Mosquitoes pose a major threat to human health by transmitting serious diseases. Development of resistance, cross-resistance, rising cost and possible toxicity hazards associated with synthetic insecticides are some of the reasons for revival of interest in plantbased products in recent years1–4. Search for cost-effective, safe and highly potent plant-based insecticides for the control of mosqu...

Molecular techniques based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can provide rapid and sensitive diagnosis of plum pox virus (PPV), the causal agent of the devastating 'sharka' disease of stone fruit trees. The present study compared routine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) procedures against a new system, PCR-ELISA (Boehringer Mannheim), which enables immunoenzymatic detection of PCR products....

The effects of adding 1%, 2% and 3% plum extract on the quality characteristics of vacuum-packaged, irradiated ready-to-eat turkey breast rolls were determined. Turkey breast rolls were sliced, packaged and irradiated at 0 or 3 kGy using a Linear Accelerator. Lipid oxidation, volatile profiles, color, texture, proximate analysis and sensory characteristics of sliced turkey breast rolls were det...

Acrylamide concentrations in prune products--baby strained prunes (range = 75-265 µg kg(-1)), baby apple/prune juice (33-61 µg kg(-1)), prune juice (186-916 µg kg(-1)) and prunes (58-332 µg kg(-1))--on the Canadian market were determined. The formation of acrylamide in a simulated plum juice was also investigated under 'drying conditions' in an open vessel at temperatures <100°C for 24 h and un...

Phytoremediation is a green technology; however, very few species of arid environments have been identified as hyperaccumulators and fast growers. Therefore, greenhouse experiment was performed to evidence the phytoaccumulation potential Conocarpus erectus, Syzygium cumini, Populus deltoides Morus alba at sapling stage. Six-month-old plant saplings were subjected control (CK; 0 µM) cadmium trea...

A tree with n vertices is called graceful if there exists a labeling of its vertices with the numbers from 1 to n such that the set of absolute values of the differences of the numbers assigned to the ends of each edge is the set {1, 2, .., n− 1}. The problem of whether or not all trees are graceful is still open. In this paper, we give an extensive survey of most of the results related to this...

The phenolic compounds of 'Green Gage' (GG) plums ( Prunus domestica L.), "Rainha Claudia Verde", from a 'protected designation of origin' (PDO), in Portugal, were quantified in both flesh and skin tissues of plums collected in two different orchards (GG-V and GG-C). Analyzes of phenolic compounds were also performed on another GG European plum obtained in France (GG-F) and two other French plu...

The potential of using compact discs as high throughput screening platforms for DNA microarraying is discussed and applied to discriminate genetic variations of Plum pox virus.

We examined performance of mice in discrimination of liquor odors by Y-maze behavioral assays. Thirsty mice were initially trained to choose the odor of a red wine in the Y-maze. After successful training (>70% concordance for each trained mouse), the individual mice were able to discriminate the learned red wine from other liquors, including white wine, rosé wine, sake, and plum liqueur. Howev...