Cowpea [(Vigna unguiculata L.) Walp. (Fabaceae)] is the most important food legume grown throughout West Africa. The seeds of this legume protein source are the least expensive for most African populations. However, cowpea production is severely limited by the losses (60-70%) caused by Callosobruchus maculatus F. (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Whereas many studies have been devoted to the ecology of ...

A single agro-based fiber is a three dimensional, biopolymer composite composed mainly of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin with minor amounts of free sugars, starch, protein, extractives, and inorganics. The performance of a given fiber used in a given application depends on several factors including chemical composition, physical properties, the interaction of a fiber within the composite...

Pressure-driven membrane-based technologies represent a valid approach to reduce the environmental pollution of several agro-food by-products. Recently, in relation to the major interest for natural compounds with biological activities, their use has been also addressed to the recovery, separation and fractionation of phenolic compounds from such by-products. In particular, tight ultrafiltratio...

The Lettuce infectious yellows virus (LIYV) RNA 2 mutant p1-5b was previously isolated from Bemisia tabaci-transmitted virus maintained in Chenopodium murale plants. p1-5b RNA 2 contains a single-nucleotide deletion in the minor coat protein (CPm) open reading frame (ORF) that is predicted to result in a frameshift and premature termination of the protein. Using the recently developed agroinocu...

Hydroxycinnamic acids are phenolic compounds and are considered to have health promotion properties due to their antioxidant activity. Potato tubers of 113 genotypes of Solanum tuberosum group Phureja belonging to the Colombian Central Collection, landraces of potatoes, and commercial cultivars were evaluated for their hydroxycinnamic acids content. The composition of these compounds was analyz...

BACKGROUND The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution). We conducted this study to evaluate the effect of weather variables on child u...

India is gifted with heterogeneous landforms and variety of climatic conditions such as the lofty mountains, the raverine deltas, high altitude forests, peninsular plateaus, variety of geological formations endowed with temperature varying from arctic cold to equatorial hot, and rainfall from extreme aridity with a few cms (<10 cm) to perhumid with world’s maximum rainfall (1120 cm) of several ...

The article discusses the aspects of establishment of food sovereignty from the regional point of view. Herewith, it is mentioned that the established food sovereignty of a state should be based on food sovereignty of regions as separate administrative and territorial units. The most prioritized field of development of agro-industrial complex is rational distribution and efficient specializatio...

Agricultural and agro-industrial residues (agro-residues) containing high amounts of carbohydrates, such as cellulose and hemicellulose, are produced in large amounts annually worldwide.1,2 Agro-residues are attractive raw materials of biorefinery processes producing value-added products due to their relatively low commercial value, renewability and abundant availability.3 Biorefining of agro-r...