The iconic sugar maple--the source of maple syrup--was the tree species that responded most strongly to the restoration of calcium in the soil.
and the Ministry of Agriculture to introduce sorghum pigeon peas cowpeas green grams and sweet potatoes to supplement maize and other traditional staples.
He explained that water pipes use specially prepared tobacco sometimes called shisha--a moist gooey concoction that may include molasses honey
#Genetic treasure hunting in sorghum may benefit crop improvementa consortium of researchers from The University of Queensland the Queensland Department of agriculture Fisheries
and Forestry (DAFF Qld) and BGI has discovered that sorghum a drought-tolerant African crop holds vastly more genetic variation than previously reported.
This study published in Nature Communications today provides an invaluable resource for the genetic improvement of sorghum
and other grass species. Sorghum is not only a food and feed cereal crop but also can be used as the basis of biofuel.
Sorghum is in the same family as rice (Oryza sativa) wheat (Triticum aestivumlinn) and maize (Zea mays) and it is expected to play an increasingly important role in feeding the world's growing population.
Furthermore sorghum's special features such as a small diploid genome and phenotypic diversity make it an ideal C4 grass model.
By conducting whole-genome sequencing the team obtained the genomic data of 44 sorghum lines to represent all major races of cultivated grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in addition to its progenitors and the allopatric Asian species S. propinquum.
The analysis indicated that sorghum possesses a diverse primary gene pool but with decreased diversity in both landrace and improved groups.
The researchers'analyses revealed that sorghum has a strong racial structure and a complex domestication history involving at least two distinct domestication events.
More importantly they found that modern cultivated sorghum was derived from a limited sample of racial variation.
The study identified 8m high-quality SNPS 1. 9m indels and specific gene loss and gain events in S. bicolor providing the largest dataset obtained in sorghum to date.
Our joint efforts yield an invaluable genetic resource for researchers to explore sorghum evolution and its genetic improvement. said Shuaishuai Tai Project Manager from BGI BGI is making continuous efforts for the advancement of agricultural research.
Both high-fructose corn syrup and table sugar (sucrose) are half fructose and half glucose. Potts says the National Research Council recommends that for people no more than 25 percent of calories should be added from sugar which means they don't count what's naturally in an apple banana potato or other nonprocessed food.#
The high-fructose group's diet was made from flour butter pork fat eggs and fructose (the main ingredient in corn syrup) similar to
--which now include non-gluten-containing cereals like corn rice teff quinoa millet buckwheat and sorghum.
C4 grasses include Bermuda grass and sorghum. C4 grains include corn and millet. CAM plants include tropical succulent plants such as cactus salt bush and agave.
which largely comes from corn sorghum and meat animals fed on C4 grasses and grains Cerling says.
wheat maize rice barley rye millet sorghum soybean sunflower potato cassava sugarcane sugar beet oil palm rapeseed (canola) and groundnut (peanut.
of which (60%)comes down to rice wheat maize millet and sorghum. The decline in the diversity of crops and animals is occurring in tandem with the need to sharply increase world food production
Many commercial beekeepers use honey substitutes such as high-fructose corn syrup or sugar water to feed their colonies.
and dump p-coumaric acid into their high fructose corn syrup she hopes that her team's research can be used as the basis of future work aimed at improving bee health.
because if you look at the evolutionary history of Apis mellifera this species did not evolve with high fructose corn syrup.
#Verifying that sorghum is a new safe grain for people with celiac diseasestrong new biochemical evidence exists showing that the cereal grain sorghum is a safe food for people with celiac disease who must avoid wheat
Their study which includes molecular evidence that sorghum lacks the proteins toxic to people with celiac disease appears in ACS'Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Sorghum they note has emerged as an alternative grain for people with celiac disease. In Western countries sorghum traditionally has been feed an animal.
But in Africa and India it long has been a food for people. Recently U s. farmers have begun producing sorghum hybrids that are a white grain known as food-grade sorghum.
The researchers set out to make a detailed molecular determination of whether sorghum contains those toxic gluten proteins.
They describe evidence from an analysis of the recently published sorghum genome the complete set of genes in the plant
and other sources that verify the absence of gluten proteins. The authors also report that sorghum has high nutritional value.
Food-grade sorghums should be considered as an important option for all people especially celiac patients the report concluded.
The authors acknowledge funding from the Regione Campania the Istituto Banco di napoli--Fondazione and the Compagnia di San Paolo.
and then compared that section to a similar section of DNA from sorghum. Sorghum is a grain related to pearl millet
and a complete map of its genome recently was released by Devos'UGA colleague Andy Patterson.
and causing reduced plant height in sorghum was the prime gene candidate controlling pearl millet dwarf stature Devos said.
Remarkably a higher number of genes for the cytochrome P450 family were identified in Ae tauschii (485) than sorghum (365) rice (333) Brachypodium (262) and maize (261.
#Elevated carbon dioxide in atmosphere trims wheat, sorghum moisture needsplenty has been written about concerns over elevated levels of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere
and sorghum and allowing more efficient use of water said K-State agronomy professor Mary Beth Kirkham.
The research showed that sorghum and winter wheat used water more efficiently as a result of the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Kirkham said.
and her students collected to calculate how much the water use efficiency of sorghum has increased since 1958
Due to the increased carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere it now takes 55 milliliters (ml) less water to produce a gram of sorghum grain than it did in 1958 she said.
but spread over the large acreage of sorghum grown in Kansas the more efficient use of water now compared to 1958 should have a large impact.
