(a.) Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
(n.) Any grass cultivated for its edible grain, or the grain itself; -- usually in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
(2) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(3) Samples of raw cereals imported in Italy and of other foodstuffs that can be treated with bromine-containing fumigants were analysed for the total bromide content.
(4) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
(5) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
(6) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
(7) A comparison was made of the kinetics of the carboxylation reaction of bicarbonate-magnesium-activated ribulose biphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase purified from cold-hardened and unhardened winter rye (Secale cereale L. cv.
(8) Alkaline ribonuclease (pH optimum 7.6) was isolated from rye (Secale cereale L) germ cytosol and partially purified; the preparation was devoid of other nucleolytic activities.
(9) The data reported here indicates that Korean cereals harvested in 1984 are simultaneously contaminated with NIV, DON and ZEN, and the incidences and levels are similar to those observed in the cereals harvested in 1983.
(10) Although intestinal cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenase activity, as determined by benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase and 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase, was greatly reduced (65-90%) in animals maintained on a semipurified control diet compared with standard cereal-based chow, there were no differences observed in heme oxygenase activity between the two dietary treatment groups.
(11) Foods such as legumes appear to be digested less rapidly than many cereal foods although even amongst these large differences in rates of in vitro digestion exist.
(12) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
(13) The effect of chain length and unsaturation on the haemolytic properties of cereal resorcinolic lipids, (5-n-alk(en)ylresorcinols), was studied using isolated saturated, monoenoic and dienoic homologues.
(14) The completness of the lipids removal from the fish muscles and fish products was investigated by making extraction in a filtering separating funnel (FSF) formerly proposed for determining lipids in oil-bearing seeds and cereals.
(15) Canned spaghetti and meat balls, the TV dinner, canned chicken-and-vegetable baby food, and food bars had PER values between 91 and 73 per cent of that of casein, while PER values for ground beef and high-protein cereal were significantly higher than casein.
(16) Of 1353 cereal samples, 11.7% contained the mycotoxin; of 1372 samples of feed, 1.5%; of 368 bread samples, 17.2%; of 215 flour samples, 22.3%; of 894 porcine serum samples, 37.4%; and of 1065 human serum samples, 7.2%.
(17) "I'd just ask what type of breakfast cereal they like," he says.
(18) We face a number of technical challenges in reducing it further in our cereals.
(19) Two mixed-food breakfast meals composed predominantly of either red kidney beans or bran cereal were fed to six healthy young men.
(20) It contains the largest introns of all the cereal alpha-amylase-encoding genes examined to date.
Hordein
Definition:
(n.) A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hor 1 locus of barley encodes a group of seed storage polypeptides called C hordein.
(2) We have shown earlier that it is possible to obtain cross-reaction outside the cultivated barley, with monoclonal antibodies raised against hordeins from the barley cultivar Bomi.
(3) A tissue-specific differentiation of chromatin structure was found for the LHCP, hordein and 15-kDa protein genes.
(4) Electrophoretic comparison with glutelins extracted by acetic acid and with hordeins, all reduced and alkylated, discloses a great similitude between this fraction, the glutelins and some hordein fast components alpha, beta and gamma.
(5) Gliadin- and hordein-immunoadsorbent column experiments demonstrated that the prolamin reactivity originates from the same population of antibodies.
(6) For the ten cultivars examined, differences during germination were again seen in the rates of modification of the D hordeins.
(7) Thus, the improvement in lysine in the mutant is primarily due to reduced synthesis of the prolamine fraction and not due to an increase in lysine in the mutant hordein fraction.
(8) The possible assignment of the two classes of hybridizing fragments to the B1- and B3-hordein subgroups is discussed.
(9) Precipitin lines of partial identity with gliadin were observed against rye secalins and barley hordeins but not oat avenins or maize zeins.
(10) The analyzed sequence covers most of the B-hordein promoter and includes 10 CpGs from the promoter and 4 CpGs from the adjacent coding region.
(11) The similarities indicate a common evolutionary origin, while the distinction between B- and C-hordeins in the entire genus clearly shows that the divergence of their coding genes preceded the divergence of the Hordeum species.
(12) C hordein, a storage protein from barley grains, has an Mr of about 53,000, and consists predominantly of repeated octapeptides with a consensus sequence of Pro-Gln-Gln-Pro-Phe-Pro-Gln-Gln.
(13) However, significant correlations between the D hordein breakdown and final attenuation values were not obtained, so that we propose that there exists at best a loose correlation between the relative rate of proteolysis of these proteins and the malting quality character final attenuation.
(14) The promoter region has the following main features: one TATA box; three CATC boxes; an enhancer-like sequence, starting at nt position -282 from the first ATG codon, which is homologous to sequences appearing at similar positions in other endosperm genes; two versions of an 18-nt sequence that is more highly repeated in structural domains of several prolamin genes; two extensive regions close to the first ATG codon that are homologous to a sequence located much further upstream in the B-hordein promoter.
(15) The B-hordeins are the major group of prolamin storage proteins in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and they are encoded by a small multigene family that is expressed specifically in the developing endosperm.
(16) spectroscopy and computer prediction is used to show that C hordein has an unusual secondary structure with an absence of alpha-helix and beta-sheet, but the presence of regularly repeated beta-turns.
(17) Besides these similarities, differences between both cultivars were observed in the relative rates of D hordein degradation, as this rate was considerably higher in the cultivar with high malting quality.
(18) Moreover, when albumin and globulin proteins were used for evaluation in addition to the hordeins, all cultivars could be discriminated by IPG-DALT.
(19) This work presents new information on the structure and organization of B hordein genes in the Hor 2 locus of barley.
(20) In the second generation of transformed plants along with the change in starch and hordein synthesis a modification of the type of spikes was also revealed.