Studies on Amino Acid Contents in Food Crops (Part 6)

Title : Association analysis of the amino acid contents in rice 1 Running title : Association analysis of rice amino acid contents

Leaves for Food: Protein and Amino Acid Contents of Leaves from 23 Tropical and Subtropical Plants

Leaves are a potential source of low cost protein. By dry weight, leaves of 23 plant types contained protein from 6 to 41%, of which 14 contained 20% or more. Notable were castor bean (Ricinus communis) 41%, balsam pear (Momordica charantia) 33%, cowpea (Vigna sinensis) 32%, and cassava (Manihot esculenta) 32%. The leaves had large quantities of the es sential amino acids lysine, leucine and is...

Free amino acid contents in guinea pig tissues.

Free amino acid contents in various guinea pig tissues were determined with an amino acid analyzer. The most abundant amino acids in these tissues were: Gly and Glu in the liver and kidney, Gln, Glu and Ala in the heart, Glu and Gln in the brain, Gly in the blood plasma and Lys in erythrocytes. Glutathione was present as the reduced form in these tissues. Cystine was not detected except in the ...

Impacts of projected changes and variability in climatic data on major food crops yields in Rwanda

This paper investigated the response of major food crop yields namely beans,cassava, Irish potatoes, maize and sweet potatoes to ongoing changes in climate inRwanda. The projected daily precipitation and temperature data for the period2000-2050 used in this study were generated by stochastic weather generator(LARS-WG) from daily raw data for the period 1961 -2000. These data werecollected from ...

Improvement of protein and amino acid contents in seeds of food legumes. A case study in Phaseolus

Food legumes are considered as the major source of dietary proteins among the plant species. Protein and amino acid contents were evaluated in a wide sample of both wild and cultivated genotypes of Phaseolus species, with a view to investigate possibilities of genetic improvement in seed nutritional quality. Results indicate a variation in relation with taxa, biological status within species (s...