Unhealthy eating habits with sugar-rich and high-fat foods can bring nutritional imbalance and other chronic diseases. At present, there is an increasing demand in regulating human sub-health through functional foods....Unhealthy eating habits with sugar-rich and high-fat foods can bring nutritional imbalance and other chronic diseases. At present, there is an increasing demand in regulating human sub-health through functional foods. Agriophyllum squarrosum(L.) Moq., a pioneer plant native to sand dunes with ecological restoration function, is a traditional food plant of sand regions and Mongolian folk medicine. Numerous studies have confirmed that A. squarrosum seed, also called sand rice, has high nutritional value. However, the long-term health effects of eating sand rice remain unclear. To better explore and evaluate its long-term effects, hereby, ICR mice were fed with sand rice flour at different ratios(control, 60% and 95%) for 100 days. Results show that the growth and blood glucose level curve of these experimental mice were lower and more stable than that of the control. In addition, mice fed pure sand rice ingredient(95%) gained more stable body weight and blood glucose after 28 days, which revealed that sand rice is a food with comprehensive nutritional value and rarely negatively impacts the body growth performance. Our data also demonstrates that, the content of triglyceride(TG), total cholesterol(TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C) provided the lowest level in the blood of mice with a diet of pure sand rice ingredient, 0.48, 4.14, 0.91, 3.03 mmol/L, respectively. Also, T-SOD and GSH-PX activity provided a high level in mice with pure sand rice gradient, which significantly increased by 36%(T-SOD)and 19%(GSH-PX) compared to the control. These results suggest that long term intake of the pure sand rice ingredients is more helpful for stabilizing blood lipid and improve antioxidant capacity and beneficial to people suffering from chronic disease. This study supplies the first animal evidence to support the claim that sand rice is a promising functional food with comprehensive nutrition in the future. We are confident that, with increasing demands of daily sand rice usage, planting A. squarrosum in the vast desert regions will further increase the local economy and ecological restoration when coping with global warming.展开更多
The pioneer Amaranthaceae species sand rice(Agriophyllum squarrosum)is an annual psammophyte that is widely distributed in the deserts and sand fields of northern China.The well-balanced nutritional values,long consum...The pioneer Amaranthaceae species sand rice(Agriophyllum squarrosum)is an annual psammophyte that is widely distributed in the deserts and sand fields of northern China.The well-balanced nutritional values,long consumption history,and extreme stress tolerance of sand rice have fascinated scientists,prompting its development as a climate-resilient crop.Sand rice has been successfully introduced and cultivated on sandy and loess lands over the past decade,while large-scale artificial planting has been carried out in the Ulan Buh and Tengger deserts.However,the yield is far below the maximum potential,as estimated by the highest yield per plant ever found in the Tengger desert during our survey of wild populations.The current domestication of sand rice relies mainly on natural selection and mutagenesis breeding.A few elite lines with modified agronomic traits,such as compact architecture,high productivity,reduced trichomes,and short plant stature,have been developed from natural populations and a chemical mutagenesis library.Breeding new cultivars and broader cultivation of sand rice in deserts and marginal lands will stimulate economic growth and diversify the food supply,especially for the area west of the Hu Huanyong Line,thus contributing to environmental sustainability in northern China.展开更多
The use of rice husk and corn cob ashes as aggregates for foundry moulding sand has been studied. 5-12.5 weight percent of rice husk and corn cob ashes were added to the sand mixture and the sand properties determined...The use of rice husk and corn cob ashes as aggregates for foundry moulding sand has been studied. 5-12.5 weight percent of rice husk and corn cob ashes were added to the sand mixture and the sand properties determined. A mixture of equal proportion of rice husk and corn cob ashes was also used. In each case, four weight percent water and clay were added to the sand mixture. Some of the properties of the sand tested are: permeability, green compression strength, dry compression strength, green shear strength, dry shear strength, moisture content and permeability. The results showed that the green compression strength, green shear strength, moisture content and permeability decrease with increase in the additives (rice husk ash, corn cob ash, and (50% rice husk and 50% corn cob ashes). While dry compression strength and dry shear strength increase with increase in weight percent of the additives.展开更多
基金financially supported by the Biological Resources Programme,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.KFJ-BRP-007-015)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.31901079 and 32171608)+2 种基金Jiangsu Provincial Key Research and Development Program (Grant No.18YF1NA123)Key Laboratory of Highway Construction and Maintenance Technology in the Loess Region of Shanxi Transportation Research Institute (Grant No.BRZD 1809)Lanzhou Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (Grant No.2021-RC-76).
