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    Alpha-Activity of Wheat and Flour

    IN their work on naturally occurring radioactivity in man and his environment, Mayneord and his co-workers have indicated1,2 the wide range of alpha-radioactivity found in the more common foodstuffs. Using the sa...

    E. MARSDEN, E. N. GREER in Nature (1961)

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    Isolation of Methoxy- and 2 : 6-Dimethoxy-p-benzoquinone from Fermented Wheat Germ

    THE addition of wheat germ to flour lowers its baking quality, as is at once obvious from the smaller volume of the loaf. Hullett1 and Hullett and Stern2 found that if the wheat germ is first fermented sufficient...

    D. J. COSGROVE, D. G. H. DANIELS, E. N. GREER, J. B. HUTCHINSON, T. MORAN in Nature (1952)

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    The Two Types of Wheat Endosperm

    E. N. GREER, DR. J. J. C. HINTON in Nature (1950)

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    The Scientific Principles of Grain Storage

    THE storage of cereals is a subject which has engaged human ingenuity for a very long time ; its practice is therefore still governed in part by traditions which have grown up in varying circumstances of clima...

    E. N. GREER in Nature (1949)

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    Action of Nitrogen Trichloride on Proteins : Production of Toxic Derivative

    FOLLOWING Mellanby‘s discovery1 that ‘‘Agenized wheaten flour, when fed to dogs, produces hysteria, it was shown in a first paper2 from these laboratories that the syndrome is not due to a nutritional deficiency ...

    H. R. BENTLEY, R. G. BOOTH, E. N. GREER, J. G. HEATHCOTE, J. B. HUTCHINSON in Nature (1948)

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    Heat Damage in Cereal Seeds

    RECENT work by Peters1 and his co-workers upon burn damage in animal tissue reveals features of primary damage not unlike some present in grain which has been damaged by excessive heat during drying. This damage ...

    DR. J. B. HUTCHINSON, E. N. GREER, DR. P. T. THOMAS in Nature (1946)

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    Dormancy in British-Grown Wheat

    BEFORE the War, only a relatively small percentage of the wheat used in bread in the British Isles was home-grown. During the War, however, the acreage of home-grown wheat has more than doubled, and a large pr...

    E. N. GREER, J. B. HUTCHINSON in Nature (1945)

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    Attack of Oxygen Molecules upon Highly Crystalline Graphite

    THE accompanying photographs (Fig. 1) illustrate an observation made while studying the oxidation of graphite. A thin flake of Ceylon graphite (99.9 per cent carbon) was oxidised during many hours at 900° C. i...

    E. N. GREER, B. TOPLEY in Nature (1932)