These have unique properties in terms of nutritional value, starch functionality, nutraceutical properties, and use for the preparation of foods. In terms of human foods, maize is usually channeled into three major milling industries: dry, wet, and nixtamalization, which generate raw materials that...
Findings: Compositing maize with groundnut significantly (p ≤ 0.05) increased proteins from 10 per cent in maize flour to up to 21 per cent in composite porridge (denoted DFC1). The energy values for composite porridges were 434 Kcal/100 g when compared with 398 Kcal/100 g established for...
Additional losses of maize grain may reach 10 million tons per year as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change under climate change (Edmeades, 2008). Moreover, major maize producing areas will become warmer, drier and subject to an array of new maize diseases and pests under climate ...
Heatmap showing the Potential Number of People Fed (PNPF) per ha per year (numbers in the cells) considering the recommended daily allowances for key human nutrients, for a range of milpa systems in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. Crop associations codes are: M-P: Maize-Potato, M-B-...
Five maize per treatment were sampled for the nutritional quality measurements. The threshed maize kernels were evenly mixed, and each nutritional quality test sample weighed 200 g. Crude fiber was measured via the intermediate filtration method. The fat content was determined via the Soxhlet extra...
The analysis of chromosome-wise informative SNP markers revealed that SNP markers varied from 622 on chromosome 10 to 1370 on chromosome 1 with an average of 904 markers per chromosome. The gene diversity (GD), PIC and heterozygosity values among chromosomes were consistent and displayed slight var...
The scale bar corresponds to a distance of 5 changes per 100 amino acid positions. Full size image Figure 2 The multiple sequence alignment of maize NAS members with AtNAS1 from Arabidopsis thaliana and OsNAS1 from rice. The first and second NAS region in ZmNAS2;1 (ZmNAS2;2) were ...
Four replicate samples per genotype with approx. 100 conidia were assessed and are given ± SE. The data for every developmental stage is given in percent relative to the total number of infection events that exhibited the preceding developmental stage. (B) and (C) Relative quantities of ZmNAC...
irregularis, a second inoculation was performed 1 week after sowing with 200 spore/plant, and a third inoculation was performed 2 weeks after sowing with 200 spore per plant. Control plants were treated with distilled water. Plants were grown under three different nitrogen regimes (1 mM NO3−...
Zein accounts for almost 60% of total endosperm protein, strongly influencing maize nutritional properties. The lack of lysine and tryptophan in zein results in low nutritional value [4]. In view of the low lysine content of maize seeds, a major effort began in the middle of the 20th century...