Objective: A clinically observable metabolic disorder often takes its root from modulation of transcriptional factors which in turn are responsible for perturbed protein expressions and their sequelae. Perinatal perturbations due to chronic prenatal exposure to a certain type of rice could predispose parents exposed to such ‘insult’ and their subsequent offsprings to metabolic diseases. Materi...

Abstract Background Brown spot disease is one of the most destructive foliar diseases rice. Biological control this considered more environmentally safe, but biological agents have limited availability. The fungus Trichoderma can be used as a biocontrol agent for various plant diseases, including brown spots. Indigenous species from West Timor were evaluated in study to reveal their effectivene...

BACKGROUND Because of differences in processing and nutrients, brown rice and white rice may have different effects on risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. We examined white and brown rice consumption in relation to type 2 diabetes risk prospectively in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Nurses' Health Study I and II. METHODS We prospectively ascertained and updated diet, lifestyle...

Rice is an important staple food for more than half of the world's population. Especially in Asian countries, rice is a major contributor to dietary glycaemic load (GL). Sustained consumption of higher-GL diets has been implicated in the development of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus. Given that a reduction in postprandial glycaemic and insulinaemic responses is generally seen...

During year 2008–11, some infected leaves of eucalypt trees (Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.) having blight and spot symptoms were collected in Golestan province (N Iran). The necrotic spots were appeared on both surfaces of the leaves and were circular to irregular, single to confluent, medium brown to light brown with red brown margin (Fig. 1A & B). In some cases, young leaves have been sever...

Rice is an important staple food for more than half of the world’s population. Especially in Asian countries, rice is a major contributor to dietary glycaemic load (GL). Sustained consumption of higher-GL diets has been implicated in the development of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus. Given that a reduction in postprandial glycaemic and insulinaemic responses is generally seen...

Paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food and one of the major sources of dietary arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) in Asia. A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of four water management regimes (aerobic, intermittent irrigation, conventional irrigation and flooding) on As and Cd accumulation in seven major rice cultivars grown in Zhejiang province, east China. With incre...

Alpha amylase (α-amylase) enzyme is used as a thinning agent in the starch hydrolysis and it is widely used in the food processing, paper and textile industries. The intention of the present study was to analyse the α-amylase activity in solid state fermentation and submerged fermentation using immobilized cells of Aspergillus oryzae (A. oryzae) and Bacillus cereus (B. cereus), respectively. Th...

Highlights A rice-leaf-disease detection and classification algorithm for multiple rice-leaf-diseases in a complicated rice leaf image is proposed this article. To increase accuracy, an coarse-to-fine determination proposed. Since features of types such as color, shape, so on are similar difficult to classify even with the human eye, tolerances among those small. The considers enlarging using t...