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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a 5-point hedonic scale to assess puto seko and panganan with 100% arrowroot starch and found that the results showed 6.16% moisture, 15.95% fat, 1.26% protein, 0.74% ash and 75.39% carbohydrates.
Abstract: Puto seko and panganan are two Filipino rice and wheat flour-based delicacies. Modified recipes were used as treatments in making these products using 50%, 75% and 100% arrowroot starch (AS). The control used was made from 100% all-purpose flour (APF) for puto seko and 100% rice flour (RF) for panganan. Twenty-five panelists were used for the sensory attributes assessment of the products using a 5-point hedonic scale for colour, aroma/flavour, texture or mouthfeel, taste and general acceptability. The most acceptable treatments were subjected to proximate analyses. The sensory evaluations of puto seko and panganan with 100% arrowroot starch have more acceptable attributes than the control at (p<0.05). Proximate analysis of puto seko with 100% arrowroot starch showed 6.16% moisture, 15.95% fat, 1.26% protein, 0.74% ash, 0.50% fiber and 75.39% carbohydrates; while the panganan made has 9.93% moisture, 9.53% fat, 2.35% protein, 0.63% ash, 0.67% fiber and 76.89% carbohydrates. Arrowroot starch can be used in making these two Filipino delicacies with better sensory attributes than the original products made from all-purpose flour and rice flour.
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TL;DR: A new species of Maranta (Marantaceae) from the Brazilian Amazon with close affinities with M. linearis is described and illustrated.
Abstract: A new species of Maranta (Marantaceae) from the Brazilian Amazon is described and illustrated. This species belongs to Maranta subg. Maranta and has close affinities with M. linearis, from which it differs in its caulescent habit, absent petiole, pulvinus with deciduous tufts of erect trichomes on the adaxial side, very long inflorescence with many florescences, and longitudinally ridged ovary and capsule.
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TL;DR: Red-veined prayer plant or red maranta, indigenous to Brazil, is a new host for Sugarcane mosaic virus, but it does not appear that Maranta will become a significant new reservoir of this virus for sugarcane or corn growers.
Abstract: Prayer plants (Maranta spp.), which are indigenous to Brazil, are commercially produced in nurseries mainly to be sold as potted houseplants. However, in frost-free areas, they are also used as a g...
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TL;DR: The results indicated that the primers selected for the present study will be useful for future genetic diversity studies and would provide breeders with a genetic base for selection of diverse parents for crop improvement programmes in arrowroot.
Abstract: Arrowroot ( Maranta arundinacea . L.) is an underutilized tuber crop having great potential to be developed as a carbohydrate source and functional food. Molecular markers have proved to be valuable tools in the characterization and evaluation of genetic diversity within and between species and populations. ISSR markers provide more sophisticated analysis of genetic diversity, cultivar identification, population genetic structure and other events of evolutionary biology processes. The present work is aimed at the molecular characterization of the seven arrowroot ( Maranta arundinacae L.) accessions maintained at ICAR-Central Tuber Crops Research Institute field genebank using 12 ISSR primers and to estimate the extent of diversity using the similarity index. DNA isolation was done using DNeasy ® Plant Mini Kit method. Out of the 13 ISSR markers screened, 12 markers gave polymorphic bands in the accessions screened. The 12 ISSR markers produced a total of 124 bands across the seven samples of which 66 were polymorphic. The phylogenetic tree generated using UPGMA cluster analysis revealed that diversity exists in M . Arundinacea unlike previously reported . The accessions formed two major clusters with two outliers in the grouping. The Cluster 1 consisted of two accessions i.e. Acc. 1 (M1) and Acc. 6 (M6) while Cluster 2 consisted of 3 accessions viz. Acc. 2, 4 and 3 (M2, M4 and M3). The two outliers that got separated were accessions 5 and 7 (M5 and M7). No duplicates were identified in the present study. The results indicated that the primers selected for the present study will be useful for future genetic diversity studies and would provide breeders with a genetic base for selection of diverse parents for crop improvement programmes in arrowroot.
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TL;DR: A new species from Mato Grosso, M. rugosa is described and illustrated, somewhat similar to M. parvifolia Petersen with which it is compared.
Abstract: J. M. A. Braga (jmabraga@jbrj.gov.br), Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botaˆnico do Rio de Janeiro. Rua Pacheco Lea˜o, 915. 22460-030, Rio deJaneiro, RJ, Brasil. S. Vieira, Jardim Botaˆnico Plantarum. Av. Brasil 2000, Distrito Industrial II. 13460-000, Nova Odessa, SP, Brasil.Maranta is a neotropical genus usually found in moist and shaded habitats in pluvial to semideciduous forests andCerrado, with diversity center in central Brazil. A new species from Mato Grosso, M. rugosa J. M. A. Braga & S. Vieira, isdescribed and illustrated. The new species is somewhat similar to M. parvifolia Petersen with which it is compared.
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