Rice stripe disease, caused by Rice stripe virus (RSV), is one of the most serious rice diseases in temperate and subtropical regions of the world. Since RSV is not transmissible mechanically, an insect transmission test was the original basis for identification of the viral population and cultivar resistance. A simple, rapid and reliable method is described by which virus-free small brown plan...

Sugarcane straw has become an available lignocellulosic biomass since the progressive introduction of the non-burning harvest in Brazil. Besides keeping this biomass in the field, it can be used as a feedstock in thermochemical or biochemical conversion processes. This makes feasible its incorporation in a biorefinery, whose economic profitability could be supported by integrated production of ...

This study was aimed at preliminarily assessing the cytoprotective and antioxidative effects of rice bran extracts (RBEs) from a Sarawak local rice variety (local name: "BJLN") and a commercial rice variety, "MR219," on oxidative stress in rat H9c2(2-1) cardiomyocytes. The cardiomyocytes were incubated with different concentrations of RBE and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), respectively, to identify ...

We present evidence that rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) has a genome of polyadenylated single-stranded RNA of about 10 kb whereas rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) contains double-stranded circular DNA. RTBV DNA has been mapped and shown to have two discontinuities, one in each strand, at specific sites; it thus resembles that of the caulimoviruses. Gel electrophoresis of RTSV preparatio...

Diacylglycerol (DAG) oil is becoming quite well known for its beneficial effects on obesity and weight related disorders as they are digested and metabolized in a different way, which significantly reduces body weight. The present study was conducted to evaluate the nutritional effect of rice bran oil (RBO) and DAG-rich rice bran oil on rat model. DAG-rich RBO (46.10% DAG) was prepared in the l...

Xylose-to-xylitol bioconversion by Ca-alginate entrapped Candida guilliermondii cells in sugarcane bagasse hemicellulosic hydrolysate was carried out in erlenmeyer flasks using the repeated-batch mode of fermentation. The hydrolysate was supplemented or not with ammonium sulfate and/or rice bran extract at the beginning of each repeated batch. Altogether, six sets of three repeated-batches were...

In the present innovative pursuit, the generalized Nörlund summability method, that is, the (N, c, d) summation process of Fourier series of f (x) as well defined by Borwein [4] has been invoked to approximate the function f (x) belonging to Lip M α (0 < α < 1 ) and M being some constant. Here it is worth-emphasising that not only mere approximation, but also the constants appeared in the proce...

In this paper, some new properties of the fundamental solution to the multi-dimensional 1 spaceand time-fractional diffusion-wave equation are deduced. We start with the Mellin-Barnes 2 representation of the fundamental solution that was derived in the previous publications of the 3 author. The Mellin-Barnes integral is used to get two new representations of the fundamental solution 4 in form o...

using a wide range of techniques, including differential scanning calorimetry, x-ray diffraction, rapid visco analyser and fourier transform infera red spectroscopy, some physicochemical properties of the starch fraction of six iranian rice cultivars (tarom, tarome hashemi, neda, ramezani, fajr and kamfirouzi) [1]were studied and compared. dsc data showed that starch granules of different rice ...