• 제목/요약/키워드: Zea mays L.

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Silage Fermentative Quality and Characteristics of Anthocyanin Stability in Anthocyanin-rich Corn (Zea mays L.)

  • Hosoda, Kenji;Eruden, Bayaru;Matsuyama, Hiroki;Shioya, Shigeru
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • 제22권4호
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    • pp.528-533
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    • 2009
  • The fermentative quality and quantitative change in anthocyanin of anthocyanin-rich corn (Zea mays L.) during storage and in vitro ruminal fermentation were studied. The anthocyanin-rich corn silages in bag silo, drum silo and round bale had good fermentative qualities, such as low pH (5% DM) and butyric acid-free, and its quality was maintained for more than 370 d. The amount of anthocyanin in the anthocyanin-rich corn decreased after ensiling by about 45% (from 3.34 to 1.88 mg/g DM), but stayed constant after day 60. The in vitro incubation of the anthocyanin-rich corn with ruminal fluid revealed little degradation of anthocyanin. These results indicate that the anthocyanin had no negative effect on silage fermentation, and the anthocyanin-rich corn silage is utilizable for practical use as a feedstuff. Our results also demonstrate alteration of the anthocyanin content during storage, and show that anthocyanin-rich corn is a suitable antioxidant source for ruminants because of the high stability of the anthocyanin in ruminal fluid.

Characterization of Carotenoid Biosynthetic Pathway Using Viviparous Mutant Embryos in Maize ( Zea mays L. )

  • Lee, Byung-Moo
    • Plant Resources
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    • 제1권1호
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 1998
  • Carotenoid compounds in embryos of wild-type(WT) and viviparous mutants of maize(Zea mays L.) were analyzed using high performance liquid ehromatography (HPLC) with a photodiode array detector. Zeaxanthin accumulates in WT embryos as the major carotenoid. Phytoene accumulates in vp2 and vp5. Phytofluene in w3 and ${\xi}$-carotene in the vp9 mutant embryos. This indicates that the vp2 and vp5 mutants impair phytoene desaturase from 15-cis-phytoene to 15-cis-phytofluene. The w3 mutant has neither an isomerase from 15-cis-phytofluene to all-trans-phytofuene nor phytofluene desaturase from phytofluene to ${\xi}$-carotene. The vp9 mutant does not have the ${\xi}$-carotene desaturase from ${\xi}$-carotene to lycopene. Our analysis shows that the terminal carotenoid. ${\gamma}$-carotene(${\beta},{\Psi}$-carotene), accumulates in the vp7 mutant embryos. The ${\varepsilon}$-carotene(${\varepsilon},{\varepsilon}$-carotene), a product of ${\delta}$-carotene(${\varepsilon},{\Psi}$-carotene) in some plants, however, has not been found in maize embryos. The vp7 mutant impairs a cyclization step from ${\gamma}$-carotene to both ${\beta}$-carotene and ${\alpha}$-carotene. We suggest that monocyclic ${\gamma}$-carotene is the sole precursor of both bicyclic ${\beta}$-carotene(${\beta},{\beta}$-carotene) and ${\alpha}$-carotene(${\beta},{\varepsilon}$-carotene) in maize.

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Radical Scavenging Activity and Cytotoxicity of Maysin(C-glycosylflavone) isolated from Silks of Zea mays L.

  • Kim, Sun-Lim;Snook, Maurice-E;Lee, Jong-Ock
    • 한국작물학회지
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    • 제48권5호
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    • pp.392-396
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    • 2003
  • Maysin, a C-glycosylflavone, was isolated from the silks of maize, Zea mays L. The ESI mass spectrum indicates that molecular weight of maysin is $577\textrm{M}^+$m/z, and the ether-linked sugar is rhamnose, $431\textrm{M}^+$m/z (MW$^{+}$-146). The DPPH (1,1-Diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl) radical scavenging activity of maysin was higher than that of rutin. However, as compared with its aglycon luteolin, maysin showed the relatively moderate DPPH scavenging activity mainly due to the glycosylation of two sugars moieties, keto-fucose and rhamnose. In the in vitro cytotoxicity test against the five human tumor cell lines such as lung (A549), ovarian (SK-OV-3), melanoma (SK-MEL-2), central nerve system (XF-489), and colon (HCT-15), maysin exhibited the relatively weaker activities than cisplatin. The $\textrm{ED}_{50}$ values of maysin were 62.24, 43.18, 16.83, 37.22, and 32.09/$m\ell$, respectively. Result suggests that maysin is a potential cytotoxicity compound, particularly for human colon, central nerve system, and melanoma tumors.s.

