Complementary foods were formulated from blends of maize, cowpea and orange fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP). Five different flour with the substitution at 5-30%, OFSP 5-20% while 100% maize was used as control. The heated extruded using a cold extruder. samples thereafter analyzed for their proximate, mineral, vitamin compositions, % In vitro Protein Digestibility. moisture, ash, fat, crude prote...

We have studied the accumulation of peptidyl hydroxyproline in the pericarp of developing maize (Zea mays L., Golden cross Bantam sweet corn) kernels. Although this hydroxyproline accumulates throughout development, it is most soluble and its content per milligram dry weight greatest at midmaturation stages of development. Salt-soluble proteins containing this hydroxyproline from isolated cell ...

Yield and ear quality of sweet corn (Zea mays L.) can be reduced by maize dwarf mosaic (MDM). When Janson and Ellett (6) first reported the disease from southern Ohio, they observed nearly total losses in fields of late-planted sweet corn. Yield reduction due to MDM and symptom expression are affected by the growth stage at which sweet corn is infected (5,12, 18,25). When late plantings of swee...

Intercropping is among sustainable intensification tactics farmers may use to increase or maintain productivity and environmental quality. Effects of planting lablab (Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet) one two weeks after maize (WAPM) are not well characterized, especially when mid-maturity cultivars used. Greenhouse (Springfield, MO, USA) field studies (Arusha, Tanzania) were conducted in 2018 2019 ...

Abstract Intensive cropping is considered to contribute negative effects both on soil physiochemical properties and long‐term grain yield, which can be alleviated by appropriate crop rotations. Soil microbial community vary with different rotations, in turn affect quality yield. Therefore, it of great significance elucidate the response rotation. In this study, structural functional changes rot...

in order to study radiation use efficiency and radiation interception in intercropping of herb sweet basil and common bean, an experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran for the growing season of 2008. treatments were 1) sole crop of bean , 2) sole crop of sweet basil, 3) strip intercropping of bean and sweet basil (four rows bean and two...

Eight Aspergillus niger strains which produced strong starch degrading amylase were isolated from the soil using a medium containing Remazol Brilliant Blue (RBB) starch as substrate. Amylase production was detected by the disappearance of the blue colour around the colony. Among the isolates, A. niger AM07 produced the largest clear zone (7.0mm) on Remazol Brilliant Blue (RBB) agar plate and al...

A 6-month-old girl presented referred for FPIES of difficult management. Admitted for suspected sepsis at 15 days after receiving milk thickened with cream of rice, she was hospitalized for suspected anaphylaxis at 5 months soon after her first rice-containing meal. Correctly diagnosed with rice-induced FPIES, she was challenged with maize to which she reacted with vomiting, hypotonia and blood...