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Physical and chemical properties, antioxidant characteristics, and nutritional adequacy of Sorrel (Rumex vesicarius): A traditional food in Egyptian culture

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101790

Abdel-Aziz R.E. El-Hadary , Ayat M.A. Abulmakarm

The sorrel meal is a traditional food in Egyptian culture which is consumed on winter occasions. This investigation aimed to study the chemical and physical properties, vitamin contents, antioxidant profile, and nutritional adequacy of both sorrel leaves and sorrel green soup. Chemical composition, acidity, colour, content of vitamin B complex and phenols components by HPLC, content of vitamin A, C, and E, antioxidant profile, and nutritional adequacy were estimated. The carbohydrates were the highest ingredient of the chemical composition of sorrel leaves followed by the content of moisture (66.79 ± 1.05 and 18.6 ± 0.92 g 100 g⁻¹; respectively), on the contrary, the content of moisture was the highest value in the sorrel green soups followed by the content of crude carbohydrates (79.1 ± 1.23 and 14.55 ± 0.67 g 100g-1; respectively) (p < 0.05), potassium registered the highest value of mineral contents, and vitamin C was the highest in both sorrel leaves and sorrel green soup (p < 0.05). Additionally, vitamin B9 registered the highest value in both young leaves of sorrel and the sorrel green soups (110.35 ± 1.5 and 75.66 ± 1.35 μg g⁻¹; respectively) (p < 0.05), while vitamin B1 registered the lowest concentration (5.12 ± 0.31 and 2.22 ± 0.81 μg g⁻¹ of the young leaves of sorrel and the sorrel green soups; respectively) (p < 0.05). The results of chemical and physical properties, vitamins contents, and antioxidant profile of both sorrel leaves and meal proved that the sorrel plant is a good source of non-nutrient components, have enough contents of macro nutrient ingredients, and promising plant that have the different components of bioactive compounds.

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Predicting agricultural drought in central Europe by using machine learning algorithms

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101783

Endre Harsányi

Understanding the evolution, mechanisms, and trajectories of agricultural drought is an essential strategy for achieving sustainable crop production. Thus, this research evaluates the patterns and magnitude of agriculture droughts using Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) from 1926 to 2020 in eastern Hungary, and assess the performance of six machine learning models (Random Forest (RF), Extra Trees (ET), Gradient Boosting (GB), Extreme Gradient Boost (XGB), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Multi-Layer Perceptron (ANN-MLP)) in predicting agriculture droughts. Results showed a decreasing trend of monthly rainfall and decreasing trend of SPEI monthly values indicating more events in the study area. Furthermore, frequency and intensity analysis revealed a total of 18 % of recorded events were classified as SPEI-3 moderate to extreme drought events (in months) with the highest drought intensity (D1 = −2.43) in January 2007. Overall, 16 years were identified as droughts by SPEI-3 to SPEI-12 in the 1st three decades (1926–1956), 12 drought years from 1957 to 1986 and 21 drought years from 1987 to 2020. Among the six machine learning algorithms, the RF model performed the best in the training phase, with the highest R² = 0.75, lowest RMSE = 0.49, and MAE = 0.4. Like the training stage, RF outperformed among other algorithms achieving the highest accuracy. Overall, the ML models can be ranked as RF > XGB > ETR > GBR > ANN-MLP > SVM. The findings of this research promote RF as a reliable algorithm for predicting SPEI droughts.

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Effects of ILeVO and Gaucho seed coatings on the suppression of cereal cyst nematode Heterodera filipjevi in wheat

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101781

Haohao Ren , Juan Ma , Rongchao Li , Qian Zheng , Xiaokai Liu , Yang Zhou , Haoguang Meng , Jiangkuan Cui

