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Fall 2023

K C, Upama

Globally, 25% of the terrestrial surface is covered by grasslands, 40% of which is used for grazing livestock and is estimated to hold 30% of global soil carbon. Native grasslands in the Canadian prairie cover 12 million hectares and are used extensively for grazing cattle. Livestock grazing...

Fall 2023

McDonald, Kallum

Canola (Brassica napus L.) is the major oilseed crop in Canada. After oil extraction, the protein-rich seed meal (around 40% protein) serves as a nutritious feedstock for animals and the protein fraction has potential for human consumption. However, excess fiber in the seed meal (about 33%) can...

Fall 2023

Liu, Hui

Abstract Clubroot, caused by the obligate parasite Plasmodiophora brassicae, is one of the most damaging diseases of the Brassicaceae. Glucosinolates (GSLs) are a group of defense-related secondary metabolites in cruciferous plants that have been associated with clubroot disease. The breakdown of...

Fall 2023

Niyirora, Clement

Glycoside hydrolase family 70 (GH70) glucansucrases have various applications in both food and non-food industries. This study reports the characterization of two GH70 enzymes, dextransucrase and branching sucrase, of Apilactobacillus kunkeei DSM 12361 on a range of acceptor substrates. GtfZ of...

Spring 2023

Feizollahi, Ehsan

Contamination of grains with mycotoxins causes quality loss and hence considerable financial loss to the grain industry. Several mycotoxins are resistant to high temperatures and the elimination of them from grains is a challenging task. Atmospheric cold plasma (ACP) is an emerging non-thermal...

Spring 2023

Zubair, Muhammad

Water is the epicenter of sustainability and has an essential part of the existence and development of the ecosystem and socioeconomic pillars. However, one in every three humans does not have access to clean drinking water around the globe and heavy metal ions pollution is the major contributor....

Spring 2023

Matouri, Mashaer

The interest in the valorization of animal by-products such as shrimp shell and chicken feet has been growing as a sustainable approach to produce valuable biopolymers such as chitosan and collagen, that is also in line with the sustainability concept. These biopolymers could find applications in...

Spring 2023

Wang, Kun

Metabolic syndrome and obesity-related complications such as insulin resistance (IR), type II diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) have remained a critical worldwide health issue. A previously published study by our group revealed that low birth weight (LBW) piglets exhibited IR and...

Spring 2023

Evanchuk, Jenna L

Background: Investigations that assess how maternal iron or vitamin D status biomarkers change across pregnancy and postpartum, and their relationships with maternal and offspring outcomes, in cohorts of healthy pregnant individuals from high-income countries are limited. Recent reports suggest...

Spring 2023

Giebelhaus, Johannes D

Global agriculture is currently under pressure to sustain the growing global population, and pulse crops like field peas could provide a greater portion of dietary protein to help offset pressures on sustainable crop production. Many field pea varieties have a mutation in the gibberellin (GA)...