Peanut, also known as groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), is a native new world crop. Arachis species originated in South America and are found in tropical and subtropical areas. Eighty-one species have been named (Krapovickas ...

Peanut is a widespread legume, with an important agricultural and economic significance. It symbiotically interacts with rhizobia, increasing atmospheric nitrogen assimilation by the biological nitrogen fixation process, ...

Arsenic (As) is a harmful metalloid that can be naturally found in soilsand water. Consumption of contaminated groundwater is the most common sourceof human poisoning; furthermore, the ingestion of contaminated food is ...

The genus Arachis is composed of 82 species (Krapovickas and Gregory 1994; Valls and Simpson 2005; Valls et al 2013; Santana and Valls 2015) mainly distributed within a large region of South America, which extends from the ...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a spore-forming bacterium well-known for its insecticidal properties associated with its ability to produce crystal inclusions during sporulation. These inclusions are proteins encoded by cry ...

This chapter presents an overview of current chemometric tools utilized for the evaluation of several mycotoxins often found in foodstuff, such as cereals, peanuts, pistachio nuts and condiments. Mycotoxins are compounds ...

In recent years, studies have been carried out on the use of a wide variety of so called biomass residues, which include agricultural by-products, food industry discards, etc. These wastes have been analyzed, among other ...

For several years plant proteins have been the interest of both researchers and industrialists. The diversity, differences in physicochemical and nutritional properties, contributions to the health of consumers, low cost, ...

Aspergillus niger (A. niger) causes a disease called black mold on certain fruits and vegetables such as grapes, apricots, onions, and peanuts and is a common contaminant of food. Containment of this disease can reduce the ...

From a historical perspective, the massive consumption of vegetable oils is a relativelyrecent phenomenon that began in the twentieth century due to the development oflarge-scale production of machinery and supplies after ...