Heterodera filipjevi is one of the most important pathogenic nematodes affecting wheat production and its economic returns. Seed coating is the most convenient and effective method for preventing and controlling cereal cyst nematodes in China. From 2018 to 2019, the highest control effect of ILeVO (120 mL/100 kg) for H. filipjevi reached 21.27 %. Compared with that of the control plants (306.9 g/m²), treatment with 120 mL/100 kg of ILeVO increased the yield (420.13 g/m²) by 36.90 %. Subsequent experiments demonstrated that ILeVO combined with Gaucho exerted a greater effect on H. filipjevi suppression than did ILeVO alone. From 2019 to 2020 and 2020–2021, H. filipjevi suppression by ILeVO (80 mL/100 kg) + Gaucho reached 29.65 % and 30.88 %, respectively. Moreover, the combination of ILeVO and Gaucho enhanced the agronomic characteristics of wheat and provided a substantial yield increase. Under the Gaucho treatment, the wheat yields from 2019 to 2020 and 2020–2021 were 448.00 and 425.33 g/m², respectively, whereas those under the treatment with 80 mL/100 kg of ILeVO + Gaucho were 498.33 and 495.00 g/m², respectively, increasing by 11.24 % and 16.38 %, respectively. The combination of ILeVO and Gaucho reduced ILeVO use, effectively suppressed H. filipjevi and increased the wheat yield, offering a novel approach for H. filipjevi prevention and control.

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Status and drivers of crop diversification in the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Across borders and communities

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101776

Ravi Nandi , Tamara Jackson , Arifa Jannat , Arunava Ghosh , Biplab Mitra , Kali Ratan Chakma , Pragya Timsina , Anjana Chaudhary , Wakilur Rahman , Emma Karki , Gunjan Rana , Timothy J. Krupnik , Pashupati Pokhrel

Crop diversification is indispensable for the development of Agriculture in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. Given policy imperatives encouraging crop diversification, significant evidence, and knowledge gaps remain, with a lack of integrative studies that quantitatively and qualitatively assess the diverse and intricate dimensions of crop diversification within the broader context of the EGP. The study assesses the spatiotemporal patterns of crop diversification, aiming to elucidate the nuanced challenges associated with transitioning to more diversified cropping systems and identifying country-specific determinants within the EGP. Uses cross-sectional data from 1397 farm households across 72 communities in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. Combine descriptive and quantitative analysis to explore seasonal and regional aspects of crop diversification. Besides, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) to assess current crop diversification levels. A Tobit Regression Model is used to identify the country-specific determinants of crop diversification. Results revealed significant variation in crop diversification across the EGP, with notable seasonal and regional differences. Family size influences diversification in all three countries, while factors such as joint decision-making with a spouse, solar-powered irrigation, and orchard ownership vary regionally. Rice remains dominant during the summer monsoon (kharif) season, but there is a shift towards greater diversification in the winter (rabi) season, suggesting potential for further diversification. This study provides a comprehensive overview of diversification patterns and their drivers in the EGP, capturing broad trends and local nuances. It offers valuable baseline information for promoting crop diversification and underscores the need for tailored approaches to enhance sustainability in this poverty-dense and agriculturally dependent region.

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Evaluation of advanced extraction techniques to obtain bioactive enriched extracts from garlic (Allium sativum L.) by-products

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101782

Ignacio Jiménez-Amezcua , Ana Cristina Soria , Marina Díez-Municio , María Luz Sanz , Ana Isabel Ruiz-Matute

Garlic (Allium sativum L.) residues generated during its production are very abundant and their disposal can have a negative impact on the environment, in addition to entailing high management costs for producers. On the other hand, the numerous health benefits of garlic associated to its composition in organosulfur compounds (OSC), bioactive carbohydrates (BCH) and free amino acids (AA), among others, could be also attributed to these discarded residues. Therefore, there is great interest in the development of new, efficient, fast and environmentally friendly extraction methodologies of bioactive compounds for the revalorization of these by-products.

Thus, in this work, new ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) and pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) methodologies were optimized using experimental designs to efficiently obtain multifunctional extracts from different garlic by-products. Stems were selected as the most promising bioactive source for their highest content of bioactive compounds. Concentration of bioactives extracted by these techniques were compared with those achieved by conventional solid liquid extraction (SLE). Among them, the optimized UAE methodology (40 °C, 60 min and 77 mg mL⁻¹) was selected as optimal and applied to garlic stems of different ecotypes and stages of plant growth, obtaining high concentrations of OSC (e.g. S-allyl-L-cysteine, S-1-propenyl-L-cysteine and S-allyl-mercaptocysteine), BCH (myo-inositol, neokestose, 1-kestose, nystose and neonystose) and free AA (glutamine, lysine, phenylalanine, leucine, isoleucine, methionine, valine and threonine). Thus, UAE extracts of garlic stems are therefore proposed as a very interesting source of bioactive compounds to be used as food ingredients and as a way for revalorization of garlic by-products.

