Seed storage

Amino acid storage Seed proteins (e.g., gluten), milk proteins (e.g., casein)... 

Walters, C. Ultra-dry seed storage. Seed Sci. Res., 8, 1998a, supplement. 

Soybeans. Vktuady ad soybeans processed in the United States are solvent-extracted with hexane to recover the od. This traditional process is outlined in Figure 4. Beans arriving at the plant are cleaned and dried, if necessary, before storage. When the beans move from storage to processing, they are cleaned further and may be dried and adowed to equdibrate at 10—11% moisture to facditate loosening of the seed coat or hud. They are then cracked. 

A. M. Altschul and H. L. Wilcke, eds., NeiP Protein Foods, Vol. 5, Seed Storage Proteins, Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1985, 471 pp. 

Because the gin capacity is usually not sufficient to keep up with the harvesters, the harvested cotton is often stored in a compacted module and ginned at a later date. The type of storage or seed cotton processing may place additional constraints on the harvest process. If the seed cotton is to be placed in module storage, the cotton should not be harvested until the moisture content is 12% or less and the harvested seed cotton should be free of green plant material such as leaves and grass. 

The rheological behavior of storage XGs was characterized by steady and dynamic shear rheometry [104,266]. Tamarind seed XG [266] showed a marked dependence of zero-shear viscosity on concentration in the semi-dilute region, which was similar to that of other stiff neutral polysaccharides, and ascribed to hyper-entanglements. In a later paper [292], the flow properties of XGs from different plant species, namely, suspension-cultured tobacco cells, apple pomace, and tamarind seed, were compared. The three XGs differed in composition and structural features (as mentioned in the former section) and... 

The number of reports about hemicelluloses that have been covered by this review indicates the significantly increased importance of all types of hemicelluloses as plant constituents and isolated polymers during the last decade. Attention has been paid not only to known hemicelluloses but also to the primary structure, physicochemical, physical, and various functional properties of hemicelluloses isolated from hitherto uninvestigated plants. The efforts to exploit a variety of plant as potential sources of hemicelluloses were pointed out particularly for agricultural crops, wood wastes, as well as for by-products of pulp and rayon fiber technologies. Many studies were devoted to characterize seed-storage hemicelluloses from plants that have been traditionally applied in food and medicine of many underdeveloped countries to find substitutes for imported commercial food giuns. 

Roberts, E.H. (1973). Predicting the storage life of seeds. Seed Science Technology, 1, 499-514. 

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