Daniel J. Fairbanks

TL;DR: Amaranth (Amaranthus hypochondriacus L.) is an emerging pseudocereal native to the New World that has garnered increased attention in recent years because of its nutritional quality, in particular its seed protein and more specifically its high levels of the essential amino acid lysine.

TL;DR: Garden orach and quinoa seed proteins contained higher lysine contents compared with cereals and Amino acid profiles showed a balanced content of essential amino acids for all three samples when compared with reference patterns from the World Health Organization.

TL;DR: This report represents the first molecular characterization of salt-tolerance genes in a halophytic species in the Amaranthaceae as well as the first comparative analysis of coding and non-coding DNA sequences of the two homoeologous genomes of C. quinoa, including full-length cDNA sequences, genomic sequences, relative expression levels, and a phylogenetic analysis of SOS1 genes from 13 plant taxa.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that quantifiable measures of identity discrimination and biogeographic background can be obtained from detecting genetically variant peptides in hair shaft protein, including hair from bioarchaeological contexts.