BACKGROUND In Brazil, coffee (Coffea arabica) husks are reused in several ways due to their abundance, including as stall bedding. However, field veterinarians have reported that horses become intoxicated after ingesting the coffee husks that are used as bedding. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether coffee husk consumption causes intoxication in horses. RESULTS Six horses fed c...

Barley is the only crop in the Poaceae family with adhering husks at maturity. The color of husk at barely development stage could influence the agronomic traits and malting qualities of grains. A barley mutant with a white husk was discovered from the malting barley cultivar Supi 3 and designated wh (white husk). Morphological changes and the genetics of white husk barley were investigated. Hu...

The mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus has nutritional and medicinal characteristics that depend on the growth substrate. In nature, this fungus grows on dead wood, but it can be artificially cultivated on agricultural wastes (coffee husks, eucalyptus sawdust, corncobs and sugar cane bagasse). The degradation of agricultural wastes involves some enzyme complexes made up of oxidative (laccase, mangane...

Rice has fed more people than any other crop has for thousands of years. The ancient Indian name for rice, Dhanya, means “sustenance for the human race.” Especially in much of Asia, life without rice has been unthinkable. Rice feeds more than half of the world population, but most rice is consumed within 10 miles of where it is produced. Rice is the 2nd largest crop in planting acreage after wh...

This paper addresses the potential use of Rice Husk Ash (RHA) as a cementitious material in concrete mixes. RHA is produced from the burning of rice husk which is a byproduct of rice milling. The ash content is about 18-22% by weight of the rice husks. Research has shown that concrete made with RHA as a partial cement substitute to levels of 10% to 20% by weight of cement has superior performan...

As a source of renewable energy, agricultural by-products after pre-processing and cleaning in post-harvest lines can be used as feedstock for the production pellets or briquettes. This achieved by determining physicochemical properties by-products. Groundnut pods, maize cobs husks rice, millet sorghum were considered, their determined, which then compared with standard briquettes to ascertain ...

Abstract Perchlorate concentrations in 387 unhusked rice samples from 15 main producing provinces/municipality China were investigated by high-performance liquid chromatography–tanden mass spectrometry. The results indicated that perchlorate displays a mean level of 17.17 μg/kg samples. Intriguingly, we also found is mainly observed husk among these collected samples, while less bran and milled...