OBJECTIVE Determine 1) if consumption of a meal of different fruits or berries increases plasma hydrophilic (H-) or lipophilic (L-) antioxidant capacity (AOC) measured as Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC(FL)); 2) if including macronutrients in the meal alters postprandial changes in AOC; and 3) if preliminary recommendations can be developed for antioxidant intake. METHODS Changes in ...

Ammonium acetate and protein hydrolysate baited and unbaited green spheres (3.6, 9.0, and 15.6 cm diameter) were evaluated for effectiveness in capturing blueberry maggot flies, Rhagoletis mendax Curran. Early in the season, baited spheres (9.0 cm diameter) captured significantly more R. mendax flies than spheres of 3.6 and 15.6 cm diameter. As the season progressed, the differences in trap cap...

To gain a better understanding of changes in gene expression associated with cold acclimation in the woody perennial blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), a genomics approach based on the analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) was undertaken. Two cDNA libraries were constructed using RNA from cold acclimated and non-acclimated floral buds of the blueberry cultivar Bluecrop and about 600 5′-end ESTs w...

The work of pollinators is crucial to the sustainability of plant communities in natural and agricultural ecosystems; however, pollinators are declining in much of the developed world due to a variety of parasites, diseases, and environmental stresses. These experiments are the first to examine directly the impact of honey bee, Apis mellifera, nest invaders on plant pollination and fitness. A c...

EFFECTS OF CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT AND IRRADIANCE ON EX VITRO ROOTING, ACCLIMATIZATION AND SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF MICROPROPAGATED APPLE AND BLUEBERRY. Marvin Pritts and Dorcas Isuta*, Cornell University, Fruit and Vegetable Science Department. 134A Plant Science Building, Ithaca, NY 14850 Previous findings reveal that rooting and acclimatization of apple and blueberry plants is often difficult ...

Vaccinium myrtillus L. (blueberry) leaf infusions are traditionally used as a folk medicine treatment of diabetes. To further define this therapeutical action, a dried hydroalcoholic extract of the leaf was administered orally to streptozotocin-diabetic rats for 4 days. Plasma glucose levels were consistently found to drop by about 26% at two different stages of diabetes. Unexpectedly, plasma t...

We demonstrate that the interface structure has a significant influence on the magnetic state of MnGa/Co films consisting of L1(0)-MnGa on face-centered-cubic Co(001) surface. We reveal an antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic magnetization reversal as a function of the lateral lattice constant. The magnetization reversal mainly originates from localized states and weak hybridization at interface ...

We report the implementation of a fully relativistic time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method for carrying out x-ray absorption spectroscopy calculations for extended systems. This is the first time that a TDDFT simulation of x-ray absorption in extended systems has featured a full potential ground state calculation. We prove that this unusual feature of the TDDFT implementation ...

We numerically examine colloidal particles driven over a muffin tin substrate. Previous studies of this model identified a variety of commensurate and incommensurate static phases in which topological defects can form domain walls, ordered stripes, superlattices, or disordered patchy regimes as a function of the filling fraction. Here, we show that the addition of an external drive to these sta...

OBJECTIVE Fat intake, especially monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA), has been liberalized in diabetic diets to preserve HDL cholesterol and improve glycemic control, yet the exact sources have not been clearly defined. Therefore, we assessed the effect of mixed nut consumption as a source of vegetable fat on serum lipids and HbA(1c) in type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 11...