This paper applies a mixed integer programming model for joint lot sizing and scheduling to a plant for animal feed compounds. A key characteristic of this industry is that certain products can perform a production line cleaning function if a sufficiently large lot is produced between two products that would otherwise require a cleaning setup. Thus the sequence-dependent setup times do not alwa...

New breeding techniques in plant agriculture exploded upon the scene about two years ago, in 2014. While these innovative plant breeding techniques, soon to be led by CRISPR/Cas9, initially appear to hold tremendous promise for plant breeding, if not a revolution for the industry, the question of how the products of these technologies will be regulated is rapidly becoming a key aspect of the te...

Higher plants are an important source of secondary metabolites such as flavours, fragrances, dyes, pigments, food additives, terpenoids, alkaloids, and glycosides with medicinal importance. Several of these secondary plant products also form the basis for drug development. Today, several countries use plant derived chemicals as drugs with modifications. Unfortunately, these secondary plant prod...

RFIDs (Radio Frequency Identification) are used for identification of products in manifold areas including industrial automation. Their ability to identify products tremendously supports keeping control over the products in a plant and to set the basis for decisions to optimize the production process. Agent systems, on the other hand, offer a possibility to handle production in a plant in a fle...

In this Editorial, I comment on the exciting and original topic of plant neurobiology, focusing on natural products whose biosynthesis is shared by animal and plant organisms, i.e., indoleamines (melatonin and serotonin) and catecholamines (dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine).

BACKGROUND There is scepticism about health effects of dairy products in the public, which is reflected in an increasing intake of plant-based drinks, for example, from soy, rice, almond, or oat. OBJECTIVE This review aimed to assess the scientific evidence mainly from meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised controlled trials, on dairy intake and risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes...

The intention of this research is qualitative and quantitative study of Hypericum perforatum's products. The main use of this plant is for treatment of depression. Furthermore, it has anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, antivirus, sedative and anti-migraine activities. Hypericin, which is one of the effective compounds of this plant, has antidepressant effect and it has been evaluated in this res...

The intention of this research is qualitative and quantitative study of Hypericum perforatum's products. The main use of this plant is for treatment of depression. Furthermore, it has anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, antivirus, sedative and anti-migraine activities. Hypericin, which is one of the effective compounds of this plant, has antidepressant effect and it has been evaluated in this res...

To successfully survive in plants, endophytes need strategies to avoid being detected by the plant immune system, as the cell walls of endophytes contain easily detectible chitin. It is possible that endophytes "hide" this chitin from the plant immune system by modifying it, or oligomers derived from it, using chitin deacetylases (CDA). To explore this hypothesis, we identified and expressed a ...

Medicinal plant is very important one in human health, it will act as an antibactericide activity against the bacterial pathogens, that is followed from ancient times (Zaikaa, 1988). Plant can serve as a source of innovation therapeutic agents against the infectious diseases (Singh, 2013). The natural products derived from medicinal plants have been used for years in traditional medicine to tre...