Sucrose binding proteins (SBPs) were predicted to be membrane-associated, but have been shown to localize in the lumen of protein storage vacuoles of various seeds. In this study, a new 64 kDa SBP has been identified from developing mung bean (Vigna radiata) seeds (here termed VrSBP1) via MS/MS analysis and N-terminal amino acid sequencing analysis and specific antibodies were generated using p...

Arsenic is a great hazard to the environment since it is a major source of soil and water contamination leading to phytotoxicity. Arsenic caused reduction in seed germination and growth of plants including mung bean (Vigna radiata) causing loss of crop productivity. This investigation evaluates effect of arsenic toxicity in mung bean with an attempt to ameliorate it by the application of curcum...

For some years now a systematic survey of deoxyribonucleases has been carried out in this laboratory in the hope that a deoxyribonuclease would be found with limited, yet well defined, specificity. A preliminary note of Masui, Hara, and Hiiamatsu (2) described an apparently labile DNase from soy bean sprouts which liberated first deoxyadenylic, then deoxyguanylic, acids. We encountered difficul...

Vesicles permeable to sucrose, but not to high molecular weight dextrans, were produced when fragments of mitochondrial outer membrane obtained from rat liver or mung bean seedlings were fused with liposomes of soybean phospholipids. By using this reconstitution assay, the channel-forming protein in the mung bean mitochondria was identified as protein(s) with an apparent molecular weight of 30,...

in order to evaluate the effects of crop cultivars and living mulchon sunflower yield and weed control, a field experiment was carried out as factorial arrangement based on a randomized complete block design with three replications in 2013. treatements were sunflower cultivars (‘azargol’, ‘allstar’, ‘farokh’) and weed control treatments (weed-free, weed-infestation and intercropping of fagopyru...

the impact of three different fabaceous host plants including cowpea (vigna unguiculata), chickpea (cicer arietinum), and mung bean (vigna radiata) seeds was investigated using biochemical approaches on possible changes of gut proteolytic activity of the cowpea weevil, callosobruchus maculatus at 30±1˚c and 70±5% rh and a photoperiod of 8:16 (l:d). results revealed that ph of 4-5 and 9 was opti...

Physiological changes were examined in the amount of a 50-kDa glycoprotein (gp50) that was recovered in a nuclear fraction from hypocotyls of mung bean (Vigna radiata) seedlings. Immunoblot analysis indicated that the glycoprotein was present in hypocotyls and epicotyls from 4- and 5-day-old seedlings but not in hypocotyls from 2-day-old seedlings. The glycoprotein was not detected in leaves or...

Plants produce a wide array of nutrients that exert synergistic interaction among whole combinations of nutrients. Therefore comprehensive nutrient profiling is required to evaluate their nutritional/nutraceutical value and health promoting effect. In order to obtain such datasets for mung bean, which is known as a medicinal plant with heat alleviating effect, proteomic and metabolomic analyses...

Legume seeds contain 20-25% protein, which is 2-3 times higher than the content in cereals, and have therefore been considered as leading candidates for protein supply to malnourished areas of the world. Mung beans are a good source of energy, proteins, vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. They are relatively inexpensive compared to meat foods and as they have high carbohydrate content. Mung b...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the bacterial and fungal quality of minimally-processed vegetables (MPV) and sprouts. A total of 116 samples of fresh-cut vegetables, ready-to-eat salads, and mung bean and wheat sprouts were randomly collected and analyzed. The load of aerobic mesophilic bacteria was minimum and maximum in the fresh-cut vegetables and fresh mung bean sprouts respectively, ...