Vacuoles are the stores for large amounts of stachyose [alphagal (1,6) alphagal (1,6) alphaglc (1,2) betafru] in tubers of Japanese artichoke (Stachys sieboldii). The uptake of stachyose by these vacuoles was examined and compared with that of sucrose. The uptake mechanisms of both sugars were quite similar. The kinetics showed a single saturable response to increasing external concentrations o...

A theoretical optimal hedging model is developed to determine potential demand from Australian farmers for a hedging tool to remove the economic consequences of climate related variability in wheat yield. In the past, financial instruments have been developed to hedge price risk on capital markets; however, in more recent times new financial instruments, weather derivatives, have been developin...

1 Departamento de Investigación y Desarrollo (I + D), Laboratorios Lokímica, Valencia, Spain, 2 Department of Biotechnology, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain, 3 Instituto Nacional de Medicina Tropical, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina, 4 Grupo de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Universidad de La Salle, Bogota, Colombia, 5 Department of Community Healt...

extracts obtained from the aerial parts of stachys lavandulifolia (lamiaceae) are used in iranian folk medicine as remedies for the treatment of various painful and inflammatory diseases. for evaluation of its probable analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, hydroalcoholic, polyphenolic and boiled extracts of the aerial parts of the herb were prepared and their analgesic effects were studied i...