233 Plantains and bananas (Musa sp.) are important starchy staples in Ghana. Processing of plantains into flour is limited as most plantain foods are eaten as boiled, fried or roasted. However, after the introduction on local and foreign markets of instant plantain fufu (popular West African food) flour consisting of plantain flour and cassava starch, interest in plantain flours as a commercial...

Background: Blackgram (Vignam ungo L.) is one of the most important legume crops, grown all around world. It used as a vegetable, feed, food and fodder purpose. has lower germination production because its hard outer covering. To improve seedling vigour, priming alters physiological state seed. This change may uniformity, increasing seed vigour or physiology. Primed seeds generate seedlings tha...

Wheat is a widely cultivated cereal throughout the world and stress caused by low temperatures significantly affects all stages of wheat development. Seed priming an effective method to produce stress-resistant plants. This work was carried out determine whether different methods (hormo-, halo-, osmo-, hydropriming) can increase resistance low-temperature conditions (10 °C). The effect on growt...

Sumoylation, a post-translational protein modification by small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO), has been implicated in many stress responses. Here we analyzed the potential role of sumoylation in osmo-response in yeast. We find that osmotic stress induces rapid accumulation of sumoylated species in normal yeast cells. Interestingly, disruption of MAP kinase Hog1 leads to a much higher level of ...

Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, Department of Paediatrics, Physiology and Experimental Medicine Program, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children (K.K., A.I. C., S.U., K.P.T., S.I.); Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology, Sir Y.K. Pao Centre for Cancer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Open Laboratory of Chemical Biology of the Institute of Molecular Tech...