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Characterization of yam-growing households in the project areas of Nigeria [PDF]

, 2017
The Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA) project was initiated to assess and understand the yam-based systems in order to identify the opportunities of interventions that could potentially help to increase productivity in
Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Alene, A., Asiedu, Robert, Manyong, Victor M., Mignouna, Djana B.   +4 more
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Yam

, 2022
Why we are facing malnutrition, infectious diseases and pandemics like COVID-19 ? We have advanced technologies to fight against diseases, disorders, pandemics, new lethal infectious diseases, and many other food & healthcare related problems. Even having such technologies as a panacea, most of the time, in most of the places of the world, we ...
BL Manjula, Kumar, Arvind, Jaydeep K Sahu, S Samilita Dash, Sanjeet Kumar   +4 more
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Effects of Different Storage Periods on the Shelf-life Quality of Fresh-cut Vegetable Yam and Iron Stick Yam

Shipin gongye ke-ji, 2023
In this study, the effects of storage at 4 ℃ for 0, 30 and 60 d on the phenolic content and browning key enzyme activities of fresh-cut yam during shelf life were investigated using 'Changshan fine hair yam' vegetable yam and 'Henan Wenxian' iron stick ...
Tian TIAN, Yaqi ZHAO, Qing WANG, Zhanjun QIN, Yuan PAN, Wenlin SHI, Jinhua ZUO, Shuzhi YUAN, Xiaozhen YUE, Bihong FENG   +9 more
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Retention of iron and zinc in yam flour and boiled yam processed from white yam (D. rotundata) varieties [PDF]

, 2017
Open Access JournalThis study investigated the impact of processing on retention of iron and zinc in D. rotundata. Fresh tubers were processed into boiled yam and yam flour and analyzed for zinc, iron, and physicochemical properties.
Alamu, E.O., Asiedu, Robert, Faustina, Dufie W.M., Maziya-Dixon, B.B.   +3 more
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Colchicine-induced variations in survival rate and morphological characteristics of water yam (Dioscorea alata) [PDF]

Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo, 2010
The effects of 0.2% aqueous solution of colchicine on the survival rate and morphological features of five accessions of Dioscorea alata were investigated.
Ajayi Abiola T., Adesoye Adenubi I., Asiedu Robert, Sartie Alieu   +3 more
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Association of Postoperative Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) and Monocyte Lymphocyte Ratio (MLR) with the Presence of Osteoporosis in Japanese Patients after Hip Fracture Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Journal of Osteoporosis, 2021
Background. The diagnosis of osteoporosis is based on bone mineral density measurements expressed as a percentage of the young adult mean (YAM) in Japan.
Hirofumi Bekki, Takeshi Arizono, Daiki Hama, Akihiko Inokuchi, Takahiro Hamada, Ryuta Imamura   +5 more
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Metabolome Profiling of Eight Chinese Yam (Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.) Varieties Reveals Metabolite Diversity and Variety Specific Uses

Life, 2021
The Chinese yam (Dioscorea polystachya Turcz.) is an underutilized orphan tuber crop. However, in China it has been used in traditional medicine and food for centuries due to the presence of high starch, protein, fiber, and biologically active compounds.
Xiaoxuan Zeng, Dahui Liu, Luqi Huang
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Luminous Supernovae [PDF]

, 2012
Supernovae (SNe), the luminous explosions of stars, were observed since antiquity, with typical peak luminosity not exceeding 1.2x10^{43} erg/s (absolute magnitude >-19.5 mag).
A. Gal-Yam, Filippenko, Gal-Yam, Gal-Yam, Hamuy, Howell, Perets, Quimby, Woosley   +8 more
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Development and performance evaluation of an effective dryer for poundo yam flour processing plant

Cogent Engineering, 2017
The process of making pounded yam, from yam, Dioscorea spp., which is mostly consumed by people of sub-Sahara region as source of carbohydrate is energy consuming, therefore, the pounded yam flour, commonly called poundo yam, through which pounded yam is
S.P. Ayodeji, T.A. Ajamu, B.O. Akinnuli, O.A. Aderoba   +3 more
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Characterization of the techno-functional properties of starch from Purple yam (Dioscorea alata), Hawthorn yam (Dioscorea rotundata) and Diamante 22-type yam

Dyna, 2018
This study is aimed at evaluating the techno-functional properties of starches from several yam species (Purple yam, Hawthorn yam and Diamante 22-type yam).
Rodrigo Daniel Salgado-Ordosgoitia, Jhonatan Andrés Rodríguez-Manrique, Carlos Segundo Cohen-Manrique, Gean Pablo Mendoza-Ortega   +3 more
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