The research came out of a long collaboration on aluminum tolerance with Embrapa Maize and Sorghum in Brazil
A physiological model for sap exudation in maple treesfor many of us maple syrup is an essential part of breakfast--a staple accompaniment to pancakes
and waffles--but rarely do we think about the complicated and little-understood physiological aspects of syrup production.
and appreciate the opportunity to interact regularly with maple syrup producers. These are people that come from a surprising variety of backgrounds ranging from farmers to retired teachers to construction company owners including very few scientists
Nonetheless we find that maple syrup producers have a real enthusiasm for our work and are excited by the potential for mathematics to contribute to their understanding of very practical problems for the industry.
To allow future studies to identify the functions of slender false brome genes the authors also compared the false brome transcriptome to those of well-studied agricultural species including rice and sorghum.
The syrup you pour on a pancake piles up before slowly oozing out to the sides says Dr. David Mccomas IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice president of the Swri Space science and Engineering Division.
and C4 a more efficient adaptation employed by grasses maize sorghum and sugarcane that is better suited to drought intense sunlight heat and low nitrogen.
C4 crops including maize sorghum switchgrass and sugarcane are able to withstand drought heat nitrogen
volatiles in other grassy crops such as sorghum. â#oethis is just a tip of the iceberg.
and red sorghum grain in Somalia says the report. It notes that children under five accounted for over half of all deaths in Somalia.
and maintain 28 globally important crops including rice wheat soybean sorghum banana apple citrus fruits grape stone fruits
Sorghum exampleit is difficult to distinguish the human impact on the effects of natural factors on the evolution of crop plants.
A Franco-Kenyan research team has managed to do just that for sorghum one of the main cereals in Africa.
and Tharaka peoples making it possible to compare the influence of their different agricultural practices and traditional knowledge on the diversity of sorghum a very important cereal in this area.
and Tharaka peoples each grow a mixture of sorghum varieties that is unique to each group Certain varieties dominate based on ethnic preferences
So despite a common local market sorghum populations are very different there. Each ethnic group leaves its genetic signatureat the same time the researchers inventoried
and sampled the different varieties of sorghum grown by 130 Chuka Mbeere and Tharaka households.
DNA analysis of the 300 plants gathered has identified four genetic groups of sorghum. Two of them correspond to two introduced varieties.
This suggests that the practices of the three communities leave their signature in the genomes of sorghum populations.
which is the growth of the fungus spores on some wheat or sorghum. The product obtained is spread on the substrate (contained in plastic bag)
either with corn barley wheat soybeans rice beans acai seed brown sugar or starch syrup she says.
or high-fructose corn syrup when times are lean inside the hive. This practice has come under scrutiny
The researchers focused on gene activity in response to feeding with honey high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) or sucrose.
In addition rice and rice products such as starch flour and syrup are added commonly to infant foods and drinks.
those that retained a single copy went on to become the plant we now know as sorghum.
The fungus causes charcoal rot in about 500 other host plants including corn sorghum sunflower and other important crops.
These reference areas included pastures annual cropland (soybean sorghum and corn) and Cerrado native vegetation.
When people stop to think about it there's nothing healthy about Antioxidant Cherry 7-Up--it's mostly filled with high fructose syrup or sugar.
and sorghum grown in fields with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels like those expected in the middle of this century.
Nutrients in sorghum and maize remained relatively stable at higher CO2 levels because these crops use a type of photosynthesis called C4
and sorghum and millet have said he. Our previous work here at Illinois has shown that their photosynthesis rates are stimulated not by being elevated at CO2.
and sorghum--where because the buds and shoot tips are inaccessible without damaging the plant
and cheaper varieties are packed in syrup rather than fruit juice explains Dr Oyebode. The negative health impacts of the sugar may well outweigh any benefits.
The researchers presented bees with a series of artificial flowers that required evermore challenging strategies such as moving objects aside or upwards to gain a sugar syrup reward.
When inexperienced bees encountered the most complex flower first they were unable to access the syrup reward
Mirwan made artificial flowers requiring the bees to walk on the underside of a disk to get a sugar syrup reward.
Control bees that had observed not the experienced bees could not access the syrup. Social learning in animals usually involves one individual observing
When the naive bees were allowed to forage on the artificial flowers they gained the syrup in just 3. 5 minutes.
Additionally small amounts of sugar-free vanilla syrup were added to all three milks to make it more difficult for the participants to know which one they were drinking.
In contrast many crops of considerable regional importance--including cereals like sorghum millets and rye as well as root crops such as sweet potato cassava and yam--have lost ground.
and sorghum--two of the most productive crop plants known--into even more productive oil-generating plants.
Sugarcane and sorghum are exceptionally productive plants and if you could make them accumulate oil in their stems instead of sugar this would give you much more oil per acre he said.
and sorghum by 30 percent Long said. And to boost cold tolerance researchers are crossing sugarcane with Miscanthus a related perennial grass that can grow as far north as Canada.
and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the deliberate molasses-slow animals in northeast Costa rica.
The importance of a season of regular rainthe effect of rainfall change on cotton yield also differs from that of crops such as maize sorghum and millet.
hormone-free milk and natural syrups) with a precision and consistency wholly unattainable by humans.
and syrups imported from France. The Briggo mantra is that it's first and foremost a gourmet coffee company--not a technology or device company.
and ask for a touch more milk or another pump of syrup. When the machine is done,
and vanilla ice cream topped with caramelized worms and prickly pear syrup. Photos: Crickets by Flickr/William Neuheisel Ant larva by Lauren Villagran
Beans, sorghum, pulses and soya are processed into packaged food product for sale in cities. Photo: Cleanstar Mozambique Related:
encourage factory production of protein and mass production of high fructose corn syrup, we have (surprise) super-cheap, mass-produced chicken, pork, beef,
which is more valuable than corn syrup anyway. But what do I know? I'm fat
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