Sustainability in Food Session Schedule/Venues
Glyphosate-Resistant Crops and Weeds: Present and Future
- 25 papers in four sessions
Soluble Cellulose as Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition and Health
- 15 papers in two sessions
Agricultural Biomass, Biobased Products, and Biofuels
- 38 papers in five sessions
Glyphosate-Resistant Crops and Weeds: Present and Future
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
Glyphosate-Resistant Crops and Their Economic Impacts
- Glyphosate: A once-in-a-century herbicide
- Current and future glyphosate-resistant crops of Monsanto
- New multiple herbicide crop resistance and formulation technologies to augment the utility of glyphosate
- Athenix technology for GRCs
- Grower perceptions and experiences with glyphosate-resistant weeds
- Glufosinate-resistant crops
- Economic impact of glyphosate-resistant crops
Evolved Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds and Weed Shifts
- Glyphosate-resistant weeds in North America: The reasons and future implications for US agriculture
- Glyphosate-resistant weeds of South America: An overview
- Glyphosate-resistant weeds in Australia, Asia, Africa, and Europe
- Evaluating an altered target-site variant of EPSPS for glyphosate resistance
- Resistance to glyphosate from altered translocation patterns
- Weed species shifts in GRCs
Resistance Management and IPM Aspects
- Simulation modeling to aid in glyphosate-resistance management
- Sustainable use of glyphosate in North American cropping systems
- Sustaining glyphosate in South American cropping system
- Managing the risk of glyphosate resistance in Australian glyphosate-resistant cotton production systems
- Impacts of conservation crop production systems on soil and water resources: Glyphosate-resistant crops (GRCs) are part of the management toolbox
- Disease control activities of glyphosate in glyphosate-resistant crops
Health and Environmental Aspects of Glyphosate-Resistant Crops
- Pollen vs. seed movement: Gene migration from glyphosate-resistant crops
- Fate of glyphosate in soil and the possibility of leaching to ground and surface waters
- Safety assessment of GR genes in food and feed
- Assessing the environmental consequences of glyphosate-resistant weeds in the US
- Comparison of environmental effects of glyphosate-resistant crops vs. what they replace in Europe
- Glyphosate and hormesis: Environmental implications
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Soluble Cellulose as Dietary Fiber in Human Nutrition and Health
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
Human Clinical Studies: Prevention of Metabolic Diseases
- Dietary portfolio including viscous fibers to control serum cholesterol
- Efficacy of hydroxypropylmethylcellulose in lowering blood cholesterol
- High-viscosity hydroxypropylmethylcellulose: A promising agent for metabolic risk factor management
- Decreases in adiposity by viscous indigestible polysaccharides in rats
- Human health benefits from consumption of soluble fibers
- Glycemic index: Effect of fiber on postprandial glycemia
Nutritional Studies and Food Chemistry
- Effects of HPMC on intralumenal characteristics that may be important to its hypocholesterolemic activity in humans
- Prevention of insulin resistance, hypertension and weight gain in hamsters fed soluble cellulose
- Potential nutritional benefits and unique in product functionalities of methylcellulose
- Methylcellulose as bulk laxative
- Composition and properties of edible water soluble celluloses
- Chemical characterization of cellulose ethers
- Determination of soluble celluloses in food matrices
- Modified celluloses in the restaurant
- Role of cellulosic gums in bakery products: Gluten-free products
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Agricultural Biomass, Biobased Products, and Biofuels
Below are the papers that will be presented in this session. To see abstracts of the papers, click on the session title above, then click on the number in front of the paper’s title
Defining the Challenges
- Agricultural biomass, biobased products, and biofuels: Challenges and opportunites
- Biomass-to-ethanol conversion: Strategies for developing flexible biorefineries
- Chemical and physical properties of pretreated biomass that affect enzyme accessibility and digestibility
- Biodiesel: Science based regulation and consumer protection
- Enzyme and microbial bioconversion of agricultural and forestry residues for transportation fuel
- Coproduction of fuel ethanol and new value added coproducts
- Energy balance of switchgrass grown for cellulosic ethanol in the Northern Plains, USA
Process and Product Control
- Biobased: Making it competitive and sustainable
- Developing herbaceous energy crops as feedstocks for bioethanol production
- Alternative feedstocks for renewable green energy fuel
- Aspergillus flavus genomic data mining provides clues for its use in producing biobased products
- Fully automated molecular biology routines for evaluation and characterization of industrial yeast strains optimized for ethanol production from cellulosic biomass and for biobased-pesticide expression
- Biological abatement for removal of inhibitors from biomass sugars
- FT-IR analysis of oil feedstock and biodiesel quality
- Effects of production practices on biodiesel quality
Process Characterization
- Product identification from the catalytic cracking of cis-9-octadecenoic acid
- Parthenium argentatum as a source of biobased products
- Castor oil: Biosynthesis and uses
- Structure-function relationships of a catalytically efficient β-D-xylosidase
- Enzymatic dewatering of distillers grains
- Biobased industrial lubricants
- Recent advances in bioconversion of agricultural biomass to butanol by fermentation: Employing potential of available renewable resources to produce a superior biofuel
- Synthesis of long-chain unsaturated-α,ω- dicarboxylic acids from renewable materials via olefin metathesis
Improving Bioproduct Design
- Properties of biodegradable feather keratin polymers
- Biopolymers from polylactic acid and milk proteins
- Extraction and electrospinning of zein extracted from corn gluten meal using acetic acid
- Improved physical properties of zein using glyoxal as a crosslinker
- Arthropod repelling constituents from a southern folk remedy: Investigations of the American beautyberry, Callicarpa americana
- Biobased herbicides
- Single-use, disposable food containers: Starch-based alternatives to petroleum-based plastics
- Incorporation of bacteriocin in edible pectin films for antimicrobial packaging
The Cellulosic Challenge
- Fast pyrolysis and biooil production from energy crops being developed within USDA-ARS
- Steam explosion method for producing microcrystalline cellulose from agricultural residues
- Developing enzyme systems for biomass destruction
- Process for obtaining cellulose acetate from agricultural by-products
- Fuel from herbaceous feedstocks: A switchgrass-centric perspective
- Hydrothermal conversion of wood: Reaction kinetics and process development
- Fractionating lignocellulose by using cellulose solvent and organic solvent
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