The accumulation of toxic elements in vegetables and melons grown agriculture, Brassica rapa - turnip, Solanum lycopersicum tomato, Citrullus lanatus watermelon, Capsicum annuum bell pepper, Daucus carota carrots, Cucurbita pepo pumpkin, Cucumis melo melon, also Prunus armeniaca apricot from fruit trees were analyzed. excess maximum allowable concentrations agricultural crops the element As by ...

Our special issue provides a first-of-its kind attempt to examine environmental injustices in the occupied West Bank through interdisciplinary perspectives, pointing broader settler colonial and neoliberal contexts within which they occur their more-than-human implications. Specifically, we seek understand what justice—a movement originating from, rooted in, United States—means context of Pales...

Sweetness or sugar content, represented by soluble solids contents (SSC), is a vital quality trait in watermelon breeding which can be assessed the refractive index method. However, sampling juice out of pulp process that both labor-intensive and error-prone. In this study, we developed an automatic SSC measurement system for to improve efficiency decrease costs. First, built cutting cut waterm...

Watermelon is susceptible to Fusarium wilt in successively mono-cropped soil. Pot experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of intercropping with aerobic rice on Fusarium wilt in watermelon. The tested soil was classified as a loam soil, previously planted with watermelon and collected from Hexian county, Anhui province, China. The results obtained are listed as follows: (1) 66.7% ...

OBJECTIVE To determine possible associations between the risk of breast cancer in Brazilian women and demographic, social and economical variables, and past dietary intake. METHODS A case-control study was conducted in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, between june and november 2003 involving a group of 33 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer and a control group of 33 healthy women vo...

1466 C RE D IT S: (L EF T) R .R O D RI G U EZ /U SG S; (R IG H T) D .G A RB A RY /S T. FR A N C IS X AV IE R U N IV ER SI TY Could watermelons grow in the steamy environs of the geyser Old Faithful? Or wheat thrive in the hot, dry desert? These crops don’t usually survive such hostile conditions, but with help from some microscopic sidekicks, they just might one day. By transplanting symbiotic ...

We used genotyping by sequencing to identify a set of 10,480 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for constructing a high-resolution genetic map of 1096 cM for watermelon. We assessed the genome-wide variation in recombination rate (GWRR) across the map and found an association between GWRR and genome-wide nucleotide diversity. Collinearity between the map and the genome-wide reference ...

BACKGROUND A critical analysis was made of cucurbit descriptions in Dioscorides' De Materia Medica, Columella's De Re Rustica and Pliny's Historia Naturalis, works on medicine, agriculture and natural science of the 1st century ce, as well as the Mishna and Tosefta, compilations of rabbinic law derived from the same time period together with cucurbit images dating from antiquity including paint...

JCPH – Vol. 63, n 2 – mars–avril 2010 184 many fans were “looking for blood”, the coach’s actions calmed us down and reinstated our faith in the team. Similarly, in pharmacist practice, we must all take responsibility for our actions. This attitude helps to ensure that we maintain the respect of our patients and other health care professionals. Little Plays Make a Difference: Whether it is conc...