Background: Edible flowers are important food resources due to their high content of nutrients and bioactive compounds. In Mexico these have been part the diet indigenous mestizo, also sources income for families that cultivate, gather sell them.
 Questions: What species edible flower commercialized in local markets Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico? How they prepared? nutritional contents ...

Introduction. The species and functional diversity of pollinators are important components for the reproduction cultivated plants. More information is necessary about this its geographical variation in crops such as Cucurbita pepo, one most global agriculture. Objective. To describe geographic community bees that visit C. pepo Costa Rica their foraging s
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Studies by LE CLERC DU SABLON ill 1905 (5) established the general naturle of the changes oceurringo in the fruits of Cueurbits during maturationi anid storage. At matuiity the solids of the fruits of Cucurbita pepo var. couroge olive were high in starch and relatively low in sugar. During storaoe the conversion of stareh to sugar was rapid, as was also the loss of sugar by respiration. On long...

This study investigated the level of pesticide pollution using marrow squash (Cucurbita pepo L.), cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme), banana pepper (Capsicum annuum), lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.), green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), and onion (Allium fl avum L.) in Kirklareli, Turkey. For this purpose, the conce...

Two types of thylakoid degradation are described, both including leaf bleaching (i.e. chlorophyll degradation) and destruction of the photosynthetic membranes. The first type of degradation is characterized by coiling of single thylakoids and by cup-shape stacking of grana thylakoids. This type of thylakoid degradation was observed in leaves of the aurea varieties (conditional mutants) of sever...