Naturally produced lovastatin modifies the histology and proteome profile of goat skeletal muscle by Teik Kee Leo, Sani Garba, Danmaigoro Abubakar, Awis Qurni Sazili, Su, Candyrine Chui Len, Mohammad Faseleh Jahromi, Yong Meng Goh, Ron Ronimus, Stefan Muetzel, Juan Boo Liang

“…A total of 20 intact male Saanen goats were randomly assigned in equal numbers to 4 groups, and fed with a total mixed ration containing 50% rice straw, 22.8% concentrates and 27.2% of various proportions of untreated or treated palm kernel cake (PKC) to achieve the target daily intake levels of 0 (Control), 2 (Low), 4 (Medium) or 6 (High) mg lovastatin/kg body weight (BW). …”
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Antioxidant properties of polyphenol of moringa oleifera leaves and polyphenol glycoside catalyzed by trans glycosylation of Trichoderma viride by Joko Sulistyo, Sohaib Nazir

“…The study had shown that substrates such as starch, maltodexrin, corn flour, wheat flour, rice flour and cassava flour were also as potential substrates to synthesis the polyphenol glycoside in the presence of polyphenolic extract as acceptor. …”
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Characterization of physical, chemical and microstructure properties in the soft clay soil of the paddy field area by Muhammad Rendana, Wan Mohd Razi Idris, Sahibin Abdul Rahim, Zulfahmi Ali Rahman, Tukimat Lihan

“…The occurrence of soft clay soil in paddy field areas can decline soil quality and rice production. Therefore, to find the best technique for amending this soil, this study aimed to analyze the physical, chemical, and microstructure properties of the soft clay soil in the paddy field area. …”
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Impact of population growth and land use and land cover (LULC) changes on water quality in tourism-dependent economies using a geographically weighted regression approach by Andi Besse Rimba, Geetha Mohan, Saroj Kumar Chapagain, Andi Arumansawang, Carolyn Melissa Payus, Kensuke Fukushi, Husnayaen Msi, Takahiro Osawa, Ram Avtar

“…The geographically weighted regression (GWR) analyze the spatially varying relationships among population density, LULC categories (i.e., built-up areas, rice fields, farms, and forests), and 11 water quality indicators across three selected rivers (Ayung, Badung, and Mati) with different levels of tourism urbanization in Bali Province, Indonesia. …”
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Pedo-Transfer Function for Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Paddy Soils by Wayayok, Aimrun

“…Soil samples were collected randomly depending on the soil series within the 2,300 ha Sawah sempadan compartment rice cultivation area. There are five dominant soil series namely, Jawa (Sulfic Tropaquept), Sedu (Typic Suljaquept), Sempadan (Sulfic Tropaquept), Karang (Typic Sulfaquept) and Telok (Typic Suljaquept). …”
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Biotransformation of gluten-free composite flour mediated by lactic acid bacteria via solid-state fermentation process conducted under different moisture contents by Koyum, Kareem Adebayo

“…Therefore, the LAB strains were employed in this study to biotransform the gluten-free composite flour derived from rice, sorghum, and soybean. The SSF process was performed under 30- 60% moisture content for 7 days, where samples were withdrawn at 24 h intervals for various analyses such as LAB cell viability, pH, total titratable acidity, extracellular protease activity, soluble protein concentration, crude protein content, and in vitro protein digestibility. …”
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Imidacloprid Biodegradation by Soil Bacteria and Relationship to Soil Bacterial Diversity by Moghaddam, Nasrin Sabour

“…Application of imidacloprid as plant, seed and soil treatments has become a common practice to control pests on rice, maize, potatoes and vegetables. Besides controlling the pests in plants and soil, imidacloprid have come into direct or indirect contact to the nontargeted soil microorganisms and may affect their population and activity of microbial communities in soil. …”
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Farmers' attitudes towards risk and their willingness to pay for crop insurance in Ketara, Terengganu, Malaysia by Roslan, Nurul Asrin

“…Paddy or rice industry is as important as other agricultural industry in the effort to attain the food security goals. …”
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Isolation of Ethylene Response Sensor Gene and Generation of Expressed Sequence Tags from the Oil Palm (Elaies Guineensis Jacq.) Mesocarp by Abdul Wahab, Nurniwalis

