In order to analyze and compare the phenolic characteristics of red wine grapes with diverse genetic backgrounds, skin phenolics among 21 different cultivars belonging to Vitis vinifera L., East Asian and North American Vitis species and hybrids, as well as 2 varieties of muscadine grapes were estimated by HPLC-MS/MS. There were 45 anthocyanins, 28 flavonols, 8 flavan-3-ols, 9 cinnamic acids, 5...

  Abstract  Introduction: Diabetic rats display exaggerated hyperalgesic behavior in response to noxious stimuli that may resemble and model aspects of painful diabetic neuropathy in humans. This study was designed to investigate the effect of Nigella sativum (NS) on formalin-induced nociceptive responses (standard formalin test) in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats.  Methods: For this...

Microwave (MW) vacuum dehydration using temperature to control the level of MW power demonstrated potential in improving the performance of the process. Product surface temperature measured by an infrared temperature sensor was used to control MW power at any level between 0 and 3 kW. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated an r2 = 0.942 for prediction of final moisture content and r2 = 0...

In accordance with data provided from Mathematics Modeling Competition for National University students in 2012, it can be found whether grapes are high-quality or not as well as the direct relationship between the grape and wine quality by means of SPSS and other statistical softwares, through multivariate statistical analysis and data analysis, and by verifying the credibility what comments m...

Yellow seeds are a favorable trait for Brassica crops breeding due to better quality than their black-seeded counterparts. Here, we compared the Brassica napus seed coat transcriptomes between yellow- and brown-seeded near-isogenic lines (Y-NIL and B-NIL) that were developed from the resynthesized yellow-seeded line No. 2127-17. A total of 4,974 differentially expressed genes (DEG) were identif...

The present study was conducted at Khorassan Agricultural Research Center in order to determine the amount of seeds in nursery and the best transplanting date for black zira (Bunium persicum) bulbs from nursery to field and to find out the best cultivation pattern in the field. Treatments consisted of six seed rates (20, 60, 100, 180 and 220 kg/ha) which were sown on November 1996. Results reve...

The present study was conducted at Khorassan Agricultural Research Center in order to determine the amount of seeds in nursery and the best transplanting date for black zira (Bunium persicum) bulbs from nursery to field and to find out the best cultivation pattern in the field. Treatments consisted of six seed rates (20, 60, 100, 180 and 220 kg/ha) which were sown on November 1996. Results reve...

Samples of grapes are originating from different Italian areas and purchased from local and Romanian markets.During the fermentation, yeasts convert most of the sugar in the grape juice into ethanol. Grapes may be potent against tumors because of their high concentration of tannin. Selenium enriched yeasts may be a safe source as a diet supplement. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is normally present o...

In this paper we investigate the possibility that there is a first phase of partial ionisation due to X-rays produced by black hole accretion in small-mass galaxies at redshifts 7 < z < 20. This is followed by complete reionisation by stellar sources at z ≃ 7. This scenario is motivated by the large optical depth to Thompson scattering, τe ≃ 0.17 ± 0.04, recently measured by WMAP. But it is als...

REEN gram (Phaseohs aureus) and ,black gram (Ph. mungo) are two important legumes of India and Far East, which are grown principally for their protein rich seeds. Evidence suggests their origin in north eastern India, where most of the wild Phaseolus are small seeded. Inheritance of seed size was studied in crosses among the small, medium and the big-seeded agricultural varieties of green gram ...