Due to the restricted genetic diversity among current asparagus cultivars, wild relatives are of particular interest as a source resistance. In this study, seventeen cultivars and were tested for their resistance Fusarium oxysporum in seedling test. Two isolates differing virulence (single spore lines with high low virulence) used testing. Most genotypes showed infestation, whereby Asparagus ae...

Bactericidal activity of crude extracts from Asparagus racemosus were screened against eight pathogenic strains which belongs to Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Micrococcus luteus, Escherischia coli, Vibrio cholerae, Shigella dysenteriae , Shigella flexneri and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The chloroform and ethanolic extract exhibited predominant antibacterial activity against all the bac...

Four postemergence herbicides were applied during the harvest season to an established asparagus crop. The spears were harvested every alternate day for 3 weeks after treatment, counted, assessed for quality and production, and analysed in the laboratory for presence of herbicide residues. The suggested use rates of clopyralid and dicamba caused little damage to spears and their residues in the...

Freshly harvested white asparagus (Asparagus of®cinalis L.) spears (about 500 g per package) were over-wrapped with a 16 mm stretch ®lm. Packages were kept at 2.58C, 58C, 108C, 158C, 208C and 258C under continuous darkness or light (15 1.9 W mÿ2) for 6 days. At all temperatures, an atmosphere of 4.5±6.9% CO2 and 3±6.7% O2 developed during the ®rst hour; after 8 h, CO2 increased to a maximum of ...

A deoxyribonuclease distinct from the previously isolated asparagus ribosome-inactivating proteins, possessing a molecular weight of 30 kDa and requiring a pH of 7.5 for optimum hydrolytic activity toward herring sperm DNA, was isolated from Asparagus officinalis seeds. The isolation procedure involved extraction with saline, (NH(4))(2)SO(4) precipitation, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-ce...