Soybean rust (SBR), caused by the fungus Phakopsora pachyrhizi, has been reported in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivars and elite lines that were infected under controlled and natural field conditions in South Africa, the United States, Argentina, and Brazil. Although SBR is currently not a top priority problem for the common bean crop, many bean breeders are concerned about this dis...

Yogurt is one of the most popular fermented dairy products worldwide, with huge consumer acceptance due to its health benefits. While shelf life still relatively low, freeze-drying could extend yogurt. Other non-milk raw materials that can be an alternative substrate in yogurt are local Indonesian beans, namely Mung bean and Garut red bean. Additionally, added fiber- carbohydrate-rich Manonjaya...

Ethylene stimulated RNA and protein synthesis in bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. Red Kidney) abscission zone explants prior to abscission. The effect of ethylene on RNA synthesis and abscission was blocked by actinomycin D. Carbon dioxide, which inhibits the effect of ethylene on abscission, also inhibited the influence of ethylene on protein synthesis. An aging period appears to be essential ...

In this paper we propose an automatic algorithm able to classify legume leaf images considering only the leaf venation patterns (leaf shape, color and texture are excluded). This method processes leaf images captured with a standard scanner and segments the veins using the Unconstrained Hit-or-Miss Transform (UHMT) and adaptive thresholding. We measure several morphological features on the vein...

This paper presents evidence for the occurrence of proteinaceous inhibitors isolated from Chick pea (Cicer arietinum), Kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), Maize seeds (Zea mays), Wheat (Triticum aestivum) and Millet (Pennisetum typhoides). These seeds inhibitors exhibited inhibitory activity against alpha amylase from red flour beetle, T. castaneum. Out of five tested seed samples Wheat, Maize an...

DL-beta-aminobutyric acid (BABA) is a non-protein amino acid that is an effective inducer of resistance against a variety of plant pathogens. However, examples of BABA-induced resistance against insect herbivores have not been reported. We applied BABA as a soil drench to legumes and monitored its effects on the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris). On tic bean (Vicia faba var. minor), BABA i...

Proteins extracted from the cell walls of Red Kidney bean hypocotyls, tomato stems, and suspension-cultured sycamore cells can completely inhibit the activity of the polygalacturonases (polygalacturonide hydrolases, EC 3.2.1.15) secreted by the fungal plant pathogens Colletotrichum lindemuthianum, Fusarium oxysporum, and Sclerotium rolfsii. The inhibitor of the C. lindemuthianum polygalacturona...

The reducing agents, potassium ferrocyanide, beta-mercaptoethylamine, cysteine, reduced DPN, ferrous sulfate, methyl viologen and ascorbic acid caused the expansion in darkness of disks of primary leaf tissue cut from dark-grown bean plants. The reducing agents interacted synergistically with low irradiances of red radiation and additively with high irradiance of red light. Exposure of disks tr...