hydroxycinnamic acid/zea mays

Hydroxycinnamic acids, including ferulic acid and p-coumaric acid, have been tied to multiple positive health and agronomic benefits. However, little work has been done to improve the concentration of hydroxycinnamic acids in maize. We evaluated a set of twelve commercially important maize (Zea mays

This work aimed to investigate the effect of selenium (Se) and irrigation on the grain yield, on the forms of Se, phenols, and carotenes, and on some antioxidant activities of maize ( Zea mays L.) grains. To reach this goal, a 2 year experiment was undertaken. Maize was fertigated with sodium

The hydroxycinnamic acids, p -coumaric acid ( p CA) and ferulic acid (FA), add diversity to the portfolio of products produced by grass-fed lignocellulosic biorefineries. The level of lignin-bound p CA in Zea mays was modified by alteration of PMT expression. The biomass was processed in a lab-scale

Primary and secondary metabolites of inorganic nitrogen metabolism were evaluated as inhibitors of nitrate reductase (EC 1.6.6.1) induction in green leaf tissue of corn seedlings. Nitrite, nitropropionic acid, ammonium ions, and amino acids were not effective as inhibitors of nitrate reductase

Due to their unique properties, copper-based nanopesticides are emerging in the market. Thus, understanding their effect on crop plants is very important. Metabolomics can capture a snapshot of cellular metabolic responses to a stressor. We selected maize and cucumber as model plants for exposure to

Beneficial effects on overall gut health by phenolic bioactives-rich foods are potentially due to their modulation of probiotic gut bacteria and antimicrobial activity against pathogenic bacteria. Based on this rationale, the effect of the free and bound phenolic fractions from a Peruvian purple

The endocrine-disrupting chemical 4-tert-octylphenol (OP) can mimic estrogen and testosterone hormones and threaten health; fertaric acid (FA) is a hydroxycinnamic acid found in grapefruit. This study aimed to investigate whether FA has a protective effect on 4-tert-octylphenol-related

The purpose of this study was to investigate how proliferation and apoptosis in human leukemia U937 cells are affected by four hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives (HCADs) in corn (Zea mays L.) bran: p-coumaric (CA), ferulic acids (FA), dicoumaroylputrescine (DCP), and diferuloylputrescine (DFP). Of the

Coumarin is the basic structure of numerous naturally occurring compounds with important and diverse physiological activities. More than a thousand coumarin derivatives have been described, varying from simple coumarins containing alkyl and hydroxyl side chains to complex coumarins with benzoyl,

Transgenic rice (Oryza sativa) plants were engineered to express a N-(hydroxycinnamoyl)transferase from pepper (Capsicum annuum), which has been shown to have hydroxycinnamoyl-CoA:tyramine N-(hydroxycinnamoyl)transferase activity, a key enzyme in the synthesis of hydroxycinnamic acid amides, under

European and Mediterranean corn borers are two of the most economically important insect pests of maize (Zea mays L.) in North America and southern Europe, respectively. Cell wall structure and composition were evaluated in pith and rind tissues of resistant and susceptible inbred lines as possible