(n.) A biennial plant of the genus Beta, which produces an edible root the first year and seed the second year.
(n.) The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(2) The aim of this study was to follow the changes in the levels of nitrates and nitrites throughout the process of fermentation of sauerkraut from white and red cabbage and red beets.
(3) The presented results proof in tendency that oilseed-rape (00-rape seed), wheat, and barley as green plants can contribute in clostridial toxicosis in hares, whereas grass and beets are involved only partially, and clover is practically completely atoxigenic.
(4) Britain had just joined what was then the common market and the kind of cane sugar the company processed was being challenged by French-grown sugar beet.
(5) The concentration of copper in the concentrate and other feedstuffs (grass, hay, straw, kale, dried sugar beet pulp) could not explain the development of Cu-toxicosis.
(6) The ionophore was fed at 250 mg daily per head incorporated in 1 kg dry sugar beet pulp on pasture and at 65 mg per kg concentrate afterwards (corresponding with 27 ppm in the ration DM).
(7) The results suggest that the diminished glycemic response after the beet-fibre meal is associated with an increased response of somatostatin, giving a reduced glucose absorption and a delayed gastrointestinal transit time.
(8) Sugar beet suspension cells and protoplasts were exposed to 20 kHz ultrasound and the amount of 35S-methionine incorporated into cellular protein was determined after 2 days of culture.
(9) The results indicated that the optimal cropping pattern for the minimum-cost diets for auto consumption include traditional foods (corn, beans, broad bean, wheat, potato), non-traditional foods (carrots, broccoli, beets) and foods of animal origin (milk, eggs).
(10) Fruit, wheat, rye and beet fibre were studied in isoenergetic meals for NIDD patients and healthy volunteers.
(11) Northern blot analysis demonstrates that the coxII gene exhibits altered transcript patterns in CMS compared with normal sugar beet.
(12) Only 4 of the analysed 21 vegetables exhibited fluorine contents exceeding those admitted by the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (2.5 mg F per 1 kg of vegetable wet weight); they included: young beet leaves, parsley tops, lettuce and sorrel.
(13) Comparison of sugar beet samples in ELISA and immuno-electronmicroscopy showed good correlation, demonstrating the good performance of B103 antibody for broad application in BNYVV diagnosis.
(14) DNA gel blot analyses indicated the presence of at least two copies of BADH in the haploid sugar beet genome.
(15) With ileum cannulated sows were tested the apparent precaecal and faecal digestibility of crude nutrients from raw and thermically treated fodder sugar beets of size "Rosamona".
(16) A soybean shoot cDNA expression library was screened with polyclonal antibodies raised against red beet complex I and several clones were identified.
(17) The influence of the replacement of cereals by sugar beet in the rations was tested with 6 calves supplied with re-entrant duodenal or ruminal cannulae in 4 measuring periods between their 11th and 17th weeks of life.
(18) The addition of 1 g sugar-beet fibre (Beta Fibre) to 3 g semi-synthetic diet resulted in a 54% increase in iron and a 39% increase in zinc absorption in rats.
(19) A cDNA clone of beet yellows viral RNA expressed the viral coat protein gene in E. coli.
(20) The working conditions of female beet growers and their health effects were studied.
Spinach
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Spinage
Example Sentences:
(1) Single stranded DNA and RNA are hydrolyzed by the spinach endonuclease.
(2) In a complete system, consisting of a dye-donor couple, ferredoxin, thioredoxin and ferredoxin-thioredoxin reductase, light activation of purified spinach fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase was observed in vitro.
(3) Recent characterization of spinach phosphoribulokinase has revealed that the homodimeric molecule contains only two tryptophans per 44-kDa subunit.
(4) The rate of the irreversible damage to the reaction center II, caused by exposure of spinach thylakoids to high light was slowed down by anaerobic conditions and by lowering the temperature.
(5) A protein kinase was isolated from spinach thylakoid membranes by solubilization with octyl glucoside and cholate.
(6) The bean sprout enzyme catalyzed ferredoxin-dependent electron transfer from NADPH to equine cytochrome c at a high rate but, unlike the spinach enzyme, exhibited little NADPH to 2,6-dichlorophenol indophenol diaphorase activity.
(7) Absorbance changes in the region 500-565 nm and at 702 nm, brought about by excitation of Photosystems 1 and 2, respectively, were measured in spinach chloroplasts at minus 50 degrees C. Either dark-adapted chloroplasts were used or chloroplasts preilluminated with a number of short saturating flashes just before cooling.
(8) Treatment with the carboxyl amino acid modifier 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide (EDC) inhibited half of the high-affinity Mn-binding site in spinach and Scenedesmus WT PS II membranes and all of the available site in Scenedesmus LF-1 mutant PS II membranes.
(9) The dissociation constants of immobilized ferredoxin from spinach, barley and S. vulcanus for spinach ferredoxin-NADP reductase were 0.922, 2.505 and 5.209 microM, respectively, whereas those for barley ferredoxin-NADP reductase were 1.159, 0.579 and 2.851 microM, respectively.
(10) Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and associated CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution by chloroplasts isolated from pea shoots and spinach leaves is almost completely inhibited by 10mm-dl-glyceraldehyde.
(11) Using the expression vector lambda gt11 and immunochemical detection, six cDNA clones that encode the entire precursor polypeptides for spinach thioredoxin m were isolated and characterized.
(12) Sucrose-phosphate synthase (SPS) purified from spinach leaves harvested in the dark, was activated by mammalian protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A).
(13) Crystals of spinach ribulose-P2 carboxylase were likewise analyzed to show that dimers of the L-subunit were also predominant.
(14) CO2 fixation of intact spinach chloroplasts is inhibited by nitrite in a pH-dependent mode.
(15) For this purpose intact spinach chloroplasts were biosynthetically preloaded with radioactive diacylglycerol to provide a sulfoquinovosyl acceptor.
(16) Within this context we report and discuss the implication of three kinds of data on spinach chloroplast LHCP.
(17) A 7,022 bp BamHI-EcoRI fragment, located in the inverted repeat of spinach chloroplast, has been sequenced.
(18) The procedure for isolatio of the coupling factor is designed to separate this large (approximately 13 S) enzyme from the smaller (4.2 S) conventional adenylate kinase of spinach chloroplasts.
(19) Photosystem I fragments were prepared by digitonin treatment of spinach chloroplasts.
(20) In Tris-washed spinach chloroplasts (incapable of O2 evolution), the chlorophyll a fluorescence transient in the presence of various artificial electron donors (hydroquinone, diphenylcarbazide, MnCl2 and NH2OH) and in the absence of bicarbonate ions shows a rapid initial rise; the addition of 10 mM NaHCO3 restores the transient to one characteristic of normal chloroplast.