Insect pests are highly dependent on starch-rich cereals and cause severe damage to the cereal grain nutrient yield. Amylase trypsin inhibitor protein degrades digestive enzyme alpha-amylase which plays a key role in carbohydrate metabolism as well growth development of insects. These proteins mainly found crops like wheat, maize, barley rich sources starch. Due defensive mechanism against pest...

Thirty-six pigs (22 kg of BW) were used to evaluate a carbohydrase preparation, with xylanase and β-glucanase as main activities, added to either wheat-barley-rye- (WBR) or corn-based diets on performance, intestinal environment, and nutrient digestibility. Pigs were offered 1 of 4 different dietary treatments for 27 d according to a factorial arrangement of treatments (a 2 × 2) with 2 cereal t...

Starch is the primary nutrient in ruminant diets used to promote high levels of performance. The site of starch digestion alters the nature of digestive end products (VFA in the rumen vs. glucose in the small intestine) and the efficiency of use. Cereal grain endosperm texture plays a major role in the rate and extent of starch degradation in ruminants. Wheat grain texture is regulated by the s...

Starch-encapsulated, soy-based, ultraviolet-absorbing composites with feruloylated monoacyland diacylglycerol lipids David L. Compton a,∗, James A. Kenar b, Joseph A. Laszlo a, Frederick C. Felker b a New Crops and Processing Technology Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, 1815 N. University St., Peo...

This update focuses on the starch that accumulates in the guard cells that control stomatal pore size and thus the exchange of water vapor, CO2, and O2 between the leaf and the atmosphere. Transitory starch in these cells plays a key role in determining the velocity of stomatal opening in the light. This significantly differs from the transitory starch in the mesophyll leaves, which acts primar...

Cereal endosperm represents 60% of the calories consumed by human beings worldwide. In addition, cereals also serve as the primary feedstock for livestock. However, the regulatory mechanism of cereal endosperm and seed development is largely unknown. Polycomb complex has been shown to play a key role in the regulation of endosperm development in Arabidopsis, but its role in cereal endosperm dev...

Sucrose synthase (SuSy) is a highly regulated cytosolic enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of sucrose and a nucleoside diphosphate into the corresponding nucleoside diphosphate glucose and fructose. In cereal endosperms, it is widely assumed that the stepwise reactions of SuSy, UDPglucose pyrophosphorylase and ADPglucose (ADPG) pyrophosphorylase (AGP) take place in the cytosol to convert sucr...

Some properties of biodegradable edible films developed from starches acha (Digitalia exilis) and iburu iburua), with glycerol as plasticizer, were evaluated compared. Scanning electron microscope revealed that starch film (ASF) had rougher surface larger size spores. Both showed similar crystallinity pattern made up A-type cereal backbone process induced VH-crystals. FTIR spectroscopy the trac...

In order to utilize low economic value fish for human consumption there is a need for development of novel process for production of acceptable, shelf stable and ready to eat products. The preparation of extruded products from cereal-fish mince mixture is gaining more importance world over and as it offers many process variables to get acceptable high quality products. With more and more fish i...