Nowadays, many vegetables are grown inside greenhouses in which environment is controlled and nutrition can be supplied through water supply using electrical pump, namely fertigation. Dosage of nutrition in water for many vegetable plants are also known so that by controlling water supply all the needs for the plants to grow are available. Furthermore, water supply can be controlled using elect...

Plant-based and flexitarian eating patterns are increasingly popular, the food supply system has responded with a wide range of convenience products despite lack understanding regarding consumer views. The aim this study was to explore nutrition professional (NP) perceptions attitudes plant protein, including plant-based meat alternatives (PBMA) within an Australian context. Using online survey...

This study investigated the effects of vermicompost fertilization with complementary microbial nutrition on plant growth, yield, and fruit quality organically grown strawberry “Monterey” cultivar. Along vermicompost, five different fertilizers containing plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) were used as nutrition. Here, we examined growth parameters, we...

Mycorrhiza formation is the consequence of a mutualistic interaction between certain soil fungi and plant roots that helps to overcome nutritional limitations faced by the respective partners. In symbiosis, fungi contribute to tree nutrition by means of mineral weathering and mobilization of nutrients from organic matter, and obtain plant-derived carbohydrates as a response. Support with easily...

Bacterial communities are highly diverse and have great ecological importance. In the present study, we used an in silico analysis of terminal restriction fragments (tRF) to characterize the bacterial community of the plant ant Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus. This species is an obligate inhabitant of Acacia myrmecophytes and feeds exclusively on plant-derived food sources. Ants are the dominant insec...

Nutritional genomics is a new and promising science area which can broadly be defined as the application of high throughput genomics (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics/metabonomics) and functional genomic technologies to the study of nutritional sciences and food technology. First utilised in the food industry by plant biotechnologists to manipulate plant biosynthetic pathways, the use ...

This paper will present and discuss some basic physiological effects of nitrogen (N) nutrition in the cotton plant. The general thesis will be that N deficiency generates several related, yet discrete and experimentally identifiable, effects. Overall, these effects are integrated at the whole-plant level to produce systematic alterations in growth, yield, earliness, and other agronomic characte...

The number of people worldwide with type 2 diabetes is expected to double by 2030.1 In the United States, diabetes affects ~ 26 million people of all ages, about one-fourth of whom are not yet diagnosed.2 Despite the availability of a wide range of pharmacological treatments and the best efforts of diabetes educators and other health care professionals, good control of diabetes and its comorbid...

Nutrition is the main living reason for all of the societies of the world. Food supply should be both an economic and ecological subject. Health and nutrition involve balanced and sufficient functional food components. Sufficient daily calorie intake is the main problem of developing countries. The people cannot supply an adequate intake of essential food compounds such as proteins containing e...