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Open AccessMetabolomics and machine learning technique revealed that germination enhances the multi-nutritional properties of pigmented rice
Enhancing the dietary properties of rice is crucial to contribute to alleviating hidden hunger and non-communicable diseases in rice-consuming countries. Germination is a bioprocessing approach to increase the...
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Chemometric-Based Analysis of Metabolomics Studies of Bioactive Fractions of Pleurotus osteratus and Their Correlation with In Vitro Anti-Cancer Activity
Richness in nutrients with an ample of the myco-bioactive molecules makes Pleurotus osteratus preferential mushroom. In this paper, we conducted a preliminary study on bio-assay-guided fractionation of dichlorome...
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Potential of underutilized crops to introduce the nutritional diversity and achieve zero hunger
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Open AccessLaser microdissection transcriptome data derived gene regulatory networks of develo** rice endosperm revealed tissue- and stage-specific regulators modulating starch metabolism
Laser microdissection applied on the develo** rice endosperm revealed tissue- and stage-specific regulators modulating programmed cell death and desiccation tolerance mechanisms in the central starchy endosp...
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Rice Grain Quality Benchmarking Through Profiling of Volatiles and Metabolites in Grains Using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
Gas chromatograph coupled with mass spectrometer is widely used to profile volatiles and metabolites from the homogenized rice flour obtained from mature grains. Rice grains consist of central endosperm which ...
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Quantifying Grain Digestibility of Starch Fractions in Milled Rice
Rice is one of the staple foods which serves as the major source of carbohydrate in the human diet. A typical milled rice grain is mainly composed of starch of up to 80–90%, with an average of 6–8% proteins an...
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Determination of Cadmium Concentration in Milled and Brown Rice Grains Using Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
Heavy metal pollution is a growing public health concern since it poses a food risk to public health via metal transfer. Cadmium is of particular concern because it is a potential carcinogen if exceed tolerabl...
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Measuring Head Rice Recovery in Rice
Head rice recovery (HRR) is a milling quality attribute that is highly influential toward the market price of rice. It is defined as the proportion of paddy rice that retains 75% of its length after milling. F...
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Characterization of Mechanical Texture Attributes of Cooked Milled Rice by Texture Profile Analyses and Unraveling Viscoelasticity Properties Through Rheometry
The mechanical attributes of cooked rice grains reflected by textural characteristics capture consumers preferences. Two of these attributes such as hardness and stickiness are typically indicated in grain qua...
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Determination of Macronutrient and Micronutrient Content in Rice Grains Using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES)
The endosperm is mostly composed of , which serves as the major source of calories for more than half of the world’s population. Macro and micronutrients make a minor proportion of the rice grain, which p...
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Novel Imaging Techniques to Analyze Panicle Architecture
Panicle architecture is known to directly influence grain yield in rice, and thus is an important trait for rice varietal improvement. However, spike branching consequences trigger variation in number of super...
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Measurement of Rice Grain Dimensions and Chalkiness, and Rice Grain Elongation Using Image Analysis
Measurements of rice grain dimensions, percent grain chalkiness, and grain elongation used to be tedious and slow due to the manual nature of measurements (e.g., use of calipers to measure grains one at a time...
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Multi-Dimensional Cooking Quality Classification Using Routine Quality Evaluation Methods
A battery of assays to characterize the cooking and eating attributes of rice have been in routine use for several decades. The classification system to group rice varieties into different quality types are of...
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Improving Head Rice Yield and Milling Quality: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects
Increasing paddy yield in rice does not directly translate to enhancing food security because significant decrease in grain yield can happen during postharvest processing of the rice paddy. In parallel with en...
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Method Development of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Approaches for Nondestructive and Rapid Estimation of Total Protein in Brown Rice Flour
Rice varietal development and improvement programs are constantly seeking means to shorten the breeding cycle in order to deliver new, consumer-acceptable rice varieties to farmers and to consumers. Advances i...
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Analysis of Develo** Rice Grain Transcriptome Using the Agilent Microarray Platform
Transcriptome analysis reflects the status quo of transcribed genetic code present in the form of mRNA, which helps to infer biological processes and unravel metabolic status. Despite the increasing adoption o...
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Improving Rice Grain Quality: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects
Rice grain quality encompasses complex interrelated traits that cover biochemical composition, cooking, eating, nutritional, and sensory properties. Because rice endosperm is composed mainly of starch, rice gr...
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Open AccessMultivariate-based classification of predicting cooking quality ideotypes in rice (Oryza sativa L.) indica germplasm
For predicting texture suited for South and South East Asia, most of the breeding programs tend to focus on develo** rice varieties with intermediate to high amylose content in indica subspecies. However, va...
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Cross-Protection by Oxidative Stress: Improving Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses Including Salinity
Abiotic stresses severely limit crop productivity. Plants being sessile, they are continuously exposed to a broad range of environmental stresses. Hence, multiple stress situations are more likely to occur in ...
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Open AccessWhole genome sequencing-based association study to unravel genetic architecture of cooked grain width and length traits in rice
In this study, we used 2.9 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and 393,429 indels derived from whole genome sequences of 591 rice landraces to determine the genetic basis of cooked and raw grain leng...
