The nutrient and anti nutrient composition of some standardized sweet potato dishes in Kwara state was determined using official methods of analysis. The indigenous sweet potato dishes analysed included pounded sweet potato/yam; sweet potato leaf soup; boiled sweet potato; fried sweet potatoes and sweet potato/ beans pottage. There were significant differences (p < 0.05) for moisture content wh...

A nationwide survey was performed to investigate the current incidence of viral diseases in Korean sweet potatoes for germplasm and growing fields from 2011 to 2014. A total of 83.8% of the germplasm in Korea was infected with viruses in 2011. Commercial cultivars that were used to supply growing fields were infected at a rate of 62.1% in 2012. Among surveyed viruses, the incidence of five Poty...

Abstrak.Provinsi Aceh merupakan salah satu daerah yang berpotensi dalam produktivitas jeruk besar dan penyumbang tertinggi di Indonesia. Produksi didominasi oleh lima kecamatan menghasilkan produksi terbanyak dari 23 Kabupaten/Kota Aceh, satunya Kabupaten Bireuen. Jeruk (putih manis) kultivar unggul dikembangkan Ketersediaan belum tersedia secara kontinu pasaran. Kondisi tersebut menyebabkan pe...

Florida has a long association with citrus ( Citrus sp.) production. However, the industry in been devastated by Huanglongbing (HLB) or greening disease Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus). HLB affects tree phloem and eventually causes death. Cover crops, noncash have traditionally used row crop production to improve soil organic matter, for nitrogen fixing, weed control. growers may benefit fro...

Abstract Understanding the chemical past of our Sun and how life appeared on Earth is no mean feat. The best strategy we can adopt to study newborn stars located in an environment similar one which was born assess their content. In particular, hot corinos are prime targets because recent studies have shown correlations between interstellar complex organic molecules abundances from comets. ORion...

Methyl 2-benzimidazole carbamate, most commonly known as carbendazim, is a widely used broad-spectrum benzimidazole fungicide and a decomposition product of benomyl. Carbendazim is used to control plant diseases in cereals and fruit, including citrus, bananas, strawberries, pineapples, and pome fruits. Although not permitted for use to treat citrus fruit in the USA and Australia, it is permitte...

A range of psychophysical taste measurements are used to characterize an individual's sweet taste perception and to assess links between taste perception and dietary intake. The aims of this study were to investigate the relationship between four different psychophysical measurements of sweet taste perception, and to explore which measures of sweet taste perception relate to sweet food intake. ...

These studies examined the differences in sweet taste perception and implicit attitude toward sweet between normal-weight and overweight/obese adults; and tested the effects of soft drink consumption on sweet taste, explicit preference and implicit attitude toward sweet in normal-weight subjects. In study 1, normal-weight (n = 22) and overweight/obese (n = 11) adults were assessed for sweet tas...