“…The clones were found to have high sequence similarities to plant genes especially rice (34.9%) and Arabidopsis (20.3%). Majority (34.4%) of the clones were unable to be classified whereas 15.4%, 12.9% and 12.0% of the clones were categorized under cell rescue, defence and virulence, metabolism and protein synthesis, respectively. …”
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Characterization and stability of selected biochars and effect of their application on soil physical properties and corn growth by Mohialdeen, Abulrazzaq Huda

“…Three kinds of primary biochar were used, namely, empty fruit bunch biochar (EFB), wood biochar (WB), and rice husk biochar (RHB). EFB and WB were produced by slow pyrolysis method, whereas RHB was produced by the gasification. …”
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Characterization and pathogenicity of Rhizoctonia spp isolated from various crop species in different agroecosystems in Malaysia by Rashed, Osamah Zaid Ali

“…The virulence among isolates of AG-1 IA was varied where strains of rice were more virulent than the strains of corn. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation of plain and Ni-reinforced porous alumina ceramics composites produced with agro-waste pore formers by Theophilus, Dele-Afolabi Temitope

“…In the present study, the singular effect of different pore formers (rice husk and sugarcane bagasse) as well as the joint effect of these pore formers and nickel (Ni) reinforcement on the mechanical and corrosion resistance of plain and Ni-reinforced porous alumina ceramics composites have been studied respectively. …”
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Fungal Screening and Isolation of Cellulolytic, Mannan and Protein Degrading Enzyme Producers in Palm Kernel Cake Solid State Fermentation by Farida Asras, Mohd Fazli

“…The potential isolates were obtained from various sources such as peat soil, rotten rice chaff, ‘Tanah Bakar’, rotten palm frond and raw PKC. …”
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Studies on the Characterisation and Utilisation of a New Phytase-Producing Bacterium Isolated from the Rumen of Cattle by Ganqiu, Lan

“…Mitsuokella jalaludinii hydrolysed sodium phytate rapidly and the phytase production was strongly induced by phytate present in the medium. Rice bran (RB) and soybean milk (SM) were found to be the best carbon and nitrogen sources, respectively, for phytase production by M. jalaludinii. …”
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Effects of tropical fruit peels on in vitro rumen fermentation profiles and gas production in cattle by Othman, Athira Amanina

“…The basis diet consists of rice straw and concentrate. All the results were compared to the control diet’s result. …”
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Anti cancer effect of paddy husk extracts in human salivary gland epidermoid cancer cells in vitro model by Al-Azazi, Entesar Ahmed Abdullah

“…Paddy husk is an inedible agriculture waste obtained during the process of rice milling. Studies reported that it has chemopreventive potential due to the presence of related phytochemicals. …”
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Flexural behaviour of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with textile fine grained mortar by Jamellodin, Zalipah

“…The FGM was designed with three different mix cementitious materials (pozzolans) to determine the optimum compressive strength consisting of fly ash (FA), palm oil fuel ash (POFA) and rice husk ash (RHA) as cement replacement material. …”
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Microporous Zeolite based Catalysts for Fine Chemicals by Ramli, Zainab

“…Most of these zeolite based catalysts have been successfully prepared by using rice husk ash as silica source. Ferrierite (Fer), zeolite Beta with different Si/Al ratios and zeolitic mesoporous ITQ-6, have been obtained in pure form in a shorter crystallization time whereas titanium silicalite (TS-1) and zeolite X were also obtained by using commercial silica and natural zeolite respectively. …”
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Mechanical properties and fracture behavior of natural fiber-glass fiber reinforced epoxy matrix hybrid composites by Mawarnie, Ismail

“…This study was chosen due to the fewer findings of this hybrid composite, mainly studies using pineapple leaf fiber (PALF) and rice husk (RH) fiber as natural fibers although these fibers are waste materials with a high content of hemicellulose and cellulose. …”
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Production of xylooligosaccharides from lignocellulosic biomass using enzymatic hydrolysis by Nurul Aishah, Mazlan

“…This present study used three types of lignocellulosic biomass namely oil palm frond bagasse (OPFB), oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) and rice straw (RS) for XOS production via enzymatic hydrolysis using commercial Cellic Htec2 enzyme. …”
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