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adj. - Capable of undergoing a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds

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  • Pretreatment-the physical or chemical conversion of the raw material to a hydrolyzable substrate.
  • Phosphate application also led to an increase in soil N, particularly of the hydrolyzable organic-N fraction.
  • In soy sauce fermentation, whole soybeans are steamed to make the soy protein more easily hydrolyzable by the proteases of Aspergillus oryzae.
  • The amount of N2 fixed was greater in mungbean and moth bean than in clusterbean but the mineralized and hydrolyzable organic-N fractions increased more under clusterbean.
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