Locust bean pods were utilized as cattle feed for a very long time but now its seed endosperm powder is locust gum in various industries such food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, textile, paint, mining, oil drilling and construction thickening stabilizing properties. In pharmaceutical industries, used the production of solid monolithic matrix systems, films, beads, micro-particles, nano-particles, i...

Th e chemical composition and sensory characteristics vary signifi cantly within different honey types. In order to determine botanical origin of honey, it is necessary to conduct rather complicated and time consuming analytical methods. IR spectroscopy has not yet been experimentally explored for honey analysis in Croatia, so the aim of this study was to determine claimed botanical origin of h...

Sucrose syrup is a common additive in honey adulteration. To provide information for developing a cheap, simple, convenient and rapid sucrose–adulterated honey detector or sucrose content sensor, the permittivities of pure jujube, yellow-locust and milk-vetch flower honey, pure sucrose syrup and honey–sucrose syrup mixtures with sucrose content from 0% (pure honey) to 80% (pure sucrose syrup) w...

Photo 1: Fractal-like branching architecture of a honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) tree growing next to home in Michigan, USA, shown by zooming on focal point above the tree's base (successive photographs from left right, with full grayed out background). credit: Janet MacFarlane. These illustrate article “Fractal dimension crowns explains species functional-trait responses urban environmen...

Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) is an easy to raise, fast growing, medium-sized deciduous tree species highly tolerant to harsh eco-conditions, i.e., drought and harsh winters, and it is widely adaptable to sandy, loamy, and marshy soils. The basis for this adaptability remains to be investigated at the transcriptomic level using real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). Selection of a reliable...