Rice with lower amylose content could have reduced starch digestibility due to crystallized resistant starch synthesized by linearized amylopectin.

Background: High resistant starch (RS) rice with a low glycemic index (GI) is digested more slowly, resulting in a slow increase in the postprandial blood glucose level. People with milled rice as a staple diet, and with sedentary lifestyles, are more prone to acquire type 2 diabetes in the long term. With an increasing population of diabetics worldwide, one possible solution is the development of rice-based, low-GI foods with high RS content rice.

Tuber crops could be a potential food component for lowering starch digestibility and estimated glycemic index in rice.

Background: Rice is considered a high estimated glycemic index (eGI) food because of its higher starch digestibility, which leads to type II diabetes and obesity as a result of a sedentary life style. Furthermore, the incresaing diabetes cases in rice-consuming populations worldwide need alternative methods to reduce the glycemic impact of rice, with dietary prescriptions based on the eGI value of food being an attractive and practical concept. Rice is often paired with vegetables, pulses, tubers and roots, a staple food group in Africa, Latin America and Asia, which are rich in fibre and health-promoting compounds.

Construction of a novel ternary synergistic CuFeO-SnO-rGO heterojunction for efficient removal of cyanide from contaminated water.

Many industrial effluents release cyanide, a well-known hazardous and bio-recalcitrant pollutant, and thus, the treatment of cyanide wastewater is a major challenge. In the current study, a CuFeO-SnO-rGO nanocomposite was synthesized to remove cyanide from an aqueous system. The structural and morphological characterizations of the nanomaterials were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectra (EDX) analysis.

A chloroplast Glycolate catabolic pathway bypassing the endogenous photorespiratory cycle enhances photosynthesis, biomass and yield in rice (Oryza sativa L.).

Photorespiration accounts for 20-50 % reduction in grain yield in C crops. The process is essential to remove 2-phosphoglycolate produced due to the oxygenation activity of the ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (RuBisCO) enzyme. Attempts were made to improve photosynthesis through enriched CO concentration by installing numerous photorespiratory bypass modules in the chloroplast of several crops.

Ionic selectivity and coordinated transport of Na and K in flag leaves render differential salt tolerance in rice at the reproductive stage.

The present study shows that salt tolerance in the reproductive stage of rice is primarily governed by the selective Na and K transport from the root to upper plant parts. Ionic discrimination at the flag leaf, governed by differential expression of Na- and K-specific transporters/ion pumps, is associated with reduced spikelet sterility and reproductive stage salt tolerance. Reproductive stage salt tolerance is crucial in rice to guarantee yield under saline condition.