Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill, 2n = 2× = 24, Rhamnaceae) is an economically important Chinese native species. It has high nutritional value, and its medicinal properties have led to extensive use in traditional oriental medicine. The characterization of genotypes using molecular markers is important for genetic studies and plant breeding. However, few simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers...

Anthocyanins from purple sweet potatoes can serve as natural colorants due to their high heat and light stability and are commonly used in juices, alcoholic beverages, jams, confectioneries, bread, snacks and noodles. There are several commercially available varieties of purple sweet potatoes, which can vary in storage root size, shape, and color. During the last decade sweet potato cultivars w...

Szechuan peppers, famous for their unique sensation and flavor, are widely used as a food additive and traditional herbal medicine. Zanthoxylum bungeanum and Z. armatum are both commonly recognized as Szechuan peppers, but they have different tastes and effects. The chemical components, genetic characteristics, and suitable habitat of six cultivars were analyzed in this study. The results indic...

Rice fragrance is one of the most important and determining factors in rice quality. Aromatic rice is a special group considered to be of the best quality. It is important to know the physiological behavior and genetic source of aromatic rice in order to improve breeding programs. In this research, thirteen rice cultivars were used for molecular and biochemical evaluations. The research populat...

Phoenix dactylifera L. (date palm), being economically very important, is widely cultivated in the Middle East and North Africa, having about 400 different cultivars. Assessment of date cultivars under trading and farming is a widely accepted problem owing to lack of a unique molecular signature for specific date cultivars. In the present study, eight different cultivars of dates viz., Khodry, ...

Expressed sequence tag (EST) markers have been used to assess variety and genetic diversity in wheat (Triticum aestivum). In this study, 1549 ESTs from wheat infested with yellow rust were used to examine the genetic diversity of six susceptible and resistant wheat cultivars. The aim of using these cultivars was to improve the competitiveness of public wheat breeding programs through the intens...

Two hundred twenty-one extra virgin olive oils (EVOO) were extracted from four olive mono-cultivars (Koroneiki, Tsounati, Adramitini, and Throubolia) originated from four divisions of Greece (Peloponnesus, Crete, Zakynthos, and Lesvos) and collected in five harvesting periods (2002-2006 and 2007-2008). All samples were chemically analysed by means of (1)H and (31)P NMR spectroscopy and characte...

A. If a (cusped) surface S admits an ideal triangulation T with no shears, we show an efficient algorithm to give S as a quotient of hypebolic plane H by a subgroup of PSL(2,Z). The algorithm runs in time O(n logn), where n is the number of triangles in the triangulation T . The algorithm generalizes to producing fundamental groups of general surfaces and geometric manifolds of higher di...

Some form of migrating process, i.e., a process that can change the node during its execution, is being frequently proposed as a basic component for designing distributed applications. Similarly to distributed applications based on static processes, applications based on processes that can migrate also need forms of reliable cooperation between processes. In order to fulfil part of this require...

Eighty-one cultivars from 12 field crop species were assessed for suitability as hosts to the root lesion nematode, Pratylenchus neglectus, in two field trials. Host status was assessed on the basis of either final P. neglectus densities in soil or multiplication rate under different crops. Both techniques gave consistent results for crop and cultivar ranking, and it was therefore concluded tha...