With approximately 11 million habitants, Guatemala is mostly a rural country, with 60 percent of the population living on farms and 50 percent of the population indigenous. Maize and beans are the main staple food in most households, with a per capita consumption of 9.4 kg per year. Since few other sources of protein are available, this amount is not sufficient to ensure an acceptable nutrition...

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Germination is a method that can modify the presence of nutrients and antinutrients in legume seeds. In this study, the changes in trypsin inhibitors activity (TIA), phytic acid, tannins, ascorbic acid, thiamine, protein digestibility and minerals in germinated black beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), white beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and pigeon beans (Cajanus cajan L. Millsp) were evaluated. The...

the population density and spatial distribution pattern of empoasca decipiens paoli were etermined in tehran area, iran, during 2004-2005 on four species of common bean phaseolus vulgaris (l.) var. talash, lima bean p. lunatus (l.) savi ex hassk. var. sadaf, rice bean p. calcaratus roxb. var. goli and cowpea vigna sinensis (l.) var. parastoo. the higher and lower mean population densities of e....

Results are presented of the effect of freezing followed by thawing (air and water immersion, both at environmental temperature) and cooking (traditional boiling in a covered pot) on quality profile (in terms of objective texture, colour, chlorophylls and pheophytins and sensory attributes) and structure of green beans (cv. Win). Freezing was carried out at three different rates by forced conve...

Introduction The well known habit of children to place objects in mouth frequently leads to impaction of foreign body in tracheobronchial tree. It is one of the leading causes of accidental home deaths in children under 6 years. (1) The major issue involves the accurate diagnosis, speedy and safe retrieval of the foreign body. The accurate diagnosis may elude even the sophisticated physician be...

Legume seeds stored under high temperature and humidity develop a texture defect known as hard-tocook (HTC). Structural and histochemical characteristics of normal and HTC beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) were studied after storing them at 5°C/40% relative humidity (RH) or 40°C/75% RH for 60 days. Cotyledonary cells of HTC beans showed contraction of the cell content, whereas the cytoplasm of normal ...

Common bacterial blight is a devastating seed-borne disease of common beans that also occurs on other legume species including lablab and Lima beans. We sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 26 strains of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli and X. fuscans subsp. fuscans, the causative agents of this disease, collected over four decades and six continents. This revealed considerable genetic vari...

In this work, we evaluated antioxidant and metal chelating activities of common bean proteins. Protein fractions were produced by using extraction with organic (method 1) or aqueous (method 2) solvents. Results evidenced that the amount of proteins extracted through method 2 was higher than method 1, probably due the chemical difference between solvents. The antioxidant activity of hard-to-cook...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to determine if a biofortified variety of black bean can provide more bioavailable-iron (Fe) than a standard variety. Two lines of black beans (Phaseolus-vulgaris L.), a standard (DOR500; 59μg Fe/g) and biofortified (MIB465; 88μg Fe/g) were used. The DOR500 is a common commercial variety, and the MIB465 is a line developed for higher-Fe content. Given the high preva...