A complex agricultural society in Uruguay's La Plata basin, 4,800-4,200 years ago
...public plaza. Paleobotanical analyses of preserved starch grains and phytoliths tiny plant fossils- show that Los Ajos' farmers adopted the earliest cultivars known in southern South America, including maize, squash, beans and tubers. Over time, around 3,000 years ago, the mound complex architectural plan ...Chemical analysis of mushrooms shows their nutritional benefits
...ings: White buttons had the highest levels of ash; starch was highest in maitakes and shiitakes; and crude protein and acid-hydrolyzed fats were highest in crimini, white buttons and maitakes. For plums and prunes, which are known to be good sources of dietary fiber, the researchers analyzed individual carb...New winter hulless barley has high protein
...aditional hulled barley cultivars that have higher starch and energy content, therefore, better feed quality...pearance, ulless barley is significantly higher in starch content and significantly lower in fiber than traditional hulled barley," he said. Virginia Tech rel...Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines
...her protein or vitamin content or easier-to-digest starch for ethanol production. Funded by a new five-year... could use these lines to identify genes that make starch that is easier for enzymes to digest. Since ethanol is produced from maize starch, such a refinement...Mechanism for the captation of nutrients in plants- unknown to date
...captured through endocitosis is that involved in starch production. If this is the case, it will be necess...lant varieties. For example, in order to increase starch production in potato or maize, endocitosis would have to be encouraged through the stimulation of th......g deficit of important amino acids as well as more starch and fat could lead to poorer health in offspring who develop under those conditions....A slight difference and significant similarities
...es, composed of fructose (fruit sugar). The normal starch is made of glucose. Nutritionally, fructans are classed as fiber and have a beneficial effect on human intestinal flora. The main results of the study showed that substances in the Agria, Dsire, Granola, Linda and Solara varieties exhibit a surprisin...MSU researchers receive $4 million grant to uncover gene functions
...iculture and human health, such as vegetable oils, starch for ethanol-based fuels, vitamin E and amino acids. Despite the many functions of a chloroplast, the MSU team estimates that it takes only around 4,000 genes to make a functional chloroplast, which is similar to a simple bacterium, rather than the te...Important factors involved in the synthesis of starch in plants
...e classic model for explaining the biosynthesis of starch in plant leaves has been seriously called in to qu...n. While to date the accepted belief has been that starch biosynthesis is produced solely in the chloroplast, biologist Nora Alonso Casajs' PhD provides evide...Highlights from the November Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...ional risk": Transition to heart healthy Higher starch Average male Lower variety Empty calories The researchers emphasized that none of the dietary patterns should be considered perfect from a nutritional or health risk perspective. Their goal in studying men's nutrition intakes is to determine any...UMaine researcher puts new date on early agriculture
... "Smithsonian researcher Linda Perry's analysis of starch grains extracted from sediment samples and stone t...r making tools and other items. Evidence of potato starch was also found at the site. In addition to changing some long-held beliefs about South American ag...First Amazon-Andean crop plant transfer and corn processing in Peru 3600-4000 years ago
...al link: 3600-4000 year-old plant microfossils and starch grains. Heading to the supermarket to pick up some...ndean highlands. So the presence of tiny Arrowroot starch grains and phytoliths on the grinding stones and in associated sediments means that people were movi...Research could lead to better drugs and whiter whites
...the chemical reactions that break down protein and starch stains; a better understanding of how this process works could one day lead to more effective, faster acting agents."...Super-sized cassava plants may help fight hunger in Africa
...three cassava plants an E. coli gene that controls starch production. A non-modified fourth plant served as a control. "Cassava actually has this same gene," Sayre said. "But the bacterial version of the gene is about a hundred times more active." The modified plants converted more of their sugar into starc...Energy-rich portfolio of new genome sequencing targets for DOE JGI
...rch community, including a better understanding of starch and protein biosynthesis, root storage, and stress controls, and enable crop improvements, while shedding light on such mechanisms shared by other important related plants, including the rubber tree and castor bean. The cassava project, led by Clau...Super blackcurrants with boosted vitamin C
...ctors. To date the research has discovered that starch that accumulates after the berries have been harve...rbohydrate levels across the entire plant to alter starch deposits to explore how this affects vitamin levels and fruit quality. Dr Robert Hancock, the rese...Obesity crisis in insects? Not a problem, says expert
...at one of two plants, an Arabidopsis mutant low in starch or an Arabidopsis mutant (plant) high in starch. When the caterpillars were reared in carbohydrate-rich environments for multiple generations, they developed the ability to eat excess carbohydrate without adding fat to their bodies, Behmer said. On...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 1, 2006
...pment Unlocking the secrets of slowly digestible starch Lighting the way toward understanding nitric oxid...ELEASE Unlocking the secrets of slowly digestible starch Biomacromolecules Scientists have begun to unlock the secrets of starches - knowledge that could ...A chilling solution: Measuring below-ground carbon without destroying trees
...nd below-ground processes were getting carbon from starch reserves." Fall experiments, however, showed that both chilling and girdling rapidly reduced soil carbon dioxide efflux, showing that both techniques stop or reduce the movement below ground of carbon recently produced by photosynthesis. The differ...New study shows promise of toxicogenomics in environmental monitoring
...lpha amylase genes, which are needed to break down starch and as a result interferes with digestion. They also found that exposure to copper decreased the activity of genes that encode glucan binding proteins and lectins, which are possibly involved in the water flea's ability to recognize an infection. "...