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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"food plants"”.
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Climate change risk to southern African native wild food plants
Climate change is a threat to food security. A substantial body of research supports this conclusion for climate change threats to plants with agricultural value, as well as wild-harvested food from animals, such as fish. However, much less is known about climate change threats to wild-harvested …
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ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS- PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSES OF SOME MEDICINAL NATURAL PRODUCTS IN FOOD PLANTS
… (BHT) and butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) as food additives because negative effects to human health have been reported. thus, a replacement of these synthetics by antioxidant extractions from various foods has been proposed. By the generation of more than eight thousand different phenolics, …
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Bioaccumulation of microcystins in terrestrial food plants and the development of novel sorbents for monitoring microcystins in irrigation water
… and cylindrospermopsin (CYN) on terrestrial plants including plants used for food. Ever since, the use of surface waters contaminated with cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins for agricultural purposes has been receiving growing attention. In hypereutrophic waters, such as commonly found in …
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An investigation of certain waterfowl food plants and a botanical survey of Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Princess Anne County, Virginia
… 198 genera from 76 families were found. Of these plants, five are important submerged aquatic water-fowl foods and twenty-four are emergent or marsh food species. The present production of submerged waterfowl food plants is much below the potential for the area, though somewhat greater than in …
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The effect of fire and heat on germination of southeastern United States wildlife food plants with particular emphasis on the genus Cassia
… United States to promote the growth of legume plants which produce seeds important as quail food. These seeds are characterized by a hard seed coat and the ability to remain dormant but viable for long periods of time. This study was conducted to determine the effect of heat on germination of …
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Dewatering biosolids from a milk processing plant: Agricultural fibers as flocculant aids and ultrafiltration membrane concentration
… portion of the total organic wastes produced by food plants each year. Disposal of these solids is a significant environmental problem. Biosolids contain between 30 and 45% protein; therefore, they can be recycled as animal food.
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Plant-delivered Cholera Toxin B subunit as an Immunomodulatory Molecule
… induction. We have generated transgenic plants synthesizing CTB conjugated with vaccine antigens for food plant-based prevention of cholera and rotavirus toxin-induced diarrhea and for autoimmune diseases such as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM).</p> <p>Mice fed with transgenic …
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Impact of the invasive ant Linepithema humile on native ant assemblages on the western slopes of Table Mountain and implications for ant-butterfly associations
… butterfly density was scored and distribution of food plants were assessed at two sites.
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Diet and Nutrition of the Pronghorn Antelope
… South Dakota consumed at least 32 different plants species. Major forage plants were big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentate), silver sage (A. cana), yellow sweet clover (Meliotus officinalis), gold aster (Chrysopsis villosa), and blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis). Cultivated small grain crops were …
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Application of Bacteriophage in Food Manufacturing Facilities for the Control of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria sp
… to treat and reduce the incidence of Listeria in food manufacturing facilities, and thereby reduce the risk of food products being cross-contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria incidence in food manufacturing ready-to-eat environments was surveyed at 31 ready-to-eat (RTE) food plants. A …
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Operational initiatives in the food industry
… & applicability of lean thinking concepts in the food industry & to develop a strategy for the productive adoption of lean thinking in the food industry. In . order to investigate the application of lean manufacturing concepts in the food industry, a lean manufacturing framework comprising of lean …
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A Tropical Flour: Manioc in the Afro-Brazilian World, 1500-1800
… system which allowed for the diffusion of plants, such as manioc, throughout the Atlantic basin. The second part of the research combines primary accounts speaking of maniocs importance to African populations, both free and enslaved, in the New World and secondary literature on the …
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Cyanogenesis and the feeding preference of Acraea horta (L.) (Lepidoptera : Acraeinae)
The statement that similar sorts of plants often have similar medicinal properties (Le. contain similar chemicals) is at least 300 years old, while the concept probably dates back several thousand years (Stace, 1980). Indeed, a knowledge of the secondary chemicals produced by different plant …
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The Fisherman Lake Slave and their environment : a story of floral and faunal resources
… for use in technology as well as most of the food. Plants provided a variety of foods, medicines and were used extensively in technology. An understanding of plant and animal interactions was indicated by the Slave in their description of plants as animal foods, and the use of plants in …
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The dietary mineral content of Claytonia lanceolata corms from multiple populations across the Columbia Plateau region of North America
… lineage ~ 2.8 mya, humans have relied on foraged foods to obtain dietary mineral nutrition. Around 12,000 years ago, people began shifting towards a lifestyle of food production. The rapid shift in lifestyle significantly altered the human diet, and research suggests our genomes have had …
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Doing food security in practice: seeds, seed banking and preparations for the future
This thesis is about the banking of the seeds of food plants. It considers the practices and politics of that banking in order to understand its contribution to future food security scenarios. The thesis expands upon existing literature to provide new analytical and empirical insights into the …
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Early formative subsistence and agriculture in southeastern Mesoamerica
… Here, I propose that cultivation of indigenous food plants was also an important component in the subsistence system and was established prior to the introduction of non-local domesticated plants such as maize. The development of cultivation practices probably occurred as a gradual progression …
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Effects of Polyphenols on Vasomodulatory Factors and Associated Cell Signalling
… function. In the Black Sea area, a number of plants are consumed alone and as ingredients in traditional foods, and dill, nettle, kale, Sideritis, pomegranate and persimmon were identified as polyphenolrich traditional food plants. Bioactive-rich extracts of their edible parts were used to …
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Optimal yeast strains for the production of fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass
… viable option, the bioprocess must use non-food plants, called cellulosic biomass. Such renewable biomass, however, contains both hexose and pentose sugars, mainly glucose and xylose, which are not efficiently fermented by microbes. Despite numerous efforts for improving xylose fermentation …
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