Improve the nutritional content of fresh produce.
Vegetables contain several nutrients that help prevent cancer, diabetes, heart and immunodeficiency diseases. Ensuring that these nutrients are still available to consumers by the time the vegetables are purchased has been motivating research in New Zealand. There, scientists with Crop & Food Research want to guarantee that fresh fruit...

A call to farms: diversify the fuel supply.
All the world is waiting for a substitute to gasoline. When that is gone, there will be no more gasoline, and long before that time, the price of gasoline will have risen to a point where it will be too expensive to burn as a motor fuel. The day...

Spider web inspires new nano fiber venture.
A technique that forms a mat of fine fibers, electrospinning, could deliver new materials, potentially produced from waste streams, to the food industry. Electrospinning uses an electrical charge to draw, usually on the micro or nano scale, very fine fibers from a liquid, protein or cellulose. While...

Healthy Halloween Snacking With California Raisins.
Recent Study Shows Raisins May Benefit Oral Health FRESNO, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fall brings a chill in the air, crisp fallen leaves -- and an abundance of sugary treats. With more parents concerned about their children's snacking, especially during Halloween, celebrity fitness trainer Valerie Waters...

Laboratory and field evaluations of Silwet L-77 and Kinetic alone and in combination with imidacloprid and abamectin for the management of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Psyllidae).
ABSTRACT Silwet L-77, an organosilicone adjuvant, was used to enhance coverage of an entomopathogenic fungus in field trials conducted in a central Florida citrus research grove. The results indicated that Silwet L-77, by itself, was toxic to nymphs of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera:...

Executives ... FYI.
Legumes--beans, peas and other edible seeds that are enclosed in pods--are known for their edible oils, protein and essential amino acids, as well as for their ability to convert airborne nitrogen into usable soil nutrients for other plants. Legumes constitute a multibillion-dollar food industry and some of these plants...

Eliminate bitter compounds in potatoes.
USDA-ARS researchers in California have developed a way to eliminate bitter compounds--glycoalkaloids--which form in some varieties of potato. An excessive amount of glycoalkaloids causes many potato lines and varieties to be rejected each year from potato breeding programs. The ARS gene-based strategy blocks these bitter compounds from...

Merck may set up R&D lab in Hyderabad.
HYDERABAD: German pharma major Merck may be looking at setting up an R&D centre in Hyderabad. "The company officials are in talks with the state government. They are interested in setting up the centre at ICICI Knowledge Park near the city," an Andhra Pradesh industry department official said. ...

A SWOT analysis of the University Library of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Library, Umudike, Nigeria.
Introduction Universities are important agents for national development, producing human resources needed for social, economic, and political progress. Universities render essential community service and serve as centers for moral, social and intellectual rejuvenation (Oyediran, 1993). Universities produce knowledge for problem-solving, economic activity, guidance and direction, and the...

Evaluating the use of university libraries in Nigeria: a case study of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike.
Introduction Evaluating the use of library and information system is one of the major concerns and an integral part of library and information science practitioners. It is easily recognized as an important issue, although it has been looked at or defined variously. Scrivener (1967) sees evaluation as,...