BACKGROUND Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.), a member of Arecaceae family, is one of the three major economically important woody palms--the two other palