This study reports on the use of PALSAR data to retrieve soil moisture content over agricultural areas. An algorithm transforming temporal series of PALSAR data into soil moisture content by using a constrained minimization technique, integrating a priori information on soil parameters, is presented. The algorithm applies to winter wheat and has been assessed on simulated and experimental data ...

Wheat straw was subjected to three different processes prior to saccharification, namely alkaline pulping, natural pulping and autohydrolysis, in order to study their effect on the rate of enzymatic hydrolysis. Parameters like medium concentration, temperature and time have been varied in order to optimize each method. Milling the raw material to a length of 4mm beforehand showed the best cost-...

Background: Wheat is one of the most common food allergens in children. The purpose of this study is to define the natural course of wheat allergy in children with dominant gastrointestinal symptoms and identify factors that help predict development of tolerance. Methods: The prospective analysis covered 50 children with positive food challenge results (DBPCFC) and positive wheat IgE test resul...

BACKGROUND Wheat is one of the most common food allergens in children. The purpose of this study is to define the natural course of wheat allergy in children with dominant gastrointestinal symptoms and identify factors that help predict development of tolerance. METHODS The prospective analysis covered 50 children with positive food challenge results (DBPCFC) and positive wheat IgE test resul...

Solids with exchangeable hydrogens are treated with D2O. The free-induction decay in a pulsed hydrogen NMR experiment is then interpreted in terms of the fraction of hydrogens in the sample which have been made mobile by this treatement. Data are provided for the hydrogen of starch in durum wheat semolina.

Many allergens, such as hazelnut, peanut, charlock, celery, sesame, lupine, walnut, almond, macadamia nut, hickory, pistachio, wheat gliadins, may be present in food products, however, undeclared or as unintentional additives. Due to the growing number of allergic reactions, it is crucial to have fast, reliable methods of allergen detection in processed food products. This review summarizes the...

It has been shown (Malhotra, 1968) that significantly higher amounts of faecal and urine urobilino-gen are eliminated on the non-masticatory South Indian style diet as compared with the masticatory North Indian regime. The present study was undertaken to separate the effect of the pattern of diet from the pattern of eating and also to study the effect of acid and antacids on these values. MATER...

Mapping and monitoring the distribution of croplands crop types support policymakers international organizations by reducing risks to food security, notably from climate change and, for that purpose, remote sensing is routinely used. However, identifying specific types, cropland, cropping patterns using space-based observations challenging because different have similarity spectral signatures. ...

Background Allergens from wheat (Triticum aestivum) can cause three distinct IgE-mediated allergies: respiratory allergy by inhalation of wheat flour, wheat pollen allergy and wheat food allergy. Wheat and wheat products are a main component in human diet, but currently avoidance is the only therapy for wheat food allergic patients. Diagnosis based on wheat flour extracts does not discriminate ...

The effects of some leguminous seed flour (LSF) on the viscoelastic properties wheat, maize and cassava flours were investigated. aim work was to evaluate effect LSF pasting characteristics flours. There significant differences in proximate composition used this study. Three namely Brachystegia eurycoma, Detarium microcarpum, Mucuna sloanei added differently at 0 2% dry weight bases, 0% additio...