The injury caused by frost is characterised by browning of the canopy and the leaf sheaths, but the growing point may also be severely damaged by destruction of some or all of the meristematic tissue. Experience gained in previous years has served to indicate that frosted cane does not in all cases deteriorate with the same raviditv. Thus, when rain falls on cane damaged by frcst, or conditions...

Recovery of sugars from cane molasses (i.e. the by-product of sugar industries) is of great interest to industry and academia. The prerequisite for refning cane molasses is removal of pigments and suspended solids present in the molasses. In this work, the utilization of membrane separation for clarifcation and decoloration of cane molasses has been examined. Three oper...

Affiliations 1 MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS), Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN 2 Institute of Clinical Sciences (ICS), Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN 3 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London 4 Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London + Denotes shared first author...

This study was performed in order to evaluate the effect of dried yeast from sugar cane when replacing soybean meal in dairy heifers’ diets. Twenty-four heifers, with an initial body weight (BW) of 178 kg, were distributed in a completely randomized design. The treatments were four levels of inclusion of dried yeast from sugar cane replacing to soybean meal (0, 33, 67 and 100% on a dry matter (...

Temperature has pervasive effects on physiological processes and is critical in setting species distribution limits. Since invading Australia, cane toads have spread rapidly across low latitudes, but slowly into higher latitudes. Low temperature is the likely factor limiting high-latitude advancement. Several previous attempts have been made to predict future cane toad distributions in Australi...

The actual mechanism controlling the extraction of sucrose from cane in diffusers is still in dispute. It is generally believed that displacement washing or lixiviation is the governing process. Cane diffusers have been adapted from the vegetable oil extraction industry via the beet industry. A considerable portion of Chemical Engineering solid-liquid extraction design theory has been developed...

Commonly, invaders have different impacts in different places. The spread of cane toads (Rhinella marina: Bufonidae) has been devastating for native fauna in tropical Australia, but the toads' impact remains unstudied in temperate-zone Australia. We surveyed habitat characteristics and fauna in campgrounds along the central eastern coast of Australia, in eight sites that have been colonized by ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate low and high Brix diets, treated or not with 5 g of calcium oxide per kg of natural matter, and corn silage on intake, digestibility and performance of beef cattle. Forty cattle with initial body weight (BW) of 350 kg were used: five composed the control group, 30 were distributed into random blocks (control) and the other five were distributed in a 5...

Samples of filtercake from all mills in the South African and Swaziland sugar industries were analysed for nutrient composition at regular intervals during 1979. It was found that at those mills using the cane diffusion process average P, Ca, Mg, Zn and Mn percentage contents of filtercake were considerably higher than those from factories where tandem rollers were used to crush cane. This can ...

The extent of locomotion assistance gained through cane usage by those with hip disorders is assayed. Employing as a standard the propulsive impulse delivered by each lower limb of a healthy young male, the cane is shown to supply about one-fifth the equivalent impulse, aside from other possible benefits. Full test values are given for nine handicapped subjects.