Many natural phytonutrients have beneficial effects on health [1,2]. In addition, several botanicals have received positive attention, based on their relative safety and the accumulation of evidence of their antiadipogenic and metabolic effects in animals and humans [3]. Natural products can decrease of lipid absorption, energy intake, lipogenesis, pre-adipocyte differentiation and proliferatio...

An epimer of the known glycosidase inhibitor noeurostegine, galacto-noeurostegine, was synthesised in 21 steps from levoglucosan and found to be a potent, competitive and highly selective galactosidase inhibitor of Aspergillus oryzae β-galactosidase. Galacto-noeurostegine was not found to be an inhibitor of green coffee bean α-galactosidase, yeast α-glucosidase and E. coli β-galactosidase, wher...

In the 1:1 (cotton:grain) system of short-rotation, soybean, bean, mung bean crops were harvested as a repeat crop after winter wheat. Their stem and mixed siderate (perco, oats, green peas) planted in second half August, blue mass grown October-November was for livestock. The lower 15-20 cm part plowed under plow manure, at end one rotation, amount organic carbon soil increased by 0.041-0.073%...

The aim of this study was to investigate the transfer N from different legumes cherry tomatoes in intercropping system under residual straw previous green corn crop using 15N natural abundance method. We also investigated temporal variation nitrogen a tomato, biological fixation (BNF) legumes, and concentration cultivated intercrop succession. experimental design complete randomized block with ...

L. amylophilus GV6 was studied for production of L(+) lactic acid in single step fermentation using starchy substrates. Seven types of inexpensive organic nitrogen supplements (flour of pigeon pea, red lentil gram, black gram, bengal gram, green gram, soya bean and baker’s yeast) were evaluated for their potential to replace more expensive commercial nitrogen sources, peptone and yeast extract....

Mid rift valley of east Shewa, Ethiopia is among the potential commercial irrigated intensive vegetable production areas [1] supplying a variety of vegetables to every corners of the country. Onion, tomato, maize, kale, hot pepper, watermelon, green bean and head cabbage are among the major vegetable crops widely produced for national and local markets. Okra, cucurbit and sweet melon are also c...

Damage begins after a female bores a hole in the berry and builds a gallery in the seed where eggs are deposited. After hatching, the larvae start consuming the seed [1]. Feeding by adults and larvae can turn the bean into a dusty mass of frass, but even lightly bored beans have a distinctive blue-green staining which lowers quality. The galleries allow pathogens to enter, leading to fermentati...

Trialeurodes vaporariorum (West.) is a pest of greenhouse vegetables and ornamentals and infests crops in Europe and in the American continent. In Brazil, just a few cases are known on economic crops, being all restricted to greenhouse crops. In 2003, in Itatiba and neighboring localities of State of São Paulo, Brazil, field infestations of T. vaporariorum were observed, mainly on tomato and gr...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The Asian genus Vigna, to which four cultivated species (rice bean, azuki bean, mung bean and black gram) belong, is suitable for comparative genomics. The aims were to construct a genetic linkage map of rice bean, to identify the genomic regions associated with domestication in rice bean, and to compare these regions with those in azuki bean. METHODS A genetic linkage map...

Pigeon Pea seeds (Cajanus cajan) were produced into three different flour samples; full fat, defatted and protein isolate. They were subjected to proximate analysis and determination of some functional properties. Proximate composition was carried out on moisture content, protein content, fat content, carbohydrate, ash content and crude fibre content. The proximate analysis (%) shoed that prote...