The reducing sugar content of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) roots increased during 30 days of storage at 21 C and 160 days at 5 C as a result of an increase in acid invertase activity. Sucrose synthetase and neutral invertase activities were high at harvest but declined during storage, thus showing no relationship with postharvest reducing sugar accumulation in sugar beet roots. Acid alpha-gluc...

We analyzed a metagenome of the bacterial community associated with the taproot of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) in order to investigate the genes involved in plant growth-promoting traits (PGPTs), namely 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) deaminase, indole acetic acid (IAA), N2 fixation, phosphate solubilization, pyrroloquinoline quinone, siderophores, and plant disease suppression as...

The aim of this study was to investigate the applicability sugar beet pulp (SBP) in particleboard production as a substitute for wood material. Two variants board density, 650 kg/m3 and 550 kg/m3, containing 0%, 25% 50% SPB, were evaluated. During following features measured: modulus rupture (MOR), elasticity (MOE), thickness swelling (TS) water absorption (WA). results showed that boards up SB...

UNLABELLED SUMMARY Taxonomy: There are three members of the genus Polerovirus (family Luteoviridae) that induce yellowing of sugar beet: Beet mild yellowing virus (BMYV), Beet chlorosis virus (BChV) and Beet western yellows virus-USA (BWYV-USA, Fig. 1). Non-beet-infecting isolates of BWYV found particularly within Europe have now been re-named Turnip yellows virus (TuYV). Species-specific antib...

The yield of sugar beet has continuously increased in the past decades. The question arises, whether this progress will continue in the future. A key factor for increasing yield potential of the crop is breeding progress. It was related to a shift in assimilate partitioning in the plant toward more storage carbohydrates (sucrose), whereas structural carbohydrates (leaves, cell wall compounds) u...

The guinea-pig first achieved fame as an experimental animal in the eighteenth century, when Lavoisier used it for his fundamental experiments on respiration (Lavoisier & La Place, 1784; Seguin & Lavoisier, 1793). It did not, however, begin to make nutritional history till the twentieth century, when Holst & Frolich (1go7), in trying to give it beriberi, found that it developed scurvy instead; ...

Studies were carried out with a repeated 4×4 Latin square design with eight cannulated pigs fed four experimental diets to investigate the effect of dietary fiber and starch sources on apparent ileal and fecal amino acid digestibility. Each period lasted 15 d, with diet acclimation from d 1 to 7, feces collection for 48 h on d 8 to 9 and ileal sample collection for 12 h on d 13 to 15. The four ...

A noteworthy advance in the knowledge of the constitution of the pectic compounds was afforded through the excellent researches of Ehrlich and his coworkers (1)) who discovered that d-galacturonic acid, an isomer of d-glucuronic acid, was a constituent of all pectic substances so far examined. Later researches showed that the pectic acid obtainable from sugar beet pectin (2) can be regarded as ...

Rhizomania, caused by Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), severely impacts sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) production throughout the world, and is widely prevalent in most production regions. Initial efforts to characterize proteome changes focused primarily on identifying putative host factors that elicit resistant interactions with BNYVV, but as resistance breaking strains become more prevale...