Sugar and spice and everything nice.

Sugar and spice and all things NICE.

Sugar and Spice and all things nice? Assessing the Impact of the 2006 EU sugar regime reforms

This paper investigates the economic impacts of the reforms both on the EU sugar sector but also more globally and examines the intended and unintended consequences of the reforms. This provides insights into the likely impacts of the further reforms proposed for 2015 – namely the removal of sugar beet quotas within the EU. We find, in line with other studies that whilst the reforms have improv...

Starch and sugar conversion in Dioscorea esculenta tubers and Curcuma longa rhizomes during storage

An investigation was carried out to reveal the changes in the concentration of soluble carbohydrates under tuber dormancy in food yam (Dioscorea esculenta) tubers and in an economically important spice cum medicinal plant turmeric (Curcuma longa) rhizomes under storage. Harvested, fully matured tubers of yam and rhizomes of turmeric were stored in wooden boxes under the conditions of 28 ? 2?C t...

Sugar (ribose), spice (peroxidase) and all things nice (laccase hair‐dyes)

Carmen Michán,1 Craig Daniels,2 Matilde Fernández,3 Jennifer Solano,3 Ana MSánchez de la Campa2 and Juan L. Ramos2 Universidad de Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, Department. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Edificio Severo Ochoa C-6, 2 Planta, 14071, Córdoba, Spain. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Department. of Environmental Protection, C/...

What Are Little Learners Made of? Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice, and Leptin and TNF and Melatonin

Two articles in this special section introduce a set of hormones which have been shown, in basic research, to play a role in cognition and learning, but which have not as of yet reached the public eye and educators’ and policy-makers’ attention. A prior special sectionof this journal focusedonstresshormones, and in particular the stress-sensitive hormone cortisol, and its potential role in lear...