Drought is an important environmental constraint limiting the productivity of many crops worldwide. Experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of foliar spray of natural extract (garlic extract) on drought stress in two cultivars of soybean (Glycine max) plants. Drought stress caused significant decrease in growth parameters (shoot and root length, area of leaves, fresh and dry weigh...

Pot experiments were carried out during the two successive summer seasons of 2010 and 2011 in the greenhouse of Crops Physiology Research Department, Field Crops Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt to investigate the effect of pollution with cadmium at concentrations of 50, 100 and 200 ppm on vegetative growth, leaf anatomy, yield and certain physiological aspects of s...

this study was carried out to investigate the effects of treated protein supplements with tannin extracted from pistachio by-product (p-pb) on in vitro gas production using fistulated sheep. one portion of p-pb was mixed with four portions of water for 48 h. the extracted product was sprayed on soybean meal (sbm) or canola meal (cm) with an equal ratio (1:1 v/w) and dried in the shade. the expe...

The medium composition for bacteriocin production by Lactococcus lactis ATCC 11454 was optimized using response surface methodology. The selected six factors based on CM medium were sucrose, soybean peptone, yeast extract, KH(2)PO(4), NaCl, and MgSO(4).7H(2)O. Fractional factorial designs (FFD) and the path of steepest ascent were effective in searching for the main factors and approaching the ...

In this paper, crude extract of a Bowman-Birk trypsin inhibitor from soybean meal was firstly isolated by a combination of alcohol precipitation, thermal denaturation, isoelectric precipitation and acetone precipitation. Then this extract was purified by DE-52 ion exchange and affinity chromatography. The results showed that soybean Bowman-Birk trypsin inhibitor (SBBI) was purified to 50.07-fol...

The present study was performed to compare the antioxidative and whitening activities of fermented soybean extract (FSB) and non-fermented soybean extract (SB). Antioxidative and whitening activities of FSB and SB were evaluated by the determination of DPPH, superoxide radical and hydroxyl radical scavenging activities, linoleic acid inhibition activity, and tyrosinase inhibition activity. FSB ...

2-DE analysis of complex plant proteomes has limited dynamic resolution because only abundant proteins can be detected. Proteomic assessment of the low abundance proteins within leaf tissue is difficult when it is comprised of 30-50% of the CO(2) fixation enzyme Rubisco. Resolution can be improved through depletion of Rubisco using fractionation techniques based upon different physiological or ...

Recently, soybean tempeh has received great attention due to many advantages such as higher nutritional value, lower production cost, and shorter fermentation time. In this study, the in vivo hepatoprotective and antioxidant effects of nutrient enriched soybean tempeh (NESTE) were determined. NESTE fermentation process which involved anaerobic incubation was previously proclaimed to increase th...

Several studies have suggested that soybean intake is associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer. However, the mechanism of prostate cancer prevention by soybeans remains unclear. Because prostate cancer is reported to have an association with an increased level of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and soybean isoflavones are known to inhibit 5 alpha-reductase, which is involved in the conversion ...

Changes in the reserve proteins of soybean seeds (Glycine max) were investigated by the techniques of disc electrophoresis and disc immunoelectrophoresis. Three different antisera were used in these studies, an anti-whole soybean extract serum 129, an anti-11S soybean protein monospecific serum 102, and an anti-7S soybean protein monospecific serum 132. At least 6 antigenically distinct compone...