Onion (Allium cepa) bulb from Liliaceae has antioxidant, spasmolytic and antihypertensive activities. The aim of present study was to investigate the antispasmodic effect of onion peel on rat ileum contractility. Onion peel powder was extracted by maceration in 70% alcohol for 72 h. A terminal portion of ileum from male Wistar rat was dissected and its contractions were recorded isotonically in...

pantoea ananatis is an important pathogen causing bacterial center rot in onion. isolated strains from onion soft rot bulbs based on morphological characteristics were tested for hypersensitivity reaction on tobacco. pathogenic strains underwent some biochemical tests which detected the presence of p. ananatis, based on rna16s sequencing, this result was confirmed. symptoms were reproduced by i...

Allium vegetables have been employed for a long time in traditional medical practice to treat a variety of diseases. Onion (Allium cepa L.), one of the representative Allium vegetables, has been used for centuries for its pungency, flavoring value, and medicinal properties. The bulb of onion is used medicinally and has been consumed as seasoning food for many centuries (Sengupta et al., 2004). ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Exogenous ethylene has recently gained commercial interest as a sprouting inhibitor of onion bulbs. The role of ethylene in dormancy and sprouting of onions, however, is not known. METHODS A cultivar (Allium cepa 'Copra') with a true period of dormancy was used. Dormant and sprouting states of onion bulbs were treated with supposedly saturating doses of ethylene or with th...

In today’s Internet, trust has been widely used to design anonymity and security enhanced systems. Some of these trust-based systems have been successfully deployed in the Internet for a long time and benefit a large population of Internet users. In particular, trust-based onion routing network is a representative example for the use of trust in protecting anonymity. As one of the most popular ...

abstract in order to detect onion yellow dwarf virus in khorasan province in iran, onion samples from major onion growing regions where collected in spring and summer 2010. to determine the distribution of the virus, samples were randomly taken from onion fields in vicinity of mashhad, chenaran, quchan, torbate heydarye, neyshabur, bardaskan, gonabad, fariman, faruj, shirvan, bojnourd and ash k...