To elucidate the effects of cultivar and harvest month on the phenolic content and antioxidant activity of mulberry leaves, four major phenolics, including chlorogenic acid (ChA), benzoic acid (BeA), rutin (Rut) and astragalin (Ast), were quantified using an HPLC-UV method. Leaves from six mulberry cultivars, collected from April to October, were analyzed. The antioxidant activity of mulberry l...

Apart from being fed to silkworms in sericulture, the ecologically important Mulberry plant has been used for traditional medicine in Asian countries as well as in manufacturing wine, food, and beverages. Germplasm analysis among Mulberry cultivars originating from South Korea is crucial in the plant breeding program for cultivar development. Hence, the genetic deviations and relations among 8 ...

In this study, the pH of mulberry juice was optimized for high anthocyanin content and an attractive red color. Mulberry juice pH values of 2.5, 4.0, 6.0, and 8.0 were evaluated. A pH of 2.5 gave an anthocyanin content of 541.39 ± 106.43 mg of cyanidin-3-glucoside per liter, and the a* value was 14 ± 1.00. The effects of stabilizers (CMC and xanthan gum) on the physical characteristics of cloud...

Xylella fastidiosa causes bacterial leaf scorch in landscape trees, including mulberry. We determined the draft genome of the mulberry strain Mul-MD in order to gain a better understanding of the molecular basis of strain divergence, host specificity, nutrient requirements, and pathogenicity, as well as to develop genome-based specific detection methods.

In this paper, we transform the issue of Chinese-English tense conversion into the issue of tagging a Chinese tense tree. And then we propose Markov Tree Tagging Model to tag nodes of the untagged tense tree with English tenses. Experimental results show that the method is much better than linear-based CRF tagging for the issue.

We compare different parse tree representations for the task of Chinese Semantic Role Labeling (SRL), including dependency and constituency parse trees, two tree pruning methods, and neighbor features. Three learning models are compared. By using SVM classifier with neighbor features and pruning tree to phrase level we achieve significantly better speed and accuracy than state of the art Chines...

While the recent release of the Chinese tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri chinensis) genome has made the tree shrew an increasingly viable experimental animal model for biomedical research, further study of the genome may facilitate new insights into the applicability of this model. For example, though the tree shrew has a rapid rate of speed and strong jumping ability, there are limited studies on ...

Mulberry (Morus spp.) is a multipurpose tree that worldwide planted because of its economic importance. This study was to investigate the likely consequences anticipated future elevated CO2 (eCO2) on growth, physiology and nutrient uptake nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) potassium (K) in two most widely cultivated mulberry multicaulis Perr.) varieties, QiangSang-1 NongSang-14, southwest China. A po...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a metabolic disease prevalent worldwide in all age group of people. The source of diabetes is due to an oxidation process that can produce free radicals. An increase in oxidative free radicals in the body is reported to be one of the several causes of diabetes. The best remedy to combat oxidative stress is the use of antioxidants, which inhibit and scavenge free radicals....

Chinese word segmentation is a fundamental task for Chinese language processing. The granularity mismatch problem is the main cause of the errors. This paper showed that the binary tree representation can store outputs with different granularity. A binary tree based framework is also designed to overcome the granularity mismatch problem. There are two steps in this framework, namely tree buildi...