Tropical American plants, XVI

Protein from Tropical Plants

s of Workshop Papers Abstracts of Workshop Paperss of Workshop Papers TOBACCO LEAF PROTEIN Pilot-scale technology that extracts high-quality protein from young tobacco leaves has been developed. Soluble proteins extracted from tobacco plants might be added to foods as nutritional supplements or for functional properties (e.g., gelling, thickening). Although not fully tested, they might have a s...

Potential Antioxidants from Tropical Plants

Comisión Interamericana Del Atún Tropical Inter-american Tropical Tuna Commission

This paper presents overall scientific estimations on bycatch landings by species, or groups of species, carried out by the Spanish surface longline fleet targeting swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the Pacific Ocean. The mean level of bycatch landed by the Spanish fleet from the beginning of the fishing activity in 1990 until the year 2005 accounted for 42.6% of the total weight landed (target sp...

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-Monetary policy operates in a different environment than it did a decade ago. Financial market innovations have eroded the distinctions among monetary assets, making the definition of money increasingly arbitrary. Deregulation of interest rates and banking activity is changing the behavior of the monetary aggregates, as banks pay interest on monetary assets and nonbanks offer monetary-like ass...

XVI. Miscellaneous