Bioactive Metabolites of Dioscorea Species and Their Potential Applications in Functional Food Development [PDF]
FoodsDioscorea species, known as “Yams”, belong to the Dioscoreaceae family. Members of the Dioscoreaceae family are widely distributed across subtropical and tropical regions.
Pengcheng Wang +9 more
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Agritech, 2012 Wild yams (Dioscorea spp.) grow well in Indonesia known as Uwi, is the kind of tubers that grow in the community,but they have not been used optimally. Publicity about the characteristics and types has been limited.
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Variation in the Physical and Functional Properties of Yam (Dioscorea spp.) Flour Produced by Different Processing Techniques [PDF]
Foods, 2021 Research on the processing of yam (Dioscorea spp.) into flour is aimed at optimizing techniques to obtain a material with high physicochemical and functional properties. The present study investigates the effect of the processing techniques on the levels
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FATTY ACID COMPOSITION OF WILD YAM (Dioscorea spp.)
Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2013 Samples of wild yam tubers (Dioscorea alata, D. bulbifera var. vera, D. esculenta, D. oppositifolia var. dukhumensis, D.oppositifolia var. oppositifolia, D. pentaphylla var. pentaphylla, D. spicata, D. tomentosa and D.
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Morphological and molecular characterisation of Scutellonema species from yam (Dioscorea spp.) and a key to the species of the genus [PDF]
, 2017 The yam nematode, Scutellonema bradys, is a major threat to yam (Dioscorea spp.) production across yam-growing regions. In West Africa, this species cohabits with many morphologically similar congeners and, consequently, its accurate diagnosis is ...
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Amino acid composition of wild yam (Dioscorea spp.) [PDF]
Food Research, 2019 Tubers of wild yam (Dioscorea alata, D. bulbifera var. vera, D. esculenta, D. oppositifolia var. oppositifolia, D. oppositifolia var. dukhumensis, D. pentaphylla var. pentaphylla, D. spicata, D. tomentosa and D. wallichi) were analyzed for its amino acids composition.
Doss, A. , Tresina, P.S. , Mohan, V.R.
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Do yams (Dioscorea spp.) host endogenous viral sequences ? [PDF]
, 2011 Yams (Dioscoreae sp) are important food commodities in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific where they play a key role in food security. Yams are vegetatively propagated crops.
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Potentials of purified tyrosinase from yam (Dioscorea spp) as a biocatalyst in the synthesis of cross-linked protein networks. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Ilesanmi OS, Adedugbe OF, Adewale IO.
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Propagação vegetativa de inhame (Dioscorea spp.) por estaquia
Ciência Agrícola, 2013 O presente trabalho teve o objetivo de estabelecer uma forma alternativa de propagação de inhame através de enraizamento de estacas de ramos vegetativos.
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Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors. [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2021 Worojie TB, Asfaw BT, Mengesha WA.
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