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Thavaratnam Vasanthan
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Research
Latest papers
In situ identification and quantification of starch-hydrolyzing bacteria attached to barley and corn grain in the rumen of cows fed barley-based diets.
FEMS microbiology ecology · 2015
Bioplastics from feather quill.
Biomacromolecules · 2011
Effects of viscosity and fermentability of dietary fibre on nutrient digestibility and digesta characteristics in ileal-cannulated grower pigs.
The British journal of nutrition · 2011
Latest funding
- $40,000
Understanding how modifications to native starch molecules would influence the morphology, physicochemical characteristics and amylase resistance of starch nanoparticles
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $282,000
Understanding the fundamental characteristic variations among starch nanoparticles from different botanical origins isolated by a combination of physical, chemical and enzymatic techniques
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $360,000
The future of pet food kibble: enhancing plant protein bioavailability with enzymatic preconditioning
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
In situ identification and quantification of starch-hydrolyzing bacteria attached to barley and corn grain in the rumen of cows fed barley-based diets.
Xia Y, Kong Y, Seviour R, Yang HE, Forster R, Vasanthan T, McAllister T
Bioplastics from feather quill.
Ullah A, Vasanthan T, Bressler D, Elias AL, Wu J
Effects of viscosity and fermentability of dietary fibre on nutrient digestibility and digesta characteristics in ileal-cannulated grower pigs.
Hooda S, Metzler-Zebeli BU, Vasanthan T, Zijlstra RT
Dietary oat beta-glucan reduces peak net glucose flux and insulin production and modulates plasma incretin in portal-vein catheterized grower pigs.
Hooda S, Matte JJ, Vasanthan T, Zijlstra RT
Supplementation of the diet with high-viscosity beta-glucan results in enrichment for lactobacilli in the rat cecum.
Snart J, Bibiloni R, Grayson T, Lay C, Zhang H, Allison GE, Laverdiere JK, Temelli F, Vasanthan T, Bell R, Tannock GW
Understanding how modifications to native starch molecules would influence the morphology, physicochemical characteristics and amylase resistance of starch nanoparticles
Principal investigators: Vasanthan, Thavaratnam
Keywords: grains; carbohydrates; biopolymers; starch; amylose and amylopectin; nanoparticles; high intensity sonication; debranching and branching enzymes; chemical modification; physicochemical properties
Understanding the fundamental characteristic variations among starch nanoparticles from different botanical origins isolated by a combination of physical, chemical and enzymatic techniques
Principal investigators: Vasanthan, Thavaratnam
The future of pet food kibble: enhancing plant protein bioavailability with enzymatic preconditioning
Principal investigators: Vasanthan, Thavaratnam
Influence of cereal grain non-starch polysaccharides such as beta-glucan and arabinoxylan in their native and hydrolysed forms on starch amylolysis
Principal investigators: Vasanthan, Thavaratnam
The influence of starch composition, morphology and structure on amylolysis
Principal investigators: Vasanthan, Thavaratnam
Characterization of functional biopolymers and nanoparticles
Principal investigators: GÂenzle, Michael
The influence of morphology and ultrastructure of hull-less barley starches on chemical modification
Principal investigators: Vasanthan, Thavaratnam
Scale up and commercialization of a novel grain fractionation technology
Principal investigators: Temelli, Feral
The Importance of Beta-Glucans to Immune Development in the Weaned Piglet
Principal investigators: Field, Catherine
Understanding molecular fragmentation of starch during extrusion-cooking
Principal investigators: Vasanthan, Thavaratnam
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Jianping Wu and Aman Ullah: 5 shared papers
- Jianping Wu and Feral Temelli: 2 shared papers
- Rhonda Bell and Thavaratnam Vasanthan: 1 shared paper
- Rhonda Bell and Feral Temelli: 1 shared paper
- Jianping Wu and Thavaratnam Vasanthan: 1 shared paper
- Jianping Wu and David Bressler: 1 shared paper
- Thavaratnam Vasanthan and David Bressler: 1 shared paper
- Thavaratnam Vasanthan and Feral Temelli: 1 shared paper
- Thavaratnam Vasanthan and Aman Ullah: 1 shared paper
- David Bressler and Aman Ullah: 1 shared paper
- Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- Agricultural Food and Nutritional Science
- Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences
Co-authors at University of Alberta, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Feral Temelli
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
1 shared papers, latest 2006
David Bressler
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Aman Ullah
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
1 shared papers, latest 2011
Rhonda Bell
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
1 shared papers, latest 2006
Jianping Wu
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2011
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