Ready-to-eat baby-leaf vegetables market has been growing and offering to consumers convenient, healthy and appealing products, which may contain interesting bioactive compounds. In this work, the composition and the evolution of the phenolic compounds from different baby-leaf vegetables during refrigerated storage was studied. The phenolic compounds were extracted using pressurized liquid extr...

In this paper, clear liquid fermentation condition for ethanol production from Canna edulis Kerl with orthogonal design was studied. We have studied five factors that influenced clear liquid fermentation condition for ethanol production from Canna edulis Kerl by the single-factor test. The five factors were α-amylase amount, glucoamylase amount, pH, nitrogen and auxiliary materials amount. Sele...

Determination of disaccharidase and glucoamylase activities is important for the diagnosis of intestinal diseases. We adapted a widely accepted manual method to an automated system that uses the same reagents reaction volumes, incubation times, and biopsy size as the manual method. A dye was added to the homogenates as the internal quality control to monitor the pipetting precision of the autom...

Three experiments were conducted to determine the effect of increasing field pea level in high-concentrate finishing cattle diets on ADG, DMI, G:F, and carcass traits, and to estimate the NE of field pea. In Exp. 1, 118 yearling heifers (417.9 +/- 2.4 kg initial BW) were blocked by initial BW and assigned randomly to 1 of 4 treatments (0, 10, 20, or 30% dry-rolled field pea, DM basis; 4 pens/tr...

Nerve Garden is a biologically-inspired multi-user collaborative generative 3D virtual world available to a general Internet audience. The goal of the Nerve Garden project is to create a virtual terrarium that exhibits properties of growth, decay and energy transfer reminiscent of a simple ecosystem. The resulting exploration of Artificial Life principles in a shared virtual world yields valuab...

Nerve Garden is a biologically-inspired multi-user collaborative generative 3D virtual world available to a general Interact audience. The goal of the Nerve Garden project is to create a virtual terrarium that exhibits properties of growth, decay and energy transfer reminiscent of a simple ecosystem. The resulting exploration of Artificial Life principles in a shared virtual world yields valuab...

A regulatory protein from grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), LS-24, a close homolog of albumin 2 from garden pea (Pisum sativum) that is associated with polyamine biosynthesis, was characterized and the structure of a hemopexin-type fold among plant proteins illustrated. Crystal structure of LS-24 determined at 2.2 A resolution by multiple isomorphous replacement phasing showed four-bladed beta-prop...

The shoot apical meristem (SAM) is responsible for the development of all the above-ground parts of a plant. Our understanding of the SAM at the molecular level is incomplete. This study investigates the gene expression repertoire of SAMs in the garden pea (Pisum sativum). To this end, 10 346 EST sequences representing 7610 unique genes were generated from SAM cDNA libraries. These sequences, t...

Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) ideally allows for the delivery of the right information to the right student. Strategies for adaptation can be described via the LAG language. The PEAL tool offers many common programming environment features to ease development in LAG but authoring adaptation strategies is still considered timeconsuming and difficult, especially for the inexperienced auth...