wheat germ, a highly nutritive part of wheat kernels, is separated during milling as a by-product. in this study, wheat germ was used to supplement cakes. different levels of the germ (0, 5, 10, 15 and 20%) at different particles sizes (280, 585, 890 and 1,195 µm) were added to a cake recipe. the results showed that with increasing the germ level and particle size, batter consistency and densit...

In vitro translation systems were prepared with supernatant factors from wheat germ and 80S ribosomes from wheat germ, barley embryos, watermelon cotyledons, pea cotyledons, and castor bean endosperm. Ricin A-chain, which strongly inhibits protein synthesis by mammalian ribosomes, inhibited all of the plant ribosomal systems by 50% when present at 25-45 mug/ml- approximately 23,000 times the co...

lysine is nutritionally essential for humans and animals. it cannot be synthesized biologically in body. children and growing animals have a high requirement of lysine, since it is needed for bone formation. therefore, it must be added to food and feed supplement to improve the protein quality. in addition, lysine has some pharmaceutical applications in the formulation of diets with balanced am...

Nine Aspergillus and three of Trichoderma strains were grown on wheat bran (WB) medium under solid state fermentation (SSF) for amylase production. Aspergillus oryzae LS1 produced the highest level of the enzyme. The thermal stability profile of its crude enzyme revealed the half-life time of more than 2 h at 50 and 60oC. The enzyme production was affected by strain type, incubation periods, le...

A total of 278 different isolates of filamentous fungi were screened using synthetic medium for respective ability to produce kojic acid. Nineteen, six, and five isolates proved to be low, moderate, and high kojic acid producers, respectively. Levels of kojic acid produced were generally increased when shaking cultivation was used rather than those obtained using static cultivation. A trial for...

Although muscle cell fusion was shown to be an energy-requiring process, release of myoblasts from an EGTA fusion block could be accomplished with Earle's balanced salt solution (containing 1.8 mM Ca++) free of glucose or any other energy-produced metabolite. The effect of concanavalin A, abrin, and the lectins from wheat germ, soybean, and Lens culinaris on myoblast fusion was examined with sy...

a bacterial strain (designated as alcaligenes sp. ms-103) isolated from oil sample of the aghajari oilfield in the south of iran, was able to produce an effective extracellular lipopolysaccharide biosurfactant (1.2±0.05 g/l) on molasses as a sole carbon source. the highest surface tension reduction to level 20 mn/m was achieved by biosurfactant produced by cells grown on molasses under optimum ...

      In the present study, four carbon sources were tested for the polyester synthesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 which is a ubiquitous environmental bacterium and is one of the top three causes of opportunistic human infections. These included linear C8 to C11 carboxylic acids. Octanoic acid, nonanoic acid, decanoic acid and undecanoic acid were added to M1 ...

This work investigated the production of the fungi Isaria fumosorosea and Isaria farinosa in biphasic fermentation using agro-industrial products and residues. Combinations of natural liquid substrates, alternative to the complete medium and potato dextrose medium, were evaluated. The best liquid media were sugarcane molasses + rice broth, rice broth + yeast and sugarcane molasses + yeast + ric...

approved Redacted for Privacy Ralk S. Quatrano The activity of a highly purified plant lectin, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), has been detected in wheat embryos as young as 25 days post-anthesis. The amount of hemagglutinating activity present in young embryos increases to a maximum level at 45 days post-anthesis. No lectin activity was found in the endosperm, roots, leaves or in a wheatembryo ti...