Quantifying genetic variability and genotype ranking for food quality attributes in white Guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata) using a multiple trait selection index [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionYield and food product quality are important attributes in the selection of yam (Dioscorea spp.) cultivars. Among yam-based food products, boiled yam and pounded yam are traditional dishes that hold cultural, nutritional, and sensory ...
Alice Adenike Olatunji +6 more
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Long-term supplementation with a combination of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate, arginine, and glutamine for pressure ulcer in sedentary older adults: a retrospective matched case-control study [PDF]
Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science, 2023 Background Growing evidence suggests that beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB), arginine (Arg), and glutamine (Gln) positively affect wound recovery. This study investigated the effects of long-term administration of HMB/Arg/Gln on pressure ulcer (PU ...
Igor Kisil, Yuri Gimelfarb
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Sex, gender roles and fearfulness in girl and boy students of Zabol town public schools [PDF]
مطالعات روانشناسی تربیتی, 2014 Research on gender differences in children’s fear has generally shown that girls are more fearful and experience more anxiety than boys. A common hypothesis offered for this finding is that gender role orientations or expectations may be operating ...
Mahnaz Aliakbari Dehkordi +2 more
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Assessment of The Technical Efficiency and Cost and Returns on Seed Yam Farms in North-Central
International Journal on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, 2023 Achieving maximum output with a minimum level of resources has been a major discourse in recent years mostly in Nigeria’s seed yam production. Thus, the study evaluated the technical efficiency of the CAY- and NRCRI - seed yam farm and the costs and ...
Morolake Bolaji +2 more
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Farmers’ perspective toward a demand led yam breeding in Nigeria
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 This study seeks to increase the efficiency of yam breeding practice using farmers’ insight at the trait and socioeconomic levels. A three-staged multisampling procedure was employed and 792 yam farmers from four geopolitical zones, comprising 10 states ...
Confidence Kalu +6 more
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Annals of Agricultural Sciences, 2022 Yam production along the West African yam belt is challenged with deteriorating soil fertility and unavailability of stakes, resulting in decreased yam productivity, and farmers' livelihood.
Eric Owusu Danquah +10 more
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Ecological and Edaphic Drivers of Yam Production in West Africa
Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2021 Yam is an important food and cash crop in West Africa (the yam belt) whose production is traditionally nonsedentary due to its substantial nutrient demand.
Dora Neina
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Heliyon, 2022 Yam and its products can be modified during processing to reduce losses and ensure food security in the developing world. Xanthan gum (XG) and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) were added at different concentrations to yam balls and their effect on the ...
Ebenezer Asiamah +6 more
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Chlorophyll, Proximate and Mineral Composition of Yam Leaves Grown under Aeroponics and Field Systems [PDF]
Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry, 2020 The chlorophyll, proximate and mineral compositions of four elite yam varieties grown under aeroponic and field systems were investigated. The yam varieties used were TDa 98/01176, TDr 95/18544, TDr 95/19177 and TDr 95/19158.
Akachukwu D. +6 more
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Domestic Cooking Affects the Prebiotic Performances of Chinese Yam
Foods, 2022 The appropriate domestic cooking methods can retain and protect the biological properties of foods well. Thus, the objective of this study was to unravel the effect of different cooking methods on the microbiota modulatory properties of yam and their non-
Lingxiao Gong +5 more
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