California’s medium-grain rice industry experiences a wide range of head rice yield (HRY). Average moisture of a representative paddy rice sample is the commercially used predictor of optimum harvest date to achieve high HRY. A two-year field study demonstrated that average rice moisture alone is not an adequate predictor of HRY. The history of rice moisture caused by varying meteorological con...

This study was conducted to determine the suitable irrigation dose (0, 40, 80 and 120 mm) to compansate yield and bread-making quality of four common wheat varieties under the Mediterranean ecological conditions for two years. Grain yields of Pamukova, Sagittario, Fiorino and Golia ranged between 2864 kg ha (Golia, 0 mm) and 6021 kg ha (Sagittario, 80 mm). The supplemental irrigation caused the...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important agricultural crops worldwide. However, water is the most important limiting factor for wheat production. This study was initiated to test water stress environmental effects on grain quality and nutritional value of wheat by using single different water conditions at post-anthesis stage. Further analyses were conducted to examine variatio...

Metabolomics is the “omics” that studies the whole metabolome. It has a wide range of applications, inter alia chemotaxonomy, environmental influences, agriculture, etc. Here we review the application of metabolomics in natural product research. The importance of physicochemical properties to drug delivery are discussed in relation to turning metabolomic studies towards drug discovery. We belie...

From a cultural point of view, Maize is the most important crop in Mexico, and also an essential food Mexican diet. This study aimed to evaluate physical chemical characteristics maize grain their influence on quality dough tortillas produced with three native cultivars from western Mexico. Physical, structural, were evaluated, including hectolitric weight, 100-grain flotation index, structure,...

• The likely consequences of future high levels of atmospheric CO 2 concentration on wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) grain nutritional and baking quality were determined. • Two free-air CO 2 enrichment (FACE; 550 mmol mol − 1 ) experiments were conducted at ample (Wet) and limiting (Dry) levels of irrigation, and a further two experiments at ample (High-N) and limiting (Low-N) nitrogen concentrat...

This study was carried out to investigate the physiochemical properties of local honey collected from different flora of Gilgit-Baltistan namely: Herbal, Acacia and Berry, promoted by some local honeybee keepers who are supposed to be famous for quality honey produce. The physicochemical parameters like moisture content, pH, titratable acidity, total sugars, reducing sugar and non-reducing suga...

this paper presents a systematic study of the surface chemistry, porous texture and adsorptive characteristics of prepared new activated carbon using persian mesquite grain. several techniques and methodologies such as, proximate analysis, n2 adsorption–desorption isotherms, scanning electron microscope (sem), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(ft-ir), x-ray diffraction (xrd), x-ray photoe...

Cowpea is an important legume crop in Africa, valued highly for its grain and also haulms, which are a tradable commodity in fodder markets. Fodder market surveys in Northern Nigeria showed that groundnut haulms were priced higher than cowpea haulms, probably because of their superior nutritive value. The economic value of haulms has prompted cowpea breeders and livestock nutritionists to explo...

Three sets of hexaploid introgressive triticale lines, with Triticum monococcum ssp. monococcum (cultivated einkorn wheat) genes and a bread wheat chromosome 1D substituted for chromosome 1A, and one set of secondary triticale lines were evaluated for grain and flour physicochemical and dough rheological characteristics in two generations (F7 and F8). Genomic in situ hybridization (GISH) and fl...