Capitate glandular trichomes (CGT), one type of glandular trichomes, are most common in Asteraceae species. CGT can produce various secondary metabolites such as sesquiterpene lactones (STLs) and provide durable resistance to insect pests. In sunflower, CGT-based host resistance is effective to combat the specialist pest, sunflower moth. However, the genetic basis of CGT density is not well und...

In algal pond used for treating wastewater, a part of the solar radiation (PAR) is by algae photosynthesis, and rest energy wasted. To date, no studies have been conducted that optimize these aspects (wasted heat production) from an operational cost perspective. Therefore, model developed estimation photosynthetically active radiation. Subsequently, derived PAR was utilized in optimization algo...

BACKGROUND Previous research has estimated that wasted food in the United States contains between 1,249 and 1,400 kcal per capita per day, but little is known about amounts of other nutrients embedded in the 31% to 40% of food that is wasted. OBJECTIVE This research aimed to calculate the nutritional value of food wasted at the retail and consumer levels in the US food supply, and contextuali...

Innovative and decentralized biorefineries are needed in urban areas to contribute local resource efficiency. In this case study a biorefinery (waste-to-resource-unit, W2RU) is introduced for bioconversion of food waste using heterotrophic microalgae protein-rich biomass, simultaneous extraction high-value chemicals pigments (e.g., astaxanthin, β-carotene, lycopene, lutein, or riboflavin), vita...

The objective of the study was to examine influence moisture content on mechanical properties solid biomass, which is important for storage and handling. Mechanical involving powder flowability were determined with a Jenike shear tester. materials tested powdered biomass: sunflower husks, apple pomace, dried distillers grains solubles (DDGS), meat bone meal. In static operations in biomass gene...

IVANOVA, P., V. CHALOVA, L. KOLEVA, I. PISHTIYSKI and M. PERIFANOVA – NEMSKA, 2012. Optimization of protein extraction from sunflower meal produced in Bulgaria. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 18: 153-160 Sunflower meal obtained after defatting of sunflower seeds is a by-product, which has the potential to serve as an attractive source for the preparation of protein isolates for food purposes. Protein ex...

Identifying the best inbred combinations for the development of commercial hybrid of sunflower remains the main challenge to sunflower breeders. In the present research the level of heterosis of F1 hybrids, genetic diversity of parental lines based on SSR markers, as well as its connection with specific combining ability of sunflower were studied. Ten sunflower elite inbred lines (3 restorer li...

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) oil remains under-utilised albeit one of the major seed oils produced world-wide. Moreover, the high oleic sunflower varieties make the oil attractive for applications requiring high temperature processes and those targeting the C=C double bond functionality. Herein an overview of the recent developments in olefin metathesis of sunflower-based feedstocks is pres...

0306-2619/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.06.016 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (G. H Biodiesel has received much attention in recent years. Although numerous reports are available on the production of biodiesel from vegetable oils of terraneous oil-plants, such as soybean, sunflower and palm oils, the production of biodiese...

The biology and behavior of the longhorned beetle Dectes texanus LeConte (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) was studied on two host plants that suffer economic losses from this pest; sunflower, Helianthus annuus, and soybean, Glycines max. Reciprocal crosses of D. texanus collected from the two plants all produced viable progeny, indicating that conspecific insects attack both crops. Pupae from soybean...