Distinctive response of maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes in vitro with the acceleration of phytohormones

  • Muppala, Sridevi;Gudlavalleti, Pavan Kumar;Pagidoju, Sreenu;Malireddy, Kodandarami Reddy;Puligandla, Sateesh Kumar;Dasari, Premalatha
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • 제47권1호
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    • pp.26-39
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    • 2020
  • In maize, immature embryos (IEs) are highly regenerative explants most suitable for producing high frequencies of plantlet regeneration in vitro. Apart from media, explants, and hormones, genotypic variation also influences in vitro characters to a great extent. In the present study, IEs were used to study the distinctive effect of variation of size/stage and hormones in different genotypes on five in vitro characters viz., frequency of callus induction, growth rate of total callus, frequency of E. callus induction, and volume and number of regenerated plantlets. LS medium with different concentrations of 2,4-D (0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 4.0 and 5.0 mg/L) were used to study the former four in vitro characters, and medium with 6-benzylaminopurine and kinetin (0.5 mg/L, each) was used for plantlet regeneration. IEs of 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 mm in size were isolated from four inbred lines viz., NM74C, NM81A, NM5883 and NM5884. Two-way ANOVA revealed that explant size and genotypes, as well as hormonal concentrations showed significant effects on in vitro characters. Two millimeter IEs were found to be suitable for in vitro cultures. LS medium with 1.5 mg/L 2,4-D and LS with BAP and Kn (0.5 mg/L, each) were found to be the best hormonal concentrations for callus induction, maintenance, and regeneration, respectively. Among the four genotypes, NM81A and NM5883 yielded more non-embryogenic and Type I E. calli. In contrast, NM74C and NM5884 yielded more highly regenerative Type II calli. Inbred line NM5884 was found to be the best among these four genotypes.

유채의 녹비 환원에 의한 질소무기화 및 옥수수의 질소 흡수 (Incorporation of Winter Rapeseed (Brassica napus) as Green Manure on Mineralization and Uptake of Nitrogen to Succeeding Corn (Zea mays L.))

  • 최봉수;홍기찬;성좌경;남재작;임정은;이현용;양재의;옥용식
    • 한국유기농업학회지
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    • 제17권3호
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    • pp.381-391
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    • 2009
  • 녹비 작물의 이용은 화학비료의 사용을 대체하고 물질순환에 의한 안전한 농작물 생산을 가능하게 할 수 있다. 이에 본 연구는 바이오디젤 생산의 원료로 이용되는 유채 종자의 유채의 녹비 환원에 의한 질소무기화 및 옥수수의 질소 흡수 389 수확 후 잔유물의 녹비 이용 가능성을 평가하였다. 유채 수확 후 잔류물의 질소함량은 0.53%로 낮았으며 탄질율은 63으로 나타났다. 유채 잔유물의 부숙기간 없이 환원 직후 파종한 처리구는 옥수수의 질소 흡수를 지연시켰으며, 생육에서도 30일간 부숙기간을 설정한 처리구의 옥수수보다 억제되어 유채 잔유물의 녹비 환원 직후 후작물의 파종은 주의해야 할 것으로 판단되었다. 유채 잔유물의 녹비 환원 90일 후 질소무기화는 암모늄태 질소(24.2mg/kg)보다 질산태 질소(58.4mg/kg)에서 높았으며, 방출된 무기태 질소에 대한 옥수수의 흡수 및 이용량은 부숙기간 없이 환원 직후 파종한 처리구와 30일간 부숙기간을 설정한 처리구에서 각각 86%와 88%로 나타났다.

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