文摘Unhealthy eating habits with sugar-rich and high-fat foods can bring nutritional imbalance and other chronic diseases. At present, there is an increasing demand in regulating human sub-health through functional foods. Agriophyllum squarrosum(L.) Moq., a pioneer plant native to sand dunes with ecological restoration function, is a traditional food plant of sand regions and Mongolian folk medicine. Numerous studies have confirmed that A. squarrosum seed, also called sand rice, has high nutritional value. However, the long-term health effects of eating sand rice remain unclear. To better explore and evaluate its long-term effects, hereby, ICR mice were fed with sand rice flour at different ratios(control, 60% and 95%) for 100 days. Results show that the growth and blood glucose level curve of these experimental mice were lower and more stable than that of the control. In addition, mice fed pure sand rice ingredient(95%) gained more stable body weight and blood glucose after 28 days, which revealed that sand rice is a food with comprehensive nutritional value and rarely negatively impacts the body growth performance. Our data also demonstrates that, the content of triglyceride(TG), total cholesterol(TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C) provided the lowest level in the blood of mice with a diet of pure sand rice ingredient, 0.48, 4.14, 0.91, 3.03 mmol/L, respectively. Also, T-SOD and GSH-PX activity provided a high level in mice with pure sand rice gradient, which significantly increased by 36%(T-SOD)and 19%(GSH-PX) compared to the control. These results suggest that long term intake of the pure sand rice ingredients is more helpful for stabilizing blood lipid and improve antioxidant capacity and beneficial to people suffering from chronic disease. This study supplies the first animal evidence to support the claim that sand rice is a promising functional food with comprehensive nutrition in the future. We are confident that, with increasing demands of daily sand rice usage, planting A. squarrosum in the vast desert regions will further increase the local economy and ecological restoration when coping with global warming.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:31970352,32271760,31870381Excellent Member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS,Grant/Award Number:Y2022104The Western Light Project of CAS,Grant/Award Number:xbzg-zdsys-202204。
文摘The pioneer Amaranthaceae species sand rice(Agriophyllum squarrosum)is an annual psammophyte that is widely distributed in the deserts and sand fields of northern China.The well-balanced nutritional values,long consumption history,and extreme stress tolerance of sand rice have fascinated scientists,prompting its development as a climate-resilient crop.Sand rice has been successfully introduced and cultivated on sandy and loess lands over the past decade,while large-scale artificial planting has been carried out in the Ulan Buh and Tengger deserts.However,the yield is far below the maximum potential,as estimated by the highest yield per plant ever found in the Tengger desert during our survey of wild populations.The current domestication of sand rice relies mainly on natural selection and mutagenesis breeding.A few elite lines with modified agronomic traits,such as compact architecture,high productivity,reduced trichomes,and short plant stature,have been developed from natural populations and a chemical mutagenesis library.Breeding new cultivars and broader cultivation of sand rice in deserts and marginal lands will stimulate economic growth and diversify the food supply,especially for the area west of the Hu Huanyong Line,thus contributing to environmental sustainability in northern China.
文摘The use of rice husk and corn cob ashes as aggregates for foundry moulding sand has been studied. 5-12.5 weight percent of rice husk and corn cob ashes were added to the sand mixture and the sand properties determined. A mixture of equal proportion of rice husk and corn cob ashes was also used. In each case, four weight percent water and clay were added to the sand mixture. Some of the properties of the sand tested are: permeability, green compression strength, dry compression strength, green shear strength, dry shear strength, moisture content and permeability. The results showed that the green compression strength, green shear strength, moisture content and permeability decrease with increase in the additives (rice husk ash, corn cob ash, and (50% rice husk and 50% corn cob ashes). While dry compression strength and dry shear strength increase with increase in weight percent of the additives.
