In recent years, β-Hexachlorocyclohexane (β-HCH) has been detected frequently in water, seriously threatening human health and ecological balance. To explore the effects of different treatment groups on removal β-HCH experimental water response microbial community structure system, three strains β-HCH-degrading bacteria—Ochrobactrum sp. (Och1, Och2) Pseudomonas (Pse1)—combined with Canna were s...

This study aimed to determine the levels and characteristics of inulin contained in various types tubers Magelang district. The samples used were honey sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.), purple white gadung (Dioscorea hispida), yam alata canna (Canna edulis Ker.), arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea). variables observed yield, content, production, water content yield solubility, degree acidity (pH) ...

The objectives of this study were to characterize starches isolated from potato, canna, fern, and kudzu, grown in Hangzhou, China, for potential food and nonfood applications and to gain understandings of the structures and properties of tuber and root starches. Potato and canna starches with B-type X-ray patterns had larger proportions of amylopectin (AP) long branch chains (DP >or=37) than di...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com pollinators and seed dispersers, but also in food mainly defining its aesthetic value. Since anthocyanin and betalain structures allow predicting only part of their appearance, additional chemical and anatomical functions are required to modulate the appearance of plants and colored food. Physiological effects that the same pigments exert in plants ...

Human activities like mining, transport, agriculture, industrial waste disposal and military actions release inorganic pollutants in high concentrations that are toxic to natural ecosystems. Heavy metal pollution causes potential ecological risk. Heavy metals like Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pb) and Chromium (Cr) when present in high concentrations in soil exert potential toxic effects on overall growt...

The identification of the island named Hinba, referred to in Adomnán’s Life of Columba, has exercised scholarly attention intermittently for hundreds of years. Successfully identifying Hinba would have the potential to enhance our understanding of the geography, politics and culture of western Scotland in the early medieval period. This article analyses Adomnán’s references to Hinba and assesse...