Introduction. Fresh vegetables are of a great value and the most common foods in human diet around world. They contain minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, antimetabolites, protein, carbohydrates, water. However, they major source heavy metals, which both essential toxic metals over wide range concentrations. The study sites serve as regional commercial center, where such cabbages, onions, carrots...

Glucosinolates (GLS), antioxidative compounds, total radical scavenging activities (TRSAs) and proteins of white cabbage samples derived from different regions of Europe, collected in the spring and autumn, were studied. Glucobrassicin and sinigrin were the dominating GLS in all analyzed cabbage samples. Depending on origin, these two GLS accounted for 30% to 70% of the total. The total GLS con...

The diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (L.) is the major pest of brassicas in the oceanic Pacific, where it is often associated with the cabbage cluster caterpillar Crocidolomia pavonana (F.) and, less frequently, with the cabbage webworms Hellula undalis (F.) and H. rogatalis Hulst. Cotesia plutellae Kurdjumov (and, at most, no more than one other major parasitoid in any one country) is pres...

In any NHS general hospital, a quick trawl through the clinical notes of older patients would identify several with labels, such as ‘acopia’, ‘social admission’, ‘bed-blocker’ or ‘atypical presentation’. None of these are recognized diagnoses and their presence on discharge summaries would cause consternation to clinical coders. Moving from what staff write to what they sometimes casually say –...

Abstract With the improvement in living standard and enhancement of awareness environmental protection by urban residents, food safety issues vegetables, especially pesticide residues have gradually become an area focus. According to previous investigations, problems overuse vegetable production City X, a typical metropolis northern China, cannot be underestimated. To figure out status quo exte...

A commentary on Phylogenomics of Xanthomonas field strains infecting pepper and tomato reveals diversity in effector repertoires and identifies determinants of host specificity Crop diseases impact both yield and product quality and result in important health, economic, environmental, and societal issues worldwide (Scholthof, 2003; Strange and Scott, 2005). These diseases are caused by microorg...

W hen Gertrude Stein famously wrote, “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” she seemed to reveal an ignorance of, if not contempt for, the flowers. After all, any gardener knows some roses look like flabby cabbages and others sport flesh-ripping thorns. Do physicians, MCOs, and PBMs who act as though “statin is a statin is a statin is a statin”display a similarly uncritical attitude toward the d...

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.” (Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter) In Ordinary Objects, Thomasson pursues an integrated conception of ontology and metaontology. In ontology, she defends the existence of shoes, ships, and other ordinar...