Broccoli and cabbage are important vegetable crops that produce hybrid seeds after insect pollination; the size of floral organs is crucial for this process. To investigate the genetic characteristics of floral organ sizes (corolla width, petal length and width, and lengths of stamen, anther, style, and stigma) and to improve the flower size and breeding efficiency of broccoli, we used multi-ge...

Surveys were conducted in the major apple growing regions of New York state to determine the incidence of borers infesting burrknots on clonal apple rootstocks. Dogwood borer, Synanthedon scitula (Harris), was generally prevalent throughout the state, but American plum borer, Euzophera semifuneralis (Walker), was limited to western New York apple orchards near infested stone fruit trees. Insect...

The degree of floral gloss varies between species. However, little is known about this distinctive floral trait, even though it could be a key feature of floral biotic and abiotic interactions. One reason for the absence of knowledge is the lack of a simple, repeatable method of gloss measurement that can be used in the field to study floral gloss. A protocol is described for measuring gloss in...

In this study, banana flower petal ash has been considered as an effective catalyst in the transesterification to produce biodiesel from waste cooking oil.

Impatiens bokorensis, a new species of family Balsaminaceae from Phnum Bokor National Park in southwestern Cambodia, is described and illustrated. The species is similar to Impatiens patula, but is readily distinguished by the orbicular-obovate dorsal petal, shorter pedicels and larger seeds.

Pharmacognosy Research,2022,14,4,391-394.DOI:10.5530/pres.14.4.57Published:October 2022Type:Original ArticleAuthors:Safarova Nilufar Mubariz, Isayev Javanshir Isa, Gasimov Eldar Kochari, and Rzayev Fuad Huseynali Author(s) affiliations:Safarova Mubariz*, Department of Pharmocognosy, Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, AZERBAIJAN. Abstract:Background: Representatives the Campanulaceae family ar...

By a cusp V we shall mean the image of the unit disk D under a bounded injective holomorphic map h into C whose derivative vanishes at exactly one point. The simplest example is the Neil parabola, given by h(ζ) = (ζ, ζ). See [3, 4] for background and theory on the Neil parabola, which is pictured in Figure 1. A generalization of a cusp is a petal. A petal is the image of the unit disk D under a...

N. nucifera is one among the important medicinal plants assessed for its antiobesity action in various preclinical models. The present study was aimed at investigating the antiobesity effect of methanol and successive water extracts of petals of N. nucifera by studying its effect on adipogenesis, adipolysis, lipase, serotonin (5-HT2C), cannabinoid (CNR2), melanocyte concentrating hormone (MCHR1...