Due to environmental and health concerns, a substitute for conventional wood adhesives has been sought, with bio-based being one of the most-researched alternatives. Recently, adhesive made from citric acid sucrose was used manufacture sweet sorghum bagasse particleboard. However, pressing conditions (200 °C, 10 min) consume high amount energy, so optimization condition is required. Therefore, ...

The enzymic formation of sucrose from UDPGl and fructose has been described in the preceding paper (1). While some preparations of the enzyme were found to be almost devoid of action of fructose-6-phosphate, other extracts catalyzed the formation of free sucrose either from fructose or from its phosphate. Since these extracts contain phosphatase, it seemed likely that the action on fructose pho...

An efficient procedure has been developed for callus induction and cell suspension cultures of C. saxicola for the first time. Explant selection was carried out among leaf, stem and root to select a suitable type of explants capable of higher callus formation. Leaf explants thus selected showed maximum response to callus induction (67.1%). Modified B5 medium supplemented with 0.5 mg l(-1) 2,4-D...

—Formalin is currently the only aquaculture drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the control of fungi on the eggs of all finfish. The efficacy of formalin for disinfecting hybrid catfish (channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus 3 blue catfish I. furcatus) eggs was examined and compared with that of three other potential chemotherapeutants. Two experiments were conducted to eva...

This study evaluated the use of splice grafting as a propagation strategy for watermelon. In experiment 1, treatments consisted sucrose, antitranspirant A, B, auxin (indole-3-butyric acid (IBA)) at two concentrations (10 and 20 mg·L−1), plus water control. The survival (%) splice-grafted watermelon plants differed due to number days after treatment (p < 0.0001, both). At 21 grafting, treated...

In swine, five to six days post-insemination, morulae and blastocysts are collected together after uterine flushing. The purpose of this study was to vitrify zona pellucida-intact morulae with Open Pulled Straw (OPS) technology and obtain piglets after transfer. Morulae (200) were vitrified after a two-step equilibration in ethylene glycol, dimethyl sulfoxide and sucrose in Hepes-buffered TCM19...

This study was conducted during two successive seasons 2005 and 2006 by using "Desert Red" peach cultivar (Prunus persica L.) grafted on Nemaguard rootstock. Trees were sprayed with a hand sprayer to the run off at the initiation of phase ΙΙΙ of the double sigmoid curve before the onset of the climacteric. The treatments included putrescine at 5 and 10 mM, GA3 at 200 and 400 ppm, in addition to...

Sixteen ram lambs were fed 0, 50 or 200 ppm supplemental vanadium daily as NH4VO3 for 90 d and coccygeal vertebrae were sampled at 0, 15, 30, 6 0 a n d 90 d after the imposition of dietary treatments. Vertebral vanadium content was elevated (P<.05) after exposure to 200 ppm added vanadium in the diet for 15 d, but nonsignificant increases occurred thereafter. Increasing dietary vanadium increas...

Deli-style turkey breast cured with pre-converted celery juice powder (CP) or sodium nitrite (SN) was manufactured with ingoing SN concentrations or equivalent of 0, 50, 100, 150, and 200 ppm. Cured and total meat pigment, salt, and water activity were measured on d 0; color, pH, and residual nitrite were measured on d 0, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, and 42. Untrained panelists evaluated sensory traits o...