The physicochemical properties of bovine prothrombin and of bovine thrombin were previously described in this journal (1, 2). A derivative of bovine prothrombin, autoprothrombin II, has now been obtained in sufficient quality and quantity for study. In this report we describe some of the physicochemical properties of our product, including sedimentation coefficient, diffusion coefficient, intri...

The application of modern non-destructive testing methods on grain quality testing had important implications for grain production, distribution and sale. In the paper, five test methods of modern electronic information technology, which were near-infrared spectroscopy, electronic nose, machine vision, magnetic resonance and acoustic vibrations, were described, the research progress of near-inf...

Grain appearance quality and milling quality are the main determinants of market value of rice. Breeding for improved grain quality is a major objective of rice breeding worldwide. Identification of genes/QTL controlling quality traits is the prerequisite for increasing breeding efficiency through marker-assisted selection. Here, we reported a genome-wide association study in indica rice to ide...

Varietal purity and proportions of grains with brown spots, fissured grains, chalky grains andwhole grains in a rice sample are important grain quality attributes influencing consumers'preference and price but little information exist on how these grain quality attributes are affectedby biophysical factors and pre-harvest practices. Several authors have studied in isolation theeffect of biophys...

Lipophilicity is a key physicochemical property that plays a critical role in determining ADMET properties and the overall suitability of drug candidates. Increasing evidence suggests that control of physicochemical properties like lipophilicity, within a defined optimal range, can improve compound quality and the likelihood of therapeutic success. Particular attention to this optimum region of...

In the crown of the year, inspection of wheat quality fast and accurate is very important for all of grain enterprises, farmers and governments. Governments would like to construct a fair and equitable market for grain transaction with explicit grain quality standard. Farmers would like to sell their high-quality grain at a high unit price for they have paid more attention and investment. Enter...

The normal intersurface forces between nanosized probe tips functionalized with COO-- and NH3+-terminated alkanethiol self-assembling monolayers and dense polycrystalline phase pure synthetic hydroxyapatite (HA) were measured via a powerful nanomechanical technique called chemically specific high-resolution force spectroscopy. The data taken on approach of the probe tip to the HA surface was co...

Physicochemical properties of 10 rice advanced breeding lines (BC2F7) across 3 environments in Malaysia were evaluated. Highly significant G × E interactions for all measured quality traits were detected using ANOVA, and the additive main effect and multiplicative interaction (AMMI) statistical model was applied to analyze them. The results showed that the grain quality parameters had large gen...