light, amber and dark colored kernels were rated by eye on a scale of 3 different genotypes (zh1, zh2 and zh3). the oil content was measured using the soxhlet extraction method, ranged from 57.26 to 68.29%, for zh1 (light) and zh2 (amber) respectively. fatty acid compositions were measured using gas chromatography. the main fatty acids were linoleic, oleic and linolenic acids, respectively. als...

Cereal Chem. 84(1):88–91 Head rice yield (HRY) is the primary parameter used to quantify rice milling quality. However, HRY is affected by the degree of milling (DOM) and thus HRY may not be comparable between different lots if the DOM is different. The objective of this study was to develop a method by which HRY values can be adjusted for varying DOM values when measured by surface lipid conte...

Sleeve and large field cage experiments were conducted in Stoneville, MS, in 2010 and 2011 to assess adult rice stink bug, Oebalus pugnax (F.), injury in rice. 'Cocodrie' and 'Wells' were infested at bloom, milk, and soft dough stages of panicle development. Twenty rice panicles were infested individually in the sleeve cage experiment as replicates with 0, 1, or 2 O. pugnax in a split-plot, com...

Aim of this paper is to assess the fate of metapopulations described by spatially explicit models. To this end, we first present an interacting particle system (IPS) where individuals of a single species compete logistically at the local scale and can move among patches according to various dispersal kernels. As the IPS is a complex stochastic system, it is impossible to determine the persisten...

A crucial property addressed in the linear Calderón-Zygmund theory, going back to the founding article [1], is the fact that operators bounded on L whose kernels possess certain regularity are in fact bounded on every L space for 1 < p < ∞. Moreover, such a regularity assumption implies, together with the L-boundedness of the operator, a weak-type end-point estimate in L. From these continuity ...

In our previous study, an early-maturing variety of rice (Oryza sativa L.), Jinbu can have feature with unique green color, various phytochemicals as well as nutritive components by the optimal early harvesting, called Green Rice(®) (GR). The aims of the present field experiments were to evaluate the changes in the weight of 1,000 kernels, yield, and contents of proximate and bioactive compound...