wheat germ is a by-product of milling industry rich in fiber, tocopherol, unsaturated fatty acids, polyphenol, minerals and protein. in this study, effect of adding raw and stabilized wheat germ on the characteristics of cake batter such as specific gravity, viscosity and cake properties such as volume, apparent density, solid density, porosity, water activity, moisture and firmness was studied...

Antisera were raised against P3 (mol. wt. 32 000), the full-length translation product of alfalfa mosaic virus (A1MV) RNA 3. P3 was made by translation in wheat germ extracts, using unfractionated AlMV RNA as message, and the products were then fractionated either by centrifugation through a sucrose gradient, or by phosphocellulose chromatography, each technique being followed by SDS-PAGE. Prep...

An extract of fermented wheat germ (EFWG) was prepared by treatment with Aspergillus oryzae and in vitro antioxidant and cellular antioxidant capacities were measured. The induction of phase II detoxifying and antioxidant enzymes in exerting a cellular antioxidant capacity was determined. Treatment of wheat germ with A. oryzae significantly (p<0.001) increased the ferulic acid content, compared...

Th e aim of the present study was to evaluate the eff ect of ovine placenta extract, obtained by affi nity chromatography on immobilized wheat germ lectin, on mammogenesis, lactogenesis, and galactopoiesis in pregnant and lactating sheep. Placental extract (100 μg/mL protein concentration) was subcutaneously injected to pregnant sheep in days 1, 4, 7, 10, and 13 of the experiment (totally 10 mL...

Lactobacillus plantarum strain A6, a strong acid producer, was isolated from a Vietnamese fermented sausage (nem chua). Here, we report the genome sequence of this strain (3,368,579 bp).

There is an increasing knowledge and understanding of the role played by moulds in food spoilage. Especially the discovery of mycotoxin production in foods has highlighted the importance of moulds in food quality. It is, however, only within the last 5-10 years that major progresses have been made towards the prevention of spoilage caused by moulds. This is due to recent international agreement...

The distribution of cytokinin activity in wheat (Triticum aestivum) germ tRNA fractionated by BD-cellulose and RPC-5 chromatography has been examined. As in other organisms, the cytokinin moieties in wheat germ tRNA appear to be restricted to tRNA species that would be expected to respond to codons beginning with U. Only a few of the wheat germ tRNA species in this coding group actually contain...

We investigated the end processing and degradation of premature tRNAs in wheat germ extract (WGE), which led to the discovery of end protectors useful for stabilizing an in vitro transcript against various ribonucleases and thereby enhancing its apparent activity in WGE.