Despite cultivation and seed import bans of genetically modified (GM) oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.), feral GM plants were found growing along railway lines and in port areas at four sites in Switzerland in 2011 and 2012. All GM plants were identified as glyphosate-resistant GM event GT73 (Roundup Ready, Monsanto). The most affected sites were the Rhine port of Basel and the St. Johann freigh...

Food businesses in the European Union are preparing for a carbon-neutral future by gradually transitioning to circular way of operating. Building upon results from EU REFRESH project, we consider most valuable food processing by-streams Europe and discuss potential safety risks that must be considered while valorizing them human consumption. These weighed against nutritional benefits offered th...

The penetration of the Semantic Web into bioinformatics is not like other disciplines. Given critical data resources such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the challenges associated with the explosion in the number biological databases, biologists, as a community, are already familiar with the advantages of ontologies and the challenges of information integration. Rather than starting from the peda...

Ted Hill is professor emeritus of mathematics at Georgia Tech, and has held visiting appointments in Costa Rica, Germany (Gauss Professor), Holland (NSF-NATO Fellow), Israel, Italy, and Mexico. He studied at West Point (B.S.), Stanford (M.S.), Göttingen (Fulbright Scholar), and Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.), and his primary research interests are in mathematical probability, especially optimal-stoppin...

BACKGROUND There is widespread concern that the cultivation of oilseed rape leads to seasonal epidemics of respiratory symptoms in populations living in the neighbourhood, and it has been suggested that the plant is a potent allergen. A study was therefore undertaken to determine the prevalence of seasonal symptoms in rural populations close to and far from areas of oilseed rape cultivation, an...

The Verticillium genus comprises economically important plant pathogens that collectively affect a broad range of annual and perennial crops. Verticillium longisporum mainly infects brassicaceous hosts, including oilseed rape. The most conspicuous symptom of V. longisporum infection on oilseed rape is black stem striping that appears towards the end of the cropping season. Thus far, the impact ...

Oil structuring using food-approved polymers is an emerging strategy and holds significant promise in the area of food and nutrition. In the current study, edible oleogels (containing >97 wt% of sunflower oil) were prepared using a combination of water soluble food polymers (methylcellulose and xanthan gum) and further evaluated for potential application as a shortening alternative. Microstruct...

Original scientific paper Renewable sources should be preferred by a modern society and this should be done not only in the areas of material engineering. Jatropha curcas L. is a plant with a high potential with many technologically utilized parts among which seeds most of all. The seeds of the plant serve for the pressing of oil. During this technological process worse utilizable commodities s...

Soft mouth melting milk cakes from water buffalo milk were prepared by using milk collected from Experimental Dairy, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India. This milk was standardized to 6% fat. Time-delay and linear layer (design) intelligent computing expert system models were developed for predicting shelf life of soft mouth melting milk cakes stored at 6C. Linear layer (design) mo...