The increase of environmental pollutants especially heavy metals derives from human industrial communities. Zinc is one of the natural elements that exist in biotic environment, plants body, and animals in different forms. Zinc has toxic and lethal effects in high concentrations on plants. Also some plants are introduced as accumulators of this element. Therefore, an investigation was carried o...

Carbohydrates play a key role in apple fruit growth and development. are needed for cell division/expansion, regulate fruitlet abscission, influence maturation quality. Current methods to quantify carbohydrates labor intensive expensive. We quantified throughout growing season two cultivars evaluated the use of near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) predict carbohydrate content changes were with high...

this study was conducted to determine the nutritive value of fresh and ensiled whole and partly stoned olive cake (oc) with or without molasses i.e., 0 and 50 gkg-1 on fresh basis. dry matter (dm), organic matter (om), crude protein (cp), neutral detergent fiber (ndf), acid detergent fiber (adf), lignin (sa), ether extract (ee), water soluble carbohydrates (wsc), and total phenols (tph) of all ...

Zoogloea ramigera 115 synthesized large amounts of matrix polymer from fructose, galactose, glucose, lactose, mannose, soluble starch, and sucrose when these carbohydrates were used as supplements to a chemically defined medium. All of them supported polymer synthesis to the extent that cultures thickened to a gel. Concentration of carbohydrate nutrients in the range 0.5 to 2.0% was not a criti...

Short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are produced following the fermentation of soluble fibre by gut bacteria. In animal models, both dietary fibre and SCFAs have demonstrated anti-inflammatory effects via the activation of free fatty acid receptors, such as G protein-coupled receptor 41 and 43 (GPR41 and GPR43). This pilot study examined the acute effect of a single dose of soluble fibre on airway ...

BACKGROUND Corn stover is lignocellulosic biomass that has potential to be used as raw material for bioethanol production. In the current research, dilute ammonia pretreatment was used to improve the accessibility of corn stover carbohydrates to subsequently added hydrolytic enzymes. Some carbohydrates, however, were still present after enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation. Hence, this researc...

low temperature is one of main factors limiting distribution of woody plants. in order to evaluate the resistance of 4-years old seedlings and adult trees of maclura pomifera to freezing stress, a factorial experiment was carried out based on completely randomized design with three replications in the faculty of agriculture, university of tehran. during 2012-2013 sampling were done from the ann...

BACKGROUND Pulses represent an important source of protein, as well as digestible and indigestible carbohydrates. Little information is available on the indigestible carbohydrates and antioxidant capacity of legume seeds. The cooked seeds of three pulses (black bean, chickpea and lentil) were evaluated for their indigestible fraction (IF), polyphenols content, antioxidant capacity and in vitro ...

Melanins are universal biopolymers, the main biological function of which is to protect living organisms from adverse factors. Interest in these dark pigments arises due prospects for their use medicine, cosmeceuticals, bioremediation, bioelectronics, and other fields. In this work, a complex scheme was developed isolate melanins lichen Leptogium furfuraceum (Harm.), symbiotic extremophilic org...