Maize Majoral

Pastorello, E.A., et al. (2000). The maize major allergen, which is responsible food-induced allergic reactions, is a lipid transfer protein, J. Allergy Clin. Immunol., 106, 4, 744-751. 

The major sources of variation in 8 C are the two C4 plants, maize and sugar cane. Most other foods are C3 and animals used for food were mainly feeding on C3 plants. Maize and sugar cane (in the form of molasses) are found... 

Rochester, D.E., Winter, J. A. Shah, D.M. (1986). The structure and expression of maize genes encoding the major heat shock protein, hsp70. EMBO Journal, 5, 451-8. 

Soils in the North China Plain and Loess Plateau regions contained 0.04-3.01 mg/kg DTPA-extractable Zn with an average of 0.44 mg/kg. The concentrations of DTPA-extractable Zn in northern China are presented in Table 7.7. In the loessial soils of the Loess Plateau, 64% of the soil samples had less than 0.5 mg/kg of bioavailable Zn. The bioavailable Zn in the arid soils of North China varied from 0.08-11.84 mg/kg with an average of 1 mg/kg, with 41% of the soil samples having < 0.5 mg/kg of bioavailable Zn. The average amount of bioavailable Zn in calcareous soils was 0.35 mg/kg (trace - 1.12 mg/kg). The North China Plain and Loess Plateau are major Zn-deficient regions in China. Calcareous paddy soils frequently displayed Zn deficiency in rice. Zinc fertilizers have been applied to rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, cotton and fruit trees where bioavailable Zn was less than 0.5 mg/kg. 

Based on the results from radish seeds, we also studied the influence of the rue extract on germination of purslane. Purslane is a major weed worldwide of 45 crops in 81 countries. The ploughable layer of the soil cropped with maize contains about 220,000 purslane seed per m2. Purslane fruit is a capsule with a pyxidium and a caliptra containing 50-70 black seeds (Holm etal.,1977). 

Four cereal crops have thus far been utilized for the production of recombinant proteins maize, rice, wheat and barley. It is notable that, despite the attention given to tobacco, oilseed rape and potatoes as major expression systems, the only cultivated... 

The dry seed crops that have been used as host plants for molecular farming include the cereals maize, rice, wheat and barley (see also Chapter 4), and the grain legumes soybean, pea, pigeon pea and peanut. Maize, rice, wheat, barley, soybean and pea have been investigated as general production platforms, while pigeon pea and peanut have been used solely for the expression of animal vaccine candidates. The major... 

Starch is a major component of almost all baked products. It most commonly is incorporated into products in the form of wheat flour but various forms of nearly pure starch such as corn flour (maize starch), wheat starch and potato starch are occasionally used. 

Starch is the major energy store of plants chemically it is a polymer of glucose and occurs in two separate forms, amylose and amylopectin. The ratio of the two types depends on the plant that the starch has come from typically starch is 20 30% amylose and 70-80% amylopectin but there are amylomaizes with more than 50% amylose while waxy maize produces almost pure amylopectin with less than 3% amylose. 

Maintenance warehouse, 25 470 Maize, 26 286. See also Corn Major commodity fibers, 22 172-175 Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, 20 831... 

Starch is one of the most abimdant plant polysaccharides and is a major source of carbohydrates and energy in the human diet (Zobel and Stephen, 1995). Starch is the most widely used hydrocolloid in the food industry (Wanous, 2004), and is also a widely used industrial substrate polymer. Total annual world production of starch is approximately 60 million MT and it is predicted to increase by additional approximately 10 million MT by 2010 (FAO, 2006b LMC International, 2002 S. K. Patil and Associates, 2007). Com/maize Zea mays L.), cassava (also known as tapioca—Manihot escu-lenta Crantn.), sweet potato Ipomoea batatas L.), wheat Triticum aestivum L.), and potato Solanum tuberosum L.) are the major sources of starch, while rice Oryza sativa L.), barley Hordeum vulgare L.), sago Cycas spp.), arrowroot Tacca leontopetaloides (L.) Kimtze), buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum Moench), etc. contribute in lesser amounts to total global production. 

Biofuels such as bioethanol and biodiesel originate from cereal crops such as plant oils, and sugar beets. Today the production cost of bioethanol cereal crops is still too high, which is the major reason why bioethanol has not made its breakthrough as a fuel source yet. When producing bioethanol from maize or sugar cane the raw material constitutes about 40-70% of the production cost. 

The amounts of the trans isomers of p-coumaric and ferulic acids were approximately ten times those of the corresponding cis isomers dehydrodiferulic acid occurred mainly as the trans, trans isomer. A major difference between cell walls of temperate (e.g., ryegrass, wheat) and sub-tropical (e.g., maize, Coastal bermudagrass) graminaceous plants is that the latter group contain comparatively large amounts of frans-p-coumaric acid... 

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