2009

  2. Quinoa – a Review
    Michala Jancurová, Lucia Minarovičová, Alexander Dandár in Czech J. Food Sci. (2009)
    The healthy lifestyle and appropriate nutrition are stressed nowadays. New foodstuffs are still investigated with the aim to improve the diet and conduce to a better health state of the population. Pseudocereals (amaranth, buckwheat, and quinoa) are…
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  3. Open Access
    Preference of Quinoa Moth: Eurysacca Melanocampta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) for Two Varieties of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) in Olfactometry Assays
    Juan  F Costa, Walter   Cosio, Maritza   Cardenas, Erick   Yábar, Ernesto   Gianoli in Chilean journal of agricultural research (2009)
    Insects are attracted to plants by visual and olfactory cues. The quinoa moth, Eurysacca melanocampta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is the main insect pest of the quinoa crop, Chenopodium quinoa Willd. (Chenopodiales: Chenopodiaceae), in the…
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  4. Open Access
    Physiological responses of quinoa ( Chenopodium quinoa Willd .) to drought and waterlogging stresses : dry matter partitioning
    Juan A González, Miriam Gallardo, Mirna Hilal, Mariana Rosa, E Fernando in Botanical Studies (2009)
    Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) plants responded differently to drought and waterlogging. Plant and root dry weights (DW) were lower in both drought and waterlogging conditions than in well-watered conditions, but the lowest values were obtained…
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  6. Simulating Yield Response of Quinoa to Water Availability with AquaCrop
    Sam Geerts, Dirk Raes, Magali Garcia, Roberto Miranda, Jorge A. Cusicanqui, Cristal Taboada, et al.in Agronomy Journal (2009)
    The modeling of yield response to water is expected to play an increasingly important role in the optimization of crop water productivity (WP) in agriculture. During 3 yr (2004-2007), field experiments were conducted to assess the crop response to…
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  7. Assessment of genetic diversity patterns in Chilean quinoa (Chenopodium quinoaWilld.) germplasm using multiplex fluorescent microsatellite markers
    F. F. Fuentes, E. A. Martinez, P. V. Hinrichsen, E. N. Jellen, P. J. Maughan in Conservation Genetics(2009)
    Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is a sta- ple seed crop in the Andean region of South America. Improving quinoa productivity is a primary food-security issue for this region, and has been part of the impetus for the establishment of several new…
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  8. Characterization of Salt Overly Sensitive 1 (SOS1) gene homoeologs in quinoa(Chenopodium quinoa Willd.).
    P J Maughan, T B Turner, C E Coleman, D B Elzinga, E N Jellen, J A Morales, et al. in Genome / National Research Council Canada = Genome / Conseil national de recherches Canada (2009)
    Salt tolerance is an agronomically important trait that affects plant species around the globe. The Salt Overly Sensitive 1 (SOS1) gene encodes a plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter that plays an important role in germination and growth of plants in…
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  10. Does root-sourced ABA play a role for regulation of stomata under drought in quinoa(Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)
    Sven Erik Jacobsen, Fulai Liu, Christian Richardt Jensen in Scientia Horticulturae (2009)
    The Andean seed crop quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is traditionally grown under drought and other adverse conditions that constrain crop production in the Andes, and it is regarded as having considerable tolerance to soil drying. The objective…
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  11. Anthocyanins, total polyphenols and antioxidant activity in amaranth and quinoa seeds and sprouts during their growth
    Pawe?? Pa??ko, Henryk Barto??, Pawe?? Zagrodzki, Shela Gorinstein, Maria Fo??ta, Zofia Zachwiejain Food Chemistry (2009)
    Total antioxidant capacity, total phenolic contents (TP) and anthocyanins contents (ANT) were determined in Amaranthus cruentus and Chenopodium quinoa seeds and sprouts. Antioxidant activity of the investigated seeds decreased in the following…
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  14. Low-temperature effect on enzyme activities involved in sucrose-starch partitioning in salt-stressed and salt-acclimated cotyledons of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) seedlings
    Mariana Rosa, Mirna Hilal, Juan A. Gonz??lez, Fernando E. Prado in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry (2009)
    The effect of low temperature on growth, sucrose-starch partitioning and related enzymes in salt-stressed and salt-acclimated cotyledons of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) was studied. The growth of cotyledons and growing axes in seedlings grown…
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  15. Modeling the potential for closing quinoa yield gaps under varying water availability in the Bolivian Altiplano
    S. Geerts, D. Raes, M. Garcia, C. Taboada, R. Miranda, J. Cusicanqui, et al. in Agricultural Water Management (2009)
    In the Bolivian Altiplano, the yields of rainfed quinoa are relatively low and highly unstable. We use a validated crop water productivity model to examine the potential of closing quinoa yield gaps in this region. We simulate the expectable yields…
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  16. Foods formulation for people with celiac disease based on quinoa (Chenopoduimquinoa), cereal flours and starches mixtures
    Valeria Del Castillo, Gerardo Lescano, Margarita Armada in Archivos latinoamericanos de nutricion(2009)
    Gluten free food for people with celiac disease based on quinoa, rice and corn flours and starches, were formulated. An informatic tool (ALIM V 1.0) developed by the authors, was used for the formulation of these foods. The obtained products were…
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  20. Impact of Baking on Vitamin E Content of Pseudocereals Amaranth, Quinoa, and Buckwheat
    L. Alvarez-Jubete, M. Holse, Å. Hansen, E. K. Arendt, E. Gallagher in Cereal Chemistry (2009)
    The aim of this study was to analyze the vitamin E composition of amaranth, quinoa, and buckwheat pseudocereals. The method used consisted of a one-step extraction with hexane followed by normal-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (NP-HPLC)…
