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Fall 2020

Azam Nikzad

Canola (Brassica napus L.) is an amphidiploid or allotetraploid (AACC, 2n = 4x = 38) crop plant and it is one of the most important oilseed crops in the world. The narrow genetic base of this crop, especially in its C genome, is not only a major impediment for its continued improvement but also...

Spring 2017

Griffith, Candace L

Ruminants have the capacity to utilize fibrous plant materials as substrates to provide energy for maintenance and growth. However, digestion of poor quality forage is incomplete in ruminants and varies among individual animals. Consequently, two studies were conducted in an attempt to elucidate...

Spring 2011

Ketabi, Ali

Isomalto-oligosaccharides (IMO) with α(1→6) and α(1→4) glucosidic linkages are produced by enzymatic conversion of starch. Isomalto-oligosaccharides are partially digested in the intestine but little information is available regarding their metabolim in vivo. It was the aim of this study to...

2008

Oatway, Lori Anne

Fall 2016

Escobar, Carlos Paul

Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas with an elevated global warming potential (GWP) equivalent to 28 times that of CO2. Also, production of enteric CH4 results in a 2 to 12% loss of the gross energy intake of cattle thus knowing the amount of CH4 released to the environment is important. The...

1998

Stanford, Kimberly.

Spring 2019

Sharma, Devesh

Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy using polarized light was investigated for its ability to predict Warner Bratzler shear force (WBSF), lightness (L), redness (a), and yellowness (b), drip loss, cooking loss, pH and intramuscular fat of bovine longissimus thoracis (LT, rib eye) muscle at 3 and 12...

Spring 2014

Dahlawi, Doaa H

A 24 hour urinary fructose excretion correlates with total sugar intakes. However, whether or not a random (“spot”) urinary fructose measurement is a reliable biomarker of fructose intake is not known. This study was done to determine the extent to which it is possible to estimate fructose intake...

Spring 2016

Yu, Wenlin

Each year the egg industry produces about 18 million spent hens in Canada. Since a viable market is not available, spent hens are a liability to the egg producers who have to pay the cost associated with disposal. The overall objective of this thesis was to prepare and characterize bioactive...

Spring 2017

Zhao, Lisha

Liposomes are versatile vesicles of a phospholipid bilayer, which offer great protection for active compounds. Encapsulated compounds can be protected from the unfavorable external conditions so that their chemical stability and bioavailability can be greatly enhanced. The supercritical carbon...