High intake of natural antioxidants has been associated with lower incidence of chronic diseases such as cancer and heart diseases. Thus, there is need to find out the crops rich in antioxidants and phenolic compounds. The aqueous extracts of leaves of thirteen varieties of sugarcane were studied for their antioxidant activity and protective effect on DNA damage. 2,2-diphenyl-1picrylhydrazyl ra...

Molecular analysis of floral induction in Arabidopsis has identified several flowering time genes related to 4 response networks defined by the autonomous, gibberellin, photoperiod, and vernalization pathways. Although grass flowering processes include ancestral functions shared by both mono- and dicots, they have developed their own mechanisms to transmit floral induction signals. Despite its ...

. This study covers inquisitive approach to develop an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model to foresee sugarcane production. The various input data set comprises the agro-climatic and socio-economic factors influencing sugarcane production whereas the output is real sugarcane output. Different forecasting techniques have been deployed on the concept of fuzzy time series data, whereas precision...

the sugarcane yellow mite, oligonychus sacchari (mcgregor, 1942) is one of the most important pests of sugarcane. in this study, the acaricidal efficacy of four different acaricides including biomite ® , gc-mite ® , oberon ® and envidor ® was assessed under laboratory conditions at 28 ± 0.5ºc, 50 ± 5% rh and a photoperiod of 16:8 h (l:d). adults of o. sacchari were exposed to treated leaves of ...

in last decades, oil spill pollution has become an important issue of concern due to its serious environmental impacts; therefore, necessary actions should be taken to prevent or reduce these types of pollution and their environmental consequences. natural organic sorbents are emerging as proper choices for oil spill cleanup due to their availability, eco-friendliness, and low cost. in this stu...

Sugarcane is one of the most important agricultural crops in the world. However, pathogen infection and herbivore attack cause constant losses in yield. Plants respond to pathogen infection by inducing the expression of several protein types, such as glucanases, chitinases, thaumatins, peptidase inhibitors, defensins, catalases and glycoproteins. Proteins induced by pathogenesis are directly or...

The present work reports amounts of flavonoids and phenylpropanoids of culms of three sugarcane varieties and of raw juice, syrup, molasse and VHP sugar. The antioxidant activity of those materials was evaluated by the DPPH and b-carotene/linoleic acid methods. The predominant phenolics in culms were phenylpropanoids (caffeic, chlorogenic and coumaric acids), while flavones (apigenin, tricin an...