Plants can defend themselves against fungal infection by natural means induced by biotic and abiotic elicitors. Osthol is a natural compound extracted from dried fruits of Cnidii Monnieri Fructus. In this study, it has been shown to not only be a fungicide with acceptable curative properties (control efficacy of 68.72), but it also showed a significant prophylactic effect (with control efficacy...

This paper is concerned with the elastic buckling of pumpkin-shaped balloon structures. Pumpkin balloons, currently being used in the NASA Ultra-Long Duration Ballooning (ULDB) Program, consist of stiff meridional tendons that constrain a thin, highly curved plastic surface. The present study exploits the high degree of symmetry of this design by adopting a newly developed, closed form expressi...

This study aims to improve the dietary habits of university students by planting an easy choice.First, we captured the dietary habits of university students by analyzing their purchasing behavior with the data from their meal cards (a prepaid food voucher). As a result of analysis, we found that the dietary habits of meal card users are unbalanced and have many areas for improvement. we also fo...

Gibberellin (GA) signalling during pumpkin male flower development is highly regulated, including biosynthetic, perception, and transduction pathways. GA 20-oxidases, 3-oxidases, and 2-oxidases catalyse the final part of GA synthesis. Additionally, 7-oxidase initiates this part of the pathway in some cucurbits including Cucurbita maxima L. (pumpkin). Expression patterns for these GA-oxidase-enc...

Growing population, together with unpredictable climatic changes and dwindling fertile land, has forced to explore the alternate underutilized flora from the rich biome. There is a great opportunity for economic growth in agriculture system by introducing underutilized commodity in market place. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to elucidate the nutritional potential of an important u...

A cDNA clone for isocitrate lyase (ICL) was isolated from a cDNA library prepared from the poly(A)+ RNA of etiolated pumpkin cotyledons. The cDNA encoded a polypeptide with 576 amino acids, whose sequence is more than 79% identical to those of ICL from other higher plants and contains the C-terminal tripeptide, Ser-Arg-Met, which is a putative targeting signal to microbodies. Immunogold analysi...

The study was carried out to optimize pumpkin oil recovery in the process of aqueous extraction preceded by enzymatic maceration of seeds, as well as to compare the quality of the obtained oil to the quality of cold-pressed pumpkin seed oil. Hydrated pulp of hulless pumpkin seeds was macerated using a 2% (by mass) cocktail of commercial pectinolytic, cellulolytic and proteolytic preparations (R...

introduction: cyclophosphamide is a chemotherapy drug with several side effects on various organs such as male reproductive system that can cause infertility. in this study, we assessed combined effect of ginger and pumpkin extractson rat testis after cp injection. methods: forty adult male rats were randomly divided into 4 groups: the control group received intraperitoneal injection of isotoni...