centre (Thai BDC), Fixed Income Money Market Dealers Association of India (FIMMDA) and Primary Dealers Association of India (PDAI). It is a matter of significance that some of the major self-regulatory organisations (SROs) in the debt markets of Asia have taken this ...

Rice flour, corn flour and deoiled rice bran blends were used to prepare ready-to-eat extrudates

The physical attributes, chemical composition, and physicochemical properties of 2 medium-grain rice cultivars from Arkansas (Bengal, Medark) and from California (M202, M204) were compared when grown in their respective locations and grown together in Arkansas to better understand the impacts of heredity and environment on medium-grain rice quality. Variations existed in grain dimensions, parti...

A central composite rotatable design with four independent variables viz. blend ratio (broken rice flour and cowpea flour): 90:10–70:30, moisture content (10–18% wet basis), barrel temperature (110–150 °C), screw speed (280–360 rpm) were varied in the development of ready-to-eat snacks using a twin extruder for broken rice–cowpea product. The effects on specific mechanical energy, water absorpt...

the objective of this study was to examine the effects of the fluidized-bed drying me-thod on the final quality of two varieties of iranian rice, medium- and long grain. the re-sults were compared to that of paddy drying using a traditional method. rough rice was treated in the fluidized bed drier at 140ºc for 2 minutes. similar samples were dried for 8-10 hrs by the traditional method. dried s...

Indoleacetic acid and abscisic acid are present in cereal seeds. It is believed that they play roles in seed maturation and germination. Modification of environmental conditions can inhibit or modify germination and seedling elongation. Our aim is to analyse the role played by IAA and ABA during the anoxia seedlings growth in lack of oxygen comparing rice, Oryza sativa, the only crop plant able...

In five cultivated rice varieties e.g., Nonabokra, PNR 381, Taipei 309, Koshika and TKM 11 the response in the initiation of callus and its size varied greatly among varieties, salt concentrations (NaCl and Na2SO4) and their interaction. Better regeneration ability of Nonabokra, Koshika and TKM 11 was found to be correlated to small size callus with a high concentration of Na2SO4. The regenerat...