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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"agave"”.
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Biorenewable polymer thermoplastic biocomposites
… from a wide range of industries, in particular agave fibers. Creating a composite composed of fibrous materials would have potential benefits that include cutting costs of composite products, decrease in density, increased strength and durability, and utilizing plant fiber waste streams for cost …
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Structural and compositional studies of potential immunomodulatory polysaccharides found in locally grown plants
… two locally grown plants, namely Aloe ferox and Agave americana, to evaluate them as possible sources of commercial health products. Aloe vera, a well known medicinal plant with many healing properties, contains acemannan, a highly water-soluble mannose rich glucomannan, which has demonstrated …
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Fermenting Identities: Race and Pulque Politics in Mexico City between 1519 and 1754
… perceptions of the maguey (or American agave) and pulque, the maguey's alcoholic by-product, underscores how race, ethnicity and food influenced social change after Cortes marched on Mexico. The socio-political discourse and food cultures that engulfed pulque and the maguey developed …
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Catalytic Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
… (crassulacean acid metabolism) species, (e.g., Agave tequilana and Opuntia ficus-indica) which are unique biomass species compared to other C3 and C4 plants, are especially promising. In Chapter 2, Agave and Opuntia were characterized by a series of standard biomass analytical procedures wherein …
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Aproveitamento energético da biomassa residual verde de sisal : etanol e biocarvão
… Estima-se que apenas 4% do peso da planta Agave sisalana é transformado em fibras (sisal) e o material restante é descartado ao longo da cadeia produtiva. Tendo isto em vista, o presente trabalho objetivou-se valorizar a mucilagem do sisal na produção de etanol de segunda geração (2G) na …
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Ethnobotanical survey of problem weeds, alien invasive plant species and their roles in Nzhelele, Makhado Local Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… used are as follows: Achyrathes aspera L., Agave sisalana L., Amaranthus spinosus L., Anredera cordifolia L., Canna indica L., Centella asiatica L., Chenopodium album L., Chenopodium ambrosioides L. and Chromolaena odorata (L.) R. M. King and H. Rob. The dominant category for problem weeds …
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A next generation theranostic nano-platform for sustained and enhanced inhibition of cancer stem cells
… hydrothermal synthetic route using food grade Agave nectar as the carbohydrate source. The particles were either prefunctionalized (hHydrodynamic dynamic size= 76±13 nm) or postfunctionalized (Hydrodynamic hydrodynamic dynamic size= 93±4 nm) with CB[6] and were further loaded with STAT3 …
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Evaluation of Prebiotic Fibers and Pectin on Probiotic Strains and Effect of Bacteriocin-like Substance on the Survival of Listeria Monocytogenes
… (FOS), galactooligosaccharides(GOS), inulin agave (IA), high methoxy pectin (HMP), and low methoxy pectin (LMP) with three strains of probiotic bacteria in order to find the suitable carbohydrates that could be used as synbiotics. In addition, we also aimed to explore the use of acridine …
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Fire on the Mountain: Roasting Pits in the Sheep Range on the Desert National Wildlife Refuge
… of food stuffs, desert succulents such as agave and yuccas were likely the most commonly cooked. Within the Sheep Range in southern Nevada, more than 200 roasting pits were identified and 193 were subsequently documented in the field. Due to the accumulation of discarded materials …
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Identification of rotundone as an important contributor to the flavor of oak aged spirits
… that the compound may also be present in the agave plant. Results of quantification of all potent odorant in bourbons, aged 4, 8, and 12 years and calculation of their odor activity values (OAVs) demonstrated rotundone’s importance to the overall flavor of bourbon. From the quantification data …
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Chemical aspects of some ovine hepatogenous photosensitization diseases
… distribution of saponins in causative plants (Agave lecheguilla, Brachiaria decumbens, Narthecium ossifragum, Nolina texana, Tribulus terrestris and some Panicum species), and the ovine metabolism of saponins implicated in the development of hepatogenous photosensitization diseases, are …