The aim of this work was to study the phenolic compounds identified in rice, their antioxidant activity and their potential beneficial effects on health. In vitro and in vivo studies evaluating the rice grains with different pericarp colour (light brown, red and black) showed potential beneficial effects on health related to the polyphenol content of the grain, such as reduction of oxidative st...

Isotianil (3,4-dichloro-2'-cyano-1,2-thiazole-5-carboxanilide) is a new plant-activating pesticide. Usage of the pesticide was approved for rice fields in 2010 and its production increased 400 times (2 × 10(4) kg) in the next year. In this work, a method for determining isotianil in brown rice and rice field soil was investigated for the first time. Isotianil was extracted by supercritical flui...

To address the effect of organic fertilizers on rice insect pests and diseases, an experiment was carried out in Cuulong Delta Rice Research Institute (CLRRI) based on the randomized complete block design with three replications. The treatments were including a combination of four animal manure compost levels (2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0 tons/ha) and four organic fertilizer levels (2.5, 5.0, 7.5, 10.0 ...

Solid-state fermentation was carried out using brown rice (BR) and polished rice (PR) as substrates for the production of tempeh using a fungal culture of Rhizopus oligosporus. The rice based tempeh was further analyzed for its nutrient composition like carbohydrate, protein, fat, fiber and ash content. The prepared BR and PR tempeh samples were baked and its sensory qualities were evaluated. O...

BACKGROUND Rice can be a major source of inorganic arsenic (Asi) for many sub-populations. Rice products are also used as ingredients in prepared foods, some of which may not be obviously rice based. Organic brown rice syrup (OBRS) is used as a sweetener in organic food products as an alternative to high-fructose corn syrup. We hypothesized that OBRS introduces As into these products. OBJECTI...

Ezra (Bud) Brown ([email protected]) has degrees from Rice and Louisiana State, and has been at Virginia Tech since the first Nixon Administration. His research interests include graph theory, the combinatorics of finite sets, and number theory—especially elliptic curves. In 1999, he received the MAA MD-DC-VA Section Award for Outstanding Teaching, and he loves to talk about mathematics and its...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of feeding cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) high black rice bran on nutrient digestibility, blood measurements, growth performance and pork quality of pigs. In Exp. I, a total of fifteen pigs (19.91±1.80 kg, average initial body weight) were used in assay of nutrient digestibility and blood measurements. All pigs were allotted to 5 treatments w...