04.04.2013 | Shenshen Zhang; Shaoping Nie; Danfei Huang; Jianqin Huang; Yawei Wang; Mingyong Xie, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

Ganoderma atrum has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. In this study, the antitumor activity of a novel G. atrum polysaccharide (PSG-1) was investigated in vitro and in vivo using S180 tumor-bearing mice. The results showed that PSG-1 significantly inhibited the ...

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04.04.2013 | Cheng-Sheng Chen; Shushi Chen, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

Fractions collected from humic acids under acidic and basic conditions were immobilized on silica gel and used as adsorbents for a variety of agricultural pesticide compounds bearing a single carboxyl functional group and biogenic amines in acetonitrile. Among these compounds examined under ...

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03.04.2013 | Yanyu Xiao; Xi Chen; Liu Yang; Xieting Zhu; Lang Zou; Fanfei Meng; Qineng Ping, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

Curcuminoid, a dietary polyphenolic compound, has poor water solubility and low bioavailability following oral administration. The aim of this study was to develop a formulation of curcuminoid-loaded microemulsion (Cur-ME) to improve its oral bioavailability. The optimized Cur-ME formulation ...

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03.04.2013 | Flavio Breseghello; Alexandre Siqueira Guedes Coelho, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

Plant breeding can be broadly defined as alterations caused in plants as a result of their use by humans, ranging from unintentional changes resulting from the advent of agriculture to the application of molecular tools for precision breeding. The vast diversity of breeding methods can be ...

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03.04.2013 | Jamil Harb; Dominikus Kittemann; Daniel Alexandre Neuwald; Thomas Hoffmann; Wilfried Schwab, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

‘Cameo’ apples stored under high CO2 levels suffer from “skin burning”. Accordingly, this study is aimed to correlate the incidence of skin burning with different polyphenols. After harvest, apples were sorted into bad- and good-colored fruit and further stored under either high (3%) or low ...

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02.04.2013 | Chunhui Ma; Keyvan Dastmalchi; Gema Flores; Shi-Biao Wu; Paola Pedraza-Peñalosa; Chunlin Long; Edward J. Kennelly, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

There are many neotropical blueberries, and recent studies have shown that some have even stronger antioxidant activity than the well-known edible North American blueberries. Antioxidant marker compounds were predicted by applying multivariate statistics to data from LC-TOF-MS analysis and ...

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02.04.2013 | Shu Kaneko; Kenji Kumazawa; Osamu Nishimura, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

An investigation using the aroma extract dilution analysis (AEDA) technique of the aroma concentrate from a raw Japanese soy sauce and the heated soy sauce revealed 40 key aroma compounds including 7 newly identified compounds. Among them, 5(or 2)-ethyl-4-hydroxy-2(or 5)-methyl-3(2H)-furanone ...

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02.04.2013 | Ruisi Liang; Zongbi Bao; Baogen Su; Huabin Xing; Qiwei Yang; Yiwen Yang; Qilong Ren, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

A selective separation of vitamin D3 and tachysterol3 by solvent extraction with 7 organic solvents and 11 ionic liquids (ILs) has been reported. Among organic solvents sulfolane showed optimal extraction performance, giving only a selectivity of 1.44 for tachysterol3 over vitamin D3. ILs ...

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29.03.2013 | Wynnie Margatan; Kirsten Ruud; Qian Wang; Todd Markowski; Baraem Ismail, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

Soy protein isolate (SPI) and β-conglycinin- and glycinin-rich fractions were hydrolyzed using papain and pepsin. Protein denaturation, profiling, and peptide identification were carried out following DSC, SDS-PAGE, and liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis. The ...

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28.03.2013 | Pan Hu; Zengshan Liu; Ruiyun Tian; Honglin Ren; Xiaoxu Wang; Chao Lin; Sheng Gong; Xianmei Meng; Guangming Wang; Yu ..., Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2013

In this article, high-affinity single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) aptamer-targeting F(ab′)2 fragments of saxitoxin (STX) antibodies were selected from a random ssDNA library by the SELEX strategy. After 16 rounds of repeated selection, the enriched ssDNA library was sequenced, and all of the ...

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