Desirable grain quality attributes vary depending upon the intended end use of grain. Environment, production practices and genetics are all of importance. Nutritional value of grain is most important for animal feed. Dry mill and alkaline cooked products require hard kernels with low breakage susceptibility and high protein concentration. Grain for these uses would best be produced under dryla...

The reaction of ferrocenyldiphenylphosphine with styrene oxide in ethanol gives, as the major product, ferrocenyl(phenyl)(l,2-diphenylethyl)phosphine oxide (5, R = Ph), the result of a rearrangement involving phenyl migration from phosphorus to adjacent carbon in the decomposition of a vinylphosphonium ion arising from protonation and subsequent elimination of water from the initially-formed ph...

Introduction For scanning electron microscopy, our ability to examine wet specimens continually improves thanks to advances in instrumentation; nevertheless, drying wet samples remains indispensable, particularly for high resolution or for a sample that needs to be imaged repeatedly. In many laboratories, the standard method for drying is critical-point drying. In this method, samples are dehyd...

There are four main waste products produced during the harvesting and milling process of sugarcane: cane trash, molasses, bagasse mill mud–boiler ash mixture. This study investigates value proposition different techniques currently not being adopted by industry in utilisation these wastes. The addresses technical challenges environmental impact associated with wastes comes up some recommendatio...

The extraction of lipids from both wet and dry biomass produced by fermentation has been carried out using near-critical dimethylether (DME) as the extraction solvent. Fermentations were carried out from a shake flask to 300 litre scale using the micro-organism Mortierella alpina, and up to a 20 litre scale for Phaffia rhodozyma and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The lipids extracted at a laborator...