Planting date effects on arthropod infestation and viral plant disease are undocumented for winter wheat, Triticum aestivum L., in South Dakota and the northern Great Plains. Winter wheat was planted over three dates (early, middle, and late; generally from late August to late September) to determine the effect on abundance of insect pests, incidence of plant damage, incidence of viral plant di...

OBJECTIVE To describe ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal purchases in 2008 in the USA according to cereal nutritional quality and marketing strategy and household sociodemographic characteristics. DESIGN Cross-sectional study of purchases in one year. Each type of cereal was assigned to one of four nutrition quality categories (based on Nutrient Profile Index, NPI) and one of four advertising categori...

Experiments were conducted at three sites across southern New South Wales, Australia, over years (2008 to 2010), evaluate the agronomic and quality parameters of two wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), barley (Hordeum vulgare oat (Avena sativa L.) one triticale (× Triticosecale) variety, grown as monocultures or in combination with purple vetch (Vicia benghalensis L.). Harvests occurred when individu...

The role of cereal germplasm banks is to collect, maintain, preserve, and distribute seeds representing the genetic diversity of crop species. While germplasm resources have traditionally been used in breeding efforts to improve a crop plant, they have also proved useful in both applied and basic research efforts to give insight into the biology of a crop plant (Harlan, 1975; Hyland, 1977; Spra...

BACKGROUND Studies that use dietary biomarkers to investigate the association between whole-grain intake and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) are lacking. OBJECTIVE We examined the association between plasma total alkylresorcinols and the alkylresorcinol C17:0-to-C21:0 ratio, biomarkers of whole-grain wheat and rye intake and relative whole-grain rye over whole-grain wheat intake,...

Consider the task of finding an arbitrary item X in a grocery store. The task is impossibly hard without knowing something about the object. Information about the item is relevant only if it somehow helps in the locating process. In the SHOPPER. project, we are attempting to build an agent which locates items satisfying desired goals while operating with incomplete knowledge of the domain, and ...

UNLABELLED The glycaemic index (GI) is a measure of the food power to raise blood glucose (B-glucose) concentration after a meal. For healthy eating, foods with low GI are recommended. However, for many foods in the European Union the GI has not been defined yet. The aims of this prospective open-label study were: (1) to determine the GI of white bread and juicy cereal bars FIT (Usovsko, Czech ...