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  22. Development of a cookie formulation for celiac people using defatted Chilean hazel nut (Gevuina avellana. Mol) flour and quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) flour
    Mario Villarroel, Carolina Huiriqueo, Julia Hazbun, Diego Carrillo in Archivos latinoamericanos de nutricion (2009)
    The present investigation deals with the optimization of a cookie formulation based on deffated chilean hazel nut flour (DCHF) and quinoa flour (QF) characterized for being gluten free resources, aimed to increment the nutritional options of the…
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  23. Assessing the protective effect of vertically heterogeneous canopies against radiative frost: The case of quinoa on the Andean Altiplano
    T. Winkel, J. P. Lhomme, J. P N Laura, C. Mamani Alc??n, C. del Castillo, A. Rocheteau in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2009)
    Night radiative frost is a highly limiting factor for agriculture in Andean highlands. Nevertheless, a diversity of crop species have been domesticated there, commonly showing high heterogeneity in plant growth at the field level. The possible…
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  24. Aislados proteínicos de granos altoandinos Chenopodiaceas; quinua "ChenopodiumQuinoa" - Cañahua "Chenopodium Pallidicaule" por precipitación isoeléctrica
    Juan Carlos Callisaya Aroa, J. Antonio Alvarado K. in Revista Boliviana de Química (2009)
    The quinoa (Chenopodium Quinoa Willd) and the canihua (Chenopodium Pallidicaule Aellen), pseudocereals of the region of the Andes of South America, report an exceptional composition of amino acids. Considering these antecedents this study has the…
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  25. Gouvernance de la biodiversité du quinoa au Chili : entre logique de marché et logique domestique
    Eduardo Chia, Henri Hocdé, Diana Alfonso, Didier Bazile, L Nuñez, E Martinez in Localiser les produits : une voie durable au service de la diversité naturelle et culturelle des Suds ? Colloque International organisé par Mab/Unesco, l'IRD, le CIRAD, le MNHN (2009)
    Dans cet article nous présentons des premiers résultats d’un travail de recherche sur la biodiversité de la quinua -et du mil- et nous explorons, à partir de quatre scénarios, les conséquences sur la biodiversité et sa gouvernance d’une intégration…
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  26. Methyl jasmonate differentially affects tocopherol content and tyrosine amino transferase activity in cultured cells of Amaranthus caudatus and Chenopodium quinoa
    F. Antognoni, M. Faudale, F. Poli, S. Biondi in Plant Biology (2009)
    Tocopherols are lipid-soluble compounds synthesised exclusively by photosynthetic organisms. In this study, in vitro callus cultures were established from two plants that are naturally rich in tocopherols, Amaranthus caudatus and Chenopodium quinoa,…
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  27. Properties of quinoa and oat spaghetti loaded with carboxymethylcellulose sodium salt and pregelatinized starch as structuring agents
    S. Chillo, V. Civica, M. Iannetti, N. Suriano, M. Mastromatteo, M. A. Del Nobile in Carbohydrate Polymers(2009)
    Spaghetti based on quinoa or oat were manufactured using two different structuring agents, carboxymethylcellulose sodium salt (CMC) and pregelatinized starch at three different percentages (0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3% and 10%, 20%, 30%, respectively). The…
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  28. Consecuencias del incremento de la producción de quinua ( Chenopodium quinoa Willd .) en el altiplano sur de Bolivia
    Ana Maria, Medrano Echalar, Juan Carlos Torrico in Journal de Ciencia y Tecnologia Agraria (2009)
    Bolivia presenta severos problemas de degradación de suelos, cerca del 48% de la superficie del país presenta erosión, afectando en su totalidad a los departamentos de Oruro, Potosí, Chuquisaca y Tarija. La producción agrícola en la región…
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  29. Morphological and physiological responses of two varieties of a highland species (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) growing under near-ambient and strongly reduced solar UV-B in a lowland location
    Juan A. Gonz??lez, Mariana Rosa, Mar??a F. Parrado, Mirna Hilal, Fernando E. Prado in Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology (2009)
    Morphological and physiological responses of seedlings to different solar UV-B irradiances were evaluated in two varieties of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.), a crop species from Andean region of South America. Cristalina and Chucapaca varieties…
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  31. First case report of anaphylaxis to quinoa, a novel food in France
    C. Astier, D. A. Moneret-Vautrin, E. Puillandre, B. E. Bihain in Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2009)
    The article focuses on case of a 52-year-old man who developed anaphylaxis to quinoa in France. It mentions that the patient has developed critical systemic reaction after ingesting quinoa associated with fish and bread which were treated with…
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  32. A full-length infectious clone of beet soil-borne virus indicates the dispensability of the RNA-2 for virus survival in planta and symptom expression on Chenopodium quinoaleaves.
    François Crutzen, Mohsen Mehrvar, David Gilmer, Claude Bragard in The Journal of general virology(2009)
    For a better understanding of the functionality and pathogenicity of beet soil-borne virus (BSBV), full-length cDNA clones have been constructed for the three genomic RNAs. With the aim of assessing their effectiveness and relative contribution to…
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  33. El futuro de la quinoa en Chile: Diversidad logicas y escenarios de evolucion y sus consecuencias sobre la biodiversidad y la dinamica de los territorios
    Henri Hocdé, Eduardo Chia, Enrique A Martinez, Jose Delatorre in Revista geografica de Valparaíso(2009)
    Unlike of - but complementing with- the articles in this issue that review the biodiversity of Quinua in Chile from the current situation or the lessons of the past, this communication examines the biodiversity of this crop by exploring different…
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