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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52901#.VKyUf8nQrzE' Author(s) Amal M. H. Abdel-Haleem , Azza A. Omran *   Affiliation(s) Department of Crops Technology Research, Food Technology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt . ABSTRACT The present work was aimed to prepare dried vegetarian soup supplemented with some legumes. Potatoes, hull-less barley flour, carrot, tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt, black pepper, coriander and cumin (served as F 1 ) were used in combination with lentil, green pea and chickpea to formulate F 2 , F 3, and F 4 , respectively. Chemical, physical, rheological and sensory evaluation was performed. The results indicated that supplementation with legumes significantly enhanced the nutritional characteristics, where the dried vegetarian soup mixtures had reasonable amounts of the required nutrients particularly, protein, carbohydrates, fats, Fe and Z...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52650#.VJzPMcCAM4 Author(s)   Jaap Jan Schröder Affiliation(s) Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands . ABSTRACT Our attitude towards mineral nitrogen (N) fertilizers is ambivalent. N fertilizers have on one hand increased our supply of food, feed and other bio-based raw materials tremendously and also improved the use efficiency of land and labor, but have on the other hand a negative impact on the quality of the environment and contributed to the depletion of fossil fuel reserves. This awareness has resulted in strong pleas to spend much more attention to the recycling o...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52336#.VJDhUcnQrzE Author(s)   Abdulkadir Mfilinge , Kelvin Mtei , Patrick Ndakidemi * Affiliation(s) Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania . ABSTRACT The study was conducted to investigate the effect of Rhizobium inoculation and supplementation of phosphorus and potassium on growth and total leaf chlorophyll content to the three released bush bean varieties in northern Tanzania. To achieve this aim, the glasshouse experiment was conducted at Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology while field experiment were carried out at Tanzania Coffee Research Institute, in Kilima...