Leader in cancer treatment and prevention research honored
...d the hypothesis that dietary supplementation with wheat bran fiber could prevent colon cancer. This study has become the benchmark for the conduct of large population-based studies in which healthy subjects are recruited from the practices of community physicians. More recently, his work defining nuclear...Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...products, papayas, pink grapefruit and watermelon, wheat germs, whole grains, mangoes, leafy green vegetables, nuts and olive oils. Of course, this needs to be part of an all-round healthy lifestyle and diet with plenty of vegetables and other healthy foods. Regular consumption of supplements and fortified...Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
...rom grasses to trees to agricultural crops such as wheat and corn - must have the ability to transition from the darkness of an underground environment to life above ground. "The development of seed burial in plants provided a long-term survival benefit through protection from predators and hos...'Gene chips' research in cotton could lead to superior variety
... "Genomic resources generated in rice, corn and wheat have produced tremendous impacts on the plant research community and plant production agriculture. Cotton researchers are establishing new information and technologies that will enhance cotton's share of competitive federal research support for genom......stines of celiac patients and can be stimulated by wheat gluten, via IL15, in cells grown in the laboratory. By expressing MICA, the intestinal cells provide a target for CTL cells that are simultaneously stimulated by IL15 to attack the intestinal tissue. The authors also suggest that controlling this pro...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...ays, the Mexican tests used only readily available wheat and corn; the Sandia tests include, in addition, triticale, sorghum, barley, and oats. The nutritional quality of the hydroponically grown plants will be determined by Clint Loest, a professor of animal nutrition at New Mexico State University, whose...Oldest evidence for processing of wild cereals: starch grains from barley, wheat, on grinding stone
...processing of close wild relatives of domesticated wheat and barley, a key step in cultural development, to 23,000 years before the present era. "Ten thousand years before people were cultivating cereals, they were processing wild barley: starch grain analysis establishes a clear link between an intensive...Plant respiration not just an evolutionary leftover, study shows
... used two different methods to demonstrate in both wheat and Arabidopsis, a common research plant, that when plants are exposed to elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide or low levels of oxygen -- both conditions that inhibit photorespiration -- nitrate assimilation in the plant's shoot slows down. ...Purdue yeast makes ethanol from agricultural waste more effectively
...rom agricultural residues, such as corn stalks and wheat straw, compared with "wild-type" yeasts that occur...e ethanol from the sugars the company derives from wheat straw. "We have confirmed that Purdue's recombinant glucose- and xylose-fermenting yeast is the most...Mite transmits viruses damaging to wheat
...at unhealthy, discolored plants in Texas Panhandle wheat fields is part of Dr. Charles Rush's job. He is a ...The damage is caused by two different viruses, the wheat streak mosaic and the High Plains, he said. Both are transmitted by the wheat curl mite (Aceria tosi...Soybeans may reduce risk of colon cancer
...r foods rich in sphingolipids are eggs, cheese and wheat flour. The study is the latest in a series of findings showing the medical benefits of the soybean. Earlier this year, researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Colorado State University and Brigham Young University found that eating soy can h...Plant disease under the homeland security microscope
...ignificant plant diseases including sorghum ergot, wheat streak mosaic virus, and rhizomania, a soil-borne virus affecting sugar beets.Federal and state agencies monitor national borders for plant pest introductions. Still, on occasion, new ones will slip through. Growers often spot these anomalies, Stein ...Is that plant a tortoise or a hare? Answer predicts its response to environmental change
...e, poplar takes in more ozone than pine. Soybeans, wheat and other crops are bred to grow fast, and they tend to be like poplars. This was an important predictor of how these trees and crops would respond to pollution. I wondered how they had come to have these traits in the first place and what the implic...Newly cloned gene key to global adaptation of wheat
...avis, has pieced together a clearer picture of how wheat has been able to adapt to such a wide range of cli...y, which have practical implications for improving wheat varieties through manipulation of flowering times, will be reported in the March 12 issue of the jou...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...fering new hope for increasing tolerance levels of wheat flour products. "These results showed that a b...dt, M. Gobbetti. 2003. Sourdough bread made from wheat and nontoxic flours and started with selected lactobacilli is tolerated in celiac sprue patients. A...K-State professor to give paper on potential impact of ag bioterrorism
...atural out breaks in plants such as karnal bunt of wheat or Southern wilt of solanaceous plants caused by the bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2. "Had we had a system in place it probably would have allowed us to pick that up a little sooner," Stack said. Stack said in the near future,......tenths of the law, especially if the purchase is a wheat variety protected by the Plant Variety Protection ...there will be one here one day. We've got too much wheat grown here for there not to be. It's already happened in Wichita Falls. We in Extension are always t...Highlights of Tufts University nutrition research: January 2004
...ds include beef, poultry, shellfish, beans, liver, wheat germ and prune juice. In addition to iron and calcium, the newsletter advises people not to forget the other bone building nutrients such as vitamin D and vitamin K, which are also part of a well-balanced diet. Loss of Familiar Fruits and Vegetable...Study finds huge variability in vitamin E absorption
...0 I.U. of vitamin E with skim milk; a serving of a wheat breakfast cereal fortified with 30 I.U. of vitamin E; a serving of wheat breakfast cereal fortified with 400 I.U. of vitamin E; and a serving of wheat breakfast cereal with ...... Utah. "Can you imagine loading 40 acres worth of wheat stalks, roots and all into the tank of your car or SUV every 20 miles?" asks ecologist Jeff Dukes, whose study will be published in the November issue of the journal Climatic Change. But that's how much ancient plant matter had to be buried millio...