Using Roche/454 technology, we sequenced the chloroplast genomes of 12 Triticeae species, including bread wheat, barley and rye, as well as the diploid progenitors and relatives of bread wheat Triticum urartu, Aegilops speltoides and Ae. tauschii. Two wild tetraploid taxa, Ae. cylindrica and Ae. geniculata, were also included. Additionally, we incorporated wild Einkorn wheat Triticum boeoticum ...

Combinations of winter and fall cover crops were evalu­ ated for the management of plant-parasitic nematodes. The winter cover crops examined were rye (Secale cereale) and narrow-leafed lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) and the fall cover crops were soybean (Glycine max), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), sorghum-sudangrass (Sor­ ghum bicolor x S. sudanense), sun hemp (Crotalaria juncea), and corn (Zea m...

A 900-base-pair (bp) sequence from a cDNA clone of the rye endosperm-storage-protein gene Sec-1 was labeled with biotin and hybridized to Secale cereale 'Blanco' chromosomes. Hybridization was seen on the satellite part of the short arm of chromosome 1R, where the Sec-1 gene has been genetically mapped, in approximately 8.5% of the cells analyzed. The clone cross-hybridized at a lower frequency...

The aim of this study is to develop a new technology for making traditional Lithuanian non-alcoholic beverage kvass from fermented cereals by extending the spectrum of raw materials (extruded rye) and applying new biotechnological resources (xylanolytic enzymes and lactic acid bacteria (LAB)) to improve its functional properties. Arabinoxylans in extruded rye were very efficiently hydrolysed in...

Meiotic pairing preferences between identical and homologous but not identical chromosomes were analyzed in spontaneous tetraploid/diploid chimeras of three male grasshoppers (Eyprepocnemis plorans) whose chromosome pair 11 were heterozygous for C-banding pattern and in four induced tetraploid/diploid chimaeral rye plants (Secale cereale) heterozygous for telomeric heterochromatin C-bands in ch...

Primary leaves of rye (Secale cereale L. cv. Kustro) show a heterogeneous, tissue-specific pattern of flavonoids being composed of the two C-glycosylflavone glycosides isovitexin 2"-0-arabinoside and isovitexin 2"-0-galactoside (located in the epidermal layers) [1, 2], the two flavone glycosides luteolin 7O-diglucuronide and luteolin 7-O-diglucuronide 4'O-glucuronide [3] and the two anthocyanin...

The role of isolated pentosans as the possible antinutritional factor in rye grain was investigated by using the chick as the bioassay animal. Pentosans were fractionated into water-soluble and insoluble fractions, and the content of the two major pentoses, xylose and arabinose, were quantitated. Puma rye contained 2.1 soluble and 7.7 % insoluble pentosans. When isolated pentosans supplied whea...

Field research for exploring the impact of winter cover crops (WCCs) integration into cropping systems is resource intensive, time-consuming and offers limited application beyond study area. To bridge this gap, we used APSIM model, to simulate corn (Zea mays L.)-rye (Secale cereale L.)-corn-rye corn-rye-soybean (Glycine max rotations in comparison with corn-corn corn-soybean across state Illino...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Few studies have explored the possible plasma cholesterol lowering effects of rye consumption. The aim of this secondary analysis in the SYSDIET study was to investigate the association between plasma alkylresorcinols (AR), a biomarker for whole grain wheat and rye intake, and blood lipid concentrations in a population with metabolic syndrome. Furthermore, we analyzed the ass...