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Subject:
Vegetable screening
Category: Science > Agriculture and Farming Asked by: jlapmlny-ga List Price: $25.00 |
Posted:
14 Jan 2005 08:19 PST
Expires: 13 Feb 2005 08:19 PST Question ID: 457184 |
I am looking for information on screening Vegetables such as Brocoli, Coliflower and Spinach etc. which are known to be highly infested vegetables. What I need is information on technology to screen and analyze these Vegetables to check if they are infested. It could be done through Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis (MNR) or ESR Electron-spin Resonance (ESR) through checking the Vegetable for the protien which is fould only in insects or check the Vegetable for Chitin (a plyymer found in shells of insects). Any other ideas of how and where to do this. I would like to know of labs that could do this for me or if I could do this myself with some equipment. |
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Subject:
Re: Vegetable screening
From: elra-ga on 14 Jan 2005 13:05 PST |
I suggest you do research via the National Agricultural Library www.nal.usda.gov |
Subject:
Re: Vegetable screening
From: drimagine-ga on 15 Jan 2005 14:26 PST |
jlapminy-ga The following are a two contacts that you could make to check about the validity of screening your vegetables. Roger Ruan - U Minn - http://rabbit.bae.umn.edu/~rruan Micheal McCarthy - U California - Davis - http://foodscience.ucdavis.edu/mccarthy/index.html I doubt you would have the magnetic field homogeneity to process spectra from your vegetables. Image based detection is your best chance. The above two labs may be interested in the problem but you would find it difficult and expensive to assemble the equipment to perform these tests. |
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