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Bamboo Shoots (bamboo + shoot)

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Chemistry100%

Selected Abstracts

A two-stage convective air and vacuum freeze-drying technique for bamboo shoots

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, Issue 6 2005
Yanyang Xu
Summary To obtain dehydrated bamboo shoot slices of high quality, a two-stage hybrid method of drying was tested to see if it could be cost-effective. While freeze-drying provides the best quality bamboo shoot it is a very expensive process. In this study, the drying techniques (a) hot airflow drying followed by vacuum freeze drying and (b) the reverse of the process (a) were examined. The quality of bamboo shoots dried by process (b) was found to be approximately equal to that of freeze-dried bamboo shoots but at a significantly lower cost. This paper reports results comparing the two processes in terms of energy consumption and the physico-chemical properties of the dried bamboo. [source]

Preparation of monoclonal antibody bank against whole water-soluble proteins from rapid-growing bamboo shoots

PROTEINS: STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS, Issue 22 2006
Yu-Jen Wu
Abstract An antibody bank against the whole proteins in a proteome is a useful tool for biological research. Using the standard cell fusion method, and a modified screening protocol, we produced an mAb bank against the total water-soluble proteins extracted from the rapid-growing green bamboo shoots. An improved two-stage strategy was employed to enrich those poor immunogenic or lower expressed proteins. Totally, we obtained a bank of 192 mAb which were identified as distinctive to each other by 2-DE and immunostaining. [source]