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A comparison of low-fat mozzarella cheese with basil seed and taro root mucilage as natural fat replacers through chemical and rheological analysis

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101766

Aqsa Akhtar , Tetsuya Araki , Tatsuki Kamata , Daisuke Nei , Nauman Khalid

Mozzarella cheese (MC) is a widely consumed soft, fermented, dense proteinous cheese with unique viscoelastic behavior. MC behaves like a soft solid at ambient temperature and undergoes melt as temperature increases to 70 °C, aided by fats in cheese. However, reducing dairy fats in MC tends to affect its chemical, texture, and viscoelastic properties by making it rubbery. This study was planned to evaluate and compare the effect of basil seed mucilage (BSM) and taro roots mucilage (TRM) as a fat replacer to improve the stretching and viscoelastic attributes of low-fat mozzarella cheese (LFMC). BSM and TRM were added at concentrations of 1 %, 2.5 %, and 5 % (v/v) during the formulation of LFMC samples. The results of the physicochemical analysis presented a significant difference in fat content (p < 0.05) and the lowest value reported for negative control (T∗) and LFMC samples with 1 % BSM (BT₁) of 14.32 % and 14.82 %, respectively. In texture, among all observed parameters, the most prominent was hardness, and out of all the samples, T_o exhibited the highest value (9.93 × 10⁴ N/m²), followed by 8.69 × 10⁴ N/m², 8.65 × 10⁴ N/m², 6.73 × 10⁴ N/m² for BT₁, BT_2, and TT₃, respectively. Based on the results, the MC samples, including T_o, BT₃, and TT₃, required a low shear stress of 1000 Pa to deform at 70 °C compared to other samples. This shows that a high concentration of plant mucilage of 5 %, as in BT₃ and TT₃, presents the same cohesiveness as the T_o. The results of the rheological analysis showed that LFMC with BSM were less cohesive, compact, and experienced low-stress deformation. On melting at 70 °C, the viscoelastic attribute among all LFMC with mucilage was dominant as G″ > G′ in LFMC indicated softer liquid-like properties. Overall, the results concluded that preserving the appropriate casein-to-fat ratio using up to 2.5 % (v/v) BSM followed by 2.5 % (v/v) TRM can better preserve the rheological characteristics of LFMC.

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Applications of citrus peels valorisation in circular bioeconomy 柑橘皮在循环生物经济中的应用

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101780

Harsh Kumar , Shivani Guleria , Neetika Kimta , Eugenie Nepovimova , Daljeet Singh Dhanjal , Nidhi Sethi , Tejas Suthar , Ayaz Mukarram Shaikh , Béla Kovács Bela , Endre Harsányi

Plant-derived biomass, in particular, offers a raw material that is potentially cost effective in producing affordable food, energy, feed, sanitation, and clean drinking water. Citrus fruits have been extensively documented for their beneficial health effects and significant contribution to agricultural waste worldwide as fruit peels, which are often discarded and hence remain unexploited. Polyphenols found in citrus peels have health-promoting benefits and serve as catalysts/resources for producing valuable ingredients. The current review highlights the exploitation of citrus peels in the production of biofuels, essential oils, bio-based nanomaterials, and the enrichment of functional foods, thus highlighting their nutritional and health benefits. Conclusively, the review comprehensively aligns with sustainable practices in the agro-industrial sector, alongside the circular bioeconomy concept.

