The need to meet animal protein demand of ever growing world population, currently at approximately 6.8 billion (US Census Bureau, 2010), is set to increase at an even greater rate as the economies of developing countries improve and their growing affluent populace alter their dietary habits. This means production of soybean, which is used extensively as animal feed, must increase beyond curren...

Oil seeds are an important source of protein in many developing countries. However this protein is not readily available because of anti-nutrients, hence information on the content of anti-nutrients is required. The objective of the study was to determine the status of anti-nutritive factors in some new varieties of oil seeds, viz Sunflower ( Helianths annus ) LSF -11, Sunflower ( Helianths ann...

Human beings are often being exposed to carcinogenic factors during their life, some of which are the nutritional factors. From the mechanistic view, nutritional factors are classified into genotoxic and non-genotoxic agents. Genotoxic agent begins their action at the DNA level, causing DNA damage through several mechanisms, e.g. gene point mutations, deletions and insertions, recombinations, r...