Jagung manis (Zea mays L. Saccharata) merupakan salah satu tanaman pangan yang ketersediaannya melimpah di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) namun belum dimanfaatkan secara optimal. Berbagai produk olahan berbahan dasar jagung telah dikembangkan, akan tetapi penggunaannya untuk probiotik seperti yoghurt nabati sebagai fungsional dilakukan. Penelitian ini bertujuan menentukan karakteristik fisi...

Plants play an indispensable part in the environment, especially as a medication to protect man from intrinsic and extrinsic ill effects imparted by stress agents. In tune with the search of antioxidant-rich plants, the leaves of Zea mays were analyzed for its antioxidant potential at three different stages of growth. The effect of the leaf extract on the oxidant stress induced in in vitro syst...

Farm records were used to study the temporal and spatial distribution of bollworm, Helicoverpa zea (Boddie), tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F.), (collectively heliothines) and tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), on cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., across a 4000 ha farm in southeastern Arkansas. The influence of the percentage of corn, Z. mays L., cotton, rice, Oryz...

We investigated the extent of Sb uptake by maize (Zea mays) and sunflower (Helianthus annuus) from nutrient solutions containing concentrations from 3 to 24 mg/L of potassium antimonate, with the aim of determining the potential of Sb to enter the food chain. The maximum shoot Sb concentrations in Z. mays and H. annuus were 41 mg/kg and 77 mg/kg dry weight, respectively. There was no significan...