Watermelon is a satiating fruit supplemented with health promoting components like sugars, antioxidants mainly lycopene, minerals etc. The biochemical composition, including antioxidants, and the specific activities of enzymes of watermelon fruit of four icebox cultivars were compared at their sequential stages of development and ripening and also an attempt has been made to determine their nut...

Oxygen deficiency can occur even in well-aerated substrates as the result of various factors. In crops grown in perlite bags, where perlite is wrapped in a polyethylene film with little surface open to the atmosphere, the dissolved oxygen concentration ([O2]) may be depleted quite rapidly at high growth rates and high substrate temperatures. This situation may occur in spring cycles of greenhou...

The crude oil, crude protein, crude ash, crude fiber, total phenol and antioxidant activity values, peroxide values, specific gravity, the refraxtive index and  acid value of Citrullus lanatus and their oils were determined. Fatty acid composition of seeds belong to both watermelon were determined by Gas Chromotography (GC). These oils are important sources of essential fatty acid,...

The effects of a waiting period at room temperature ( approximately 22 degrees C) before refrigerating fresh-cut watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew pieces contaminated with Salmonella on survival of the inoculated pathogen were investigated. Whole cantaloupes, honeydew melons and watermelons were washed with water, and fresh-cut pieces from individual melons were prepared and inoculated with a...

The present study was taken up with a view to ascertain the possibility of introduction of alcohol resistant bacteria in vitro through the aseptically raised watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) seedlings in the backdrop of isolating such organisms from micropropagated watermelon stocks. Watermelon cv. Arka Manik seedlings grown in vitro from surface-sterilized seeds with the intact seed coat on MS m...

BACKGROUND Oral L-citrulline is efficiently converted to L-arginine, the precursor for endothelial nitric oxide (NO) synthesis. Oral L-arginine supplementation reduces brachial blood pressure (BP). We evaluated the effects of watermelon supplementation on aortic BP and arterial function in individuals with prehypertension. METHODS Heart rate (HR), brachial systolic BP (bSBP), brachial pulse p...