Knowledge of digestion kinetics of solid foods in human stomach, as affected by food processing methods, is critical in establishing processing conditions at the manufacturing stage to achieve desirable release of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. The objective of this study was to investigate how roasting affected disintegration and solid release properties of almond in simulated gastri...

intercropping is one of the management methods for crop production and leads to improvement of resource absorption and use by plants. based on this purpose the present field study was conducted to evaluate radiation absorption and uses efficiency in corn and bean strip intercropping at the farm of the faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran during 2009. the experiment was s...

The use of infrared (IR) heating for improving the microbial safety and processing efficiency of dryroasted almonds was investigated. Almonds were roasted at 130, 140 and 150 C with three different methods: IR roasting, sequential infrared and hot air (SIRHA) roasting, and traditional hot air (HA) roasting. The heating rate and pasteurization efficacy of almonds under different roasting methods...

Apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) grown in a Mediterranean climate depends on regular irrigation throughout the growing season. The objective of the current study was to elucidate the changes in carbohydrate storage and utilization by mature, field-grown apple trees in response to water availability to the trees and to the level of cropping. Fourteen-year-old apple trees cv. 'Golden Delicious' w...

To determine the effects of straw incorporation on soil nutrients, enzyme activity, and aggregates in tobacco fields, we conducted experiments with different amounts of wheat and maize straw in Zhucheng area of southeast Shandong province for three years (2010–2012). In the final year of experiment (2012), straw incorporation increased soil organic carbon (SOC) and related parameters, and impro...

The effects of maturity of maize at harvest, level of inclusion and potential interactions on the performance, carcass composition, meat quality and potential concentrate-sparing effect when offered to finishing beef cattle were studied. Two maize silages were ensiled that had dry matter (DM) concentrations of 217 and 304 g/kg and starch concentrations of 55 and 258 g/kg DM, respectively. Grass...

to investigate the effect of different amounts of fe and mn on qualitative and quantitative traits of forage maize (zea mays l.) hybrid single cross 704, an experiment was conducted as a factorial in a randomized complete block design with 16 treatments and three replications at qaneat city (southern khorasan province) in 2010. treatments consisted of 4 levels of feso4 (no fertilizer as control...

To understand the drought response mechanisms of dry matter partitioning maize, pot experiments under conditions were conducted during vegetative and reproductive growth periods maize. The aim was to calculate allometric relationships between weight different organs their responses drought. Results showed that roots, above-ground plant, total biomass gradually increased with maize approaching m...

the seedbed preparation and cereal residue present due to limit of maize (zea mays l.) growing period are a major challenge in double cropping after winter cereals in iran as: shahrekord. in this research, effects of various seedbed preparation methods and crop residuea managements on vegetative growth and yield of forage maize (ksc 704) were studied in a barley-maize double cropping during 200...

somayyeh bayat and ali sepehri * department of agronomy and plant breeding, faculty of agricultre, bu-ali sina university of hamedan, iran       *corresponding author: e-mail. [email protected], [email protected]   received: 31 may 2012  accepted: 8 october 2012   abstract growth and yield of maize is seriously restricted by water deficit. salicylic acid (sa) and paclobutrazol )pbz) indu...