Experiments were conducted in the greenhouse to assess root galling and egg production of three root-knot nematode species, Meloidogyne arenaria, M. incognita, and M. javanica, on several weeds common to Florida agricultural land. Weeds evaluated were Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot pigweed), Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge), Eleusine indica (goosegrass), Portulaca oleracea (common purslane...

Egyptian dieticians typically rely on foreign databases to find out oxalate content of food due to unavailability of local databases. The soil, fertilizers, climate and cultivars are often very different. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to establish a local database of oxalate content in Egyptian grown fruits and vegetables and selected daily common herbs. The current study analysed the...

a glasshouse experiment was conducted in universiti putra malaysia (upm) to evaluate the regeneration and yield potential in purslane using both seeds and stem cuttings of 20 collected accessions from different locations in western peninsular malaysia. analysis results revealed significant variations (p< 0.05) for morphological traits viz., plant height, number of main branches, number of nodes...

background &amp; aim: purslane (portulaca oleracea l.), belongs to the portulacaceace family, grows in many parts of iran. results of previous studies were indicated purslane is a rich source of essential fatty acids of omega-3 and omega-6.  portulaca oleracea is a widespread weed, being the eighth common plants of the world. the aim of current study was to compare the essential fatty acids com...

conclusions this work gained satisfactory results in developing a nutritionally fortified and palatably accepted papads using purslane leaves. background papads are cereal or legume based preserved products rich in proteins. they are consumed after deep fat frying as a side dish in india. in the present work, the traditional savoury was chosen for value addition with green leafy vegetables i.e....

Purslane(Portulaca oleracea L.) is a local plant in Iran that can easily breed. Chromium is a heavy metal that causes toxicity for the growth and development of plants. To study the effects of  potassium dichromate on growth, efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm), cell membrane stability index (MSI), indexes of oxidative stress and antioxidant properties of purslane, an experiment was d...

Soil in laboratory microcosm experiments was amended with dried and milled crop residue of onion (Allium cepa L. cv. Mission) or garlic (A. sativa L. cv. California Early). The amend ments, along with the additional factors of amendment concentration (0, 1 or 3% (w/w)) an soil temperature (23 or 39 8C), were evaluated with respect to germination of seeds of th weedy annual plants Echinochloa cr...