© 2005 The Authors. Journal Compilation © 2005 The Nautical Archaeology Society. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. Blackwell Publishing Ltd SAILING THE PEPPER WRECK: UNDERSTANDING A PORTUGUESE INDIAMAN N UTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 31.2 Sailing the Pepper Wreck: a Proposed Methodology for Understanding an Early 17...

2-Isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, a potent bell-pepper odorant, binds to cow olfactory mucosa homogenate. The receptor is saturable in the micromolar range and is competitively inhibited by other bell-pepper odourants, but not by other pyrazines of different odours. Other tissues do not bind 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine at a significant extent. We suggest that this receptor is involved in odour dis...

Pepper fruit is one of the highest vitamin C sources of plant origin for our diet. In plants, ascorbic acid is mainly synthesized through the L-galactose pathway, being the L-galactono-1,4-lactone dehydrogenase (GalLDH) the last step. Using pepper fruits, the full GalLDH gene was cloned and the protein molecular characterization accomplished. GalLDH protein sequence (586 residues) showed a 37 a...

Sensory evaluation of quinoa gluten-free whole grain low fat and salt snacks was conducted. The snacks were Quinoa, Quinoa-Cayenne Pepper, Quinoa-Ginger and Quinoa-Turmeric. Cayenne pepper, ginger and turmeric are common spices that contain health promoting nutrients. Cayenne pepper has been associated with enhancing heat production. Ginger has been reported to improve blood flow and prevent jo...

Anthophilous flower thrips in the genus Frankliniella (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) exploit ephemeral plant resources and therefore must be capable of successfully locating appropriate hosts on a repeated basis, yet little is known of interspecific and intraspecific variation in responses to host plant type and nutritional quality. Field trials were conducted over two seasons to determine if the ab...

A survey for the agro-ecological distribution of Pepper veinal mottle virus (PVMV) (Family Potyviridae, genus Potyvirus) its incidence and severity on cultivated pepper was conducted between 2003 to 2005 in six agro-ecological zones in Nigeria, comprising the major pepper producing areas of the humid forest, derived savanna, southern Guinea savanna, mid-altitude, northern Guinea savanna and Sud...

Seasonal dispersal and diversity of aphid species were monitored on pepper farms in St. Catherine, Jamaica throughout 1998 and 1999 to identify the most likely vectors of tobacco etch virus (TEV) in pepper Þelds. Flight activitywasmonitoredweekly on Þve farms usingwater pan traps. More than 30 aphid species were identiÞed, 12 of which are new records for Jamaica. Ninety-two percent of the aphid...

the objective of this study was to assess the microbial contamination of razavi khorasan (iran) hot red pepper. the natural occurrence of aflatoxins and ochratoxin a in those samples was also investigated. for this purpose, 36 samples of this kind of pepper were collected from a farm and sun-dried. standard and established methods were used for both microbiological analyses and mycotoxins ident...

There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This project was funded by the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (2015NWB046) and the Program for the Top Young Talents in Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (1630052015049). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or ...

Chili peppers (Capsicum spp.) are widely cultivated food plants that arose in the Americas and are now incorporated into cuisines worldwide. Here, we report a genus-specific starch morphotype that provides a means to identify chili peppers from archaeological contexts and trace both their domestication and dispersal. These starch microfossils have been found at seven sites dating from 6000 year...