Abstract Understanding how nutrient requirements of orchid mycorrhizal fungi (OMF) affect symbiotic germination is essential for the ex situ conservation threatened orchids and their symbioses. Yet influence isolate-level variation in OMF preferences on unknown. We tested Prasophyllum frenchii (Orchidaceae) 15 different media varying carbon macronutrient compositions with three Ceratobasidium i...

Knowledge of the peculiarities technological processes for production cow's milk analogues, optimal parameters production, chemical composition raw materials and resulting finished product, in particular amino acid composition, plays an essential role development new types functional products, improvement their stability, taste, nutritional properties, allows them to be enriched with additional...

BACKGROUND The effects of dietary soluble fibers on blood cholesterol are uncertain. OBJECTIVE This meta-analysis of 67 controlled trials was performed to quantify the cholesterol-lowering effect of major dietary fibers. DESIGN Least-squares regression analyses were used to test the effect on blood lipids of pectin, oat bran, guar gum, and psyllium. Independent variables were type and amoun...

Aedes lineatopennis, a species member of the subgenus Neomelaniconion, could be colonized for more than 10 successive generations from 30 egg batches [totally 2,075 (34-98) eggs] of wild-caught females. The oviposited eggs needed to be incubated in a moisture chamber for at least 7 days to complete embryonation and, following immersion in 0.25-2% hay-fermented water, 61-66% of them hatched afte...

Nutrition claims may help people to adopt healthier eating habits, but little is known about the potential cognitive effects of such claims on appetite sensations. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of nutrition claims and individual factors on perceived appetite sensations. According to a three ("healthy" versus "diet" (i.e., satiating) versus "hedonic") by two (restrain...

In the present study, a quantitative dietary exposure assessment of mycotoxins and their masked forms was conducted on a national representative sample of the Belgian population using the contamination data of cereal-based foods. Cereal-based food products (n=174) were analysed for the occurrence of deoxynivalenol, 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol, 15-acetyldeoxynivalenol, zearalenone, α-zearalenol, β-ze...

Overeating is believed to result when the appetitive motivation to consume palatable food exceeds an individual's capacity for inhibitory control of eating. This hypothesis was supported in recent studies involving predominantly normal weight women, but has not been tested in obese populations. The current study tested the interaction between food reward sensitivity and inhibitory control in pr...

A Streptomyces Ds-104 isolate was found to inhibit four multi-drug resistant Candida albicans pathogens with an optimal production of the inhibitory compound(s) in starch, casein, nitrate broth (SCNB) and inhibition zone diameters ranging between 14 and 18 mm. These were significantly different (P= 0.05) from what was obtained in nutrient, oatmeal, inorganic salt starch, and yeast extract, malt...