Sugar metabolism is one of the important factors involved in winter hardiness and since the discovery of sucrose biosynthesis, considerable advances have been made in understanding its regulation and crucial role. This investigation examined the changes in activities of sucrose metabolizing enzymes and sugar content during cold hardening of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). Changes in aci...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of replacing sucrose with sugar alcohols (sorbitol, glycerol and xylitol) on the quality properties of semi-dried jerky. Total 7 treatments of jerkies were prepared as follows: control with sucrose, and treatments with 2.5 and 5.0% of sucrose replaced by each sugar alcohol, respectively. Drying yield, pH, water activity, moisture conten...

Sucrose, raffinose, and stachyose are important soluble sugars in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seeds. Seed sucrose is a desirable trait for taste and flavor. Raffinose and stachyose are undesirable in diets of monogastric animals, acting as anti-nutritional factors that cause flatulence and abdominal discomfort. Therefore, reducing raffinose and stachyose biosynthesis is considered as a key...

The aim of the study was to compare two ozone exposure patterns with different peak concentrations under equal dose conditions. Spring wheat (Triticum aestivum cv. ‘Nandu’) was ‘pre-cultivated’ under glasshouse conditions and exposed to two different ozone exposure scenarios (A: 1700–0900 h: 20 ppb, 0900–1700 h: 65 ppb; B: 1600–1200 h: 20 ppb, 1200–1600 h: 110 ppb) in large fumigation chambers ...

The effect of water deficit on carbohydrate status and enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism (alpha and beta amylases, sucrose phosphate synthase, sucrose synthase, acid and alkaline invertases) in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was investigated in the seedlings of drought-sensitive (PBW 343) and drought-tolerant (C 306) cultivars. The water deficit was induced by adding 6% mannitol (water potential...

2. The importance of sucrose interferences depends on the amount of proteins in the sample. For protein content of about 50 gig the determination can be made directly, whatever the sucrose concentration may be. Far larger protein amounts the interferences become more and more important with increasing ~ucrose levels. So it becomes indispensable to dilute the solution in order to lower the sucro...

possessing putative hypolipidemic effects, teucrium polium (tp) have been traditionally used as a medicinal plant in iran. the aim of the present study was to investigate this effect on the sucrose-induced insulin resistance male rat model. thirty wistar male rats weighting 180 ± 20 g were divided into five groups of six each. four groups were given sucrose 50% in drinking water for 10 weeks. i...

Leafless cut Superstar roses (Rosa hyb.) were kept in a 1% sucrose solution. During the first few days of treatment, the abscisic acid content and the water deficit in the petals was higher in treated flowers than in controls kept in water. Later and up to the termination of the flower's life, ABA content and water deficit values were lower in petals of sucrose-treated flowers than in controls....

First-pass hepatic retention of glucose had previously been measured indirectly from the appearance of ingested labelled glucose into the systemic circulation. To determine the accuracy of the procedure, results obtained by this indirect method were compared with those of direct measurement of hepatic retention of labelled glucose given by instantaneous injection into the portal vein. In the ra...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether an oral sucrose solution improves pain response for infants undergoing bladder catheterization in an emergency department (ED) population. METHODS A randomized, double-blinded study comparing the analgesic effects of a sucrose solution to placebo for infants < or = 90 days of age and requiring bladder catheterization. Infants with prior bladder catheterization,...