Pasta are important foods in Europe, mainly in ltaly (25 kg/capita/year), Greece, France (6 kg) and Spain . The best products (nutritional value, cooking quality, aspect) are processed from durum wheat semolina . Because of this difference in quality, and because of the new market regulation on January 1993, that will include a free circulation between the member States of pastas made of durum ...

We hypothesize that institutions such as agricultural cooperatives influence regional levels of variety diversity through input supply, processing or marketing functions. This diversity can also affect yield, a partial measure of crop productivity. We test these hypotheses with data from southern Italy, a mega-diversity spot and centre of diversity for durum wheat. Cooperatives in the southern ...

Background: Wheat is one of the most common food allergens in children. The purpose of this study is to define the natural course of wheat allergy in children with dominant gastrointestinal symptoms and identify factors that help predict development of tolerance. Methods: The prospective analysis covered 50 children with positive food challenge results (DBPCFC) and positive wheat IgE test resul...

BACKGROUND Wheat is one of the most common food allergens in children. The purpose of this study is to define the natural course of wheat allergy in children with dominant gastrointestinal symptoms and identify factors that help predict development of tolerance. METHODS The prospective analysis covered 50 children with positive food challenge results (DBPCFC) and positive wheat IgE test resul...

Solids with exchangeable hydrogens are treated with D2O. The free-induction decay in a pulsed hydrogen NMR experiment is then interpreted in terms of the fraction of hydrogens in the sample which have been made mobile by this treatement. Data are provided for the hydrogen of starch in durum wheat semolina.

osmotic stress is one of the major factors that significantly reduce yields in dry areas. plants respond to this abiotic stress at physiological and molecular levels. many genes are induced under stress conditions by transcription factors. dehydration responsive element binding (dreb) protein is a subfamily of ap2/erf transcription factors which control expression of many osmotic stress-inducib...

Background Allergens from wheat (Triticum aestivum) can cause three distinct IgE-mediated allergies: respiratory allergy by inhalation of wheat flour, wheat pollen allergy and wheat food allergy. Wheat and wheat products are a main component in human diet, but currently avoidance is the only therapy for wheat food allergic patients. Diagnosis based on wheat flour extracts does not discriminate ...

To study the effects of wheat-maize intercropping on the population dynamics of wheat aphids and their natural enemies, wheat-maize intercropping patterns were divided into four levels: 8:2, 6:2, and 4:2 intercropping, and monoculture wheat. The results showed that as the wheat coverage rate decreased, the quantities of immigrating winged aphids and their natural enemies significantly differed;...