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Households’ food consumption status and asset accumulation in the context of export market orientation: A case of avocado producers in Ethiopia

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101774

Mengistie Mossie , Tigist Genanew , Asres Elias , Tadsa Chanie

This study examined the impact of export market participation on households' food consumption status and asset accumulation in northwestern Ethiopia. It draws on cross-sectional data from 297 randomly selected small-scale avocado producers. To strengthen the reliability of the findings, the study utilized a robust regression model, mitigating potential bias from self-selection. The descriptive results show that while staple cereals dominate household diets, accounting for 80 % of food consumption, nutrient-dense foods such as eggs, meat, and fish remain under-consumed. The study results reveal that export market participation had not brought any significant improvements to the households’ asset accumulation, while the calorie consumption status experienced positive and statistically significant improvements but relatively small impact. The findings suggest that targeted awareness creation programs, technical support, and financial assistance are crucial to enhancing avocado farmers' access to export markets, which could ultimately lead to better household nutrition and asset accumulation status.

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Exploring Pistacia vera pollination: Phenological and aerobiological insights into the main commercial varieties

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101777

Luis Burgos -Miranda , Jose Oteros , Rocío López- Orozco , Carmen García-Llamas , Carmen Galán , Sergio Castro-Garcia , Herminia García-Mozo

The pistachio tree (Pistacia vera L.) is a dioecious anemophilous crop with a high economic importance. Nevertheless, it is scarce knowledge about floral phenology and pollen aerobiology of their varieties. Pistachio crop surface is sharply increasing in the Mediterranean basin, due to it is highly adaptable to abiotic stresses. This favors a more sustainable and biodiverse agriculture in the dry areas. The main problem that pistachio crop is facing today are phenological reproductive asynchronies between male and female trees, increased by climate change. The present work analyses phenological and pollen aerobiological dynamic of 23 varieties (9 males and 14 females) for 2019 to 2023 in an orchard located at Córdoba (South Spain). Results showed a staggered flowering timeline firstly in males, being the earlier male varieties, Azkar Randy, C-special, and IA13, flowering in early March, while later males were IA3 and Nazar flowering up to 2 weeks after. The aerobiological pollen curve reflected this gradual although showing time differences between years. The most disturbing results correspond to female cultivars flowering later than males, with a short matching period in cases. Statistics identified the different degrees of reproductive synchronization between sexes, revealing significant variations depending on varieties' couples. The highest phenological matching was for Randy with Golden-Hill (80 %), Avdat with IA13 and IA3 (75 %) and IA3 with Kastel (70 %). However, traditional couples like Peter and Kerman showed a lower coincidence (40 %). To note that only 16 of the 126 potential couples, presented a matching percentage ≥60 %, which is an acceptable minimum threshold to decide to plant together. The results of the study are essential for understanding the pistachio's flowering patterns, pollen aerobiology and potential couples' matching, helping companies and farmers for a better pistachio crop planning and management.

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Beyond phytic acid: Nutrigenetic and nutrigenomic insights into its hydrolysis, transport, and metabolism

IF 4.8 Q1 AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.jafr.2025.101758

Suyun Choi, Sangyong Choi

Phytic acid (inositol hexakisphosphate, IP6), often known as an antinutrient for its mineral-chelating properties, has emerged as a precursor to bioactive metabolites with significant health roles. Its hydrolysis, mediated by gut microbiota and host enzymes, generates lower inositol phosphates (IPs) and myo-inositol (MI), which are involved in gene regulation, signaling pathways, and metabolic processes. IP6 metabolism is highly variable among individuals, driven by differences in gut microbiota composition, genetic variability, and complex host-microbiome interactions. Microbial phytase activity varies with species diversity, contributing to the production of metabolites like short-chain fatty acids, which influence host health. Genetic variations in human phytase enzymes, nutrient transporters, and regulatory pathways further affect the metabolism of IP6 and its derivatives, shaping individual responses. These processes modulate immune function, cancer prevention, and other health-related pathways, but also underscore the duality of IP6, which offers antioxidant benefits and reduced glycation-linked diabetes complications while potentially chelating essential minerals like calcium, iron, and zinc. This review synthesizes the mechanisms of IP6 hydrolysis, absorption, and metabolism, integrating findings from nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, and microbiome research. It highlights the potential of precision nutrition strategies by addressing individual variability in IP6 and IPs metabolic responses. The complexity of IP6 metabolism presents challenges but offers opportunities for personalized dietary interventions tailored to genetic and microbial profiles.

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