Highlights • Plant cell walls and dietary fiber are indigestible by the human digestion system.
• Plant-based food contains plant cell matrices and fibrous tissues. • Plant-based food …

Japanese pepper (sansho, Zanthoxylum piperitum) contains several types of sanshools
belonging to N-alkylamides. Because of the long-chain unsaturated fatty acids present in their …

Chromosomal DNAs from 77 wine yeast strains were examined by pulsed field gel electrophoresis
(PFGE). Judging from the numbers and sizes of the chromosomes, the PFGE patterns …

According to the statistics of Japan Frozen Food Association, the amount of frozen food
produced in Japan in 2002 was 1,485,326 tons and, if the amount of imported frozen foods is …

E26 avian leukemia oncogene 2, 3′ domain (Ets2) has been implicated in various biological
processes. An Ets2 mutant model (Ets2 db1/db1 ), which lacks the DNA-binding domain, …

Noise rejection is an important issue in practical application of FCM-type fuzzy clustering,
and noise clustering achieves robust estimation of cluster prototypes with an additional noise …

β-1,3-Glucans possess therapeutic potential owing to their ability to exhibit immunostimulating
activity. β-1,3-Glucans, isolated from various organisms, differ in their chemical structures, …

Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio changes in Japanese radish and carrot during boiling
were examined. Young’s modulus decreased rapidly within 2 min, then the decrease …

The pits of Japanese apricot, Prunus mume Sieb. et Zucc., which are composed of stones,
husks, kernels, and seeds, are unused by-products of the processing industry in Japan. The …

Phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics of four isolates of yeast-lysing bacteria isolated
from wastewater treatment systems were examined. The isolates were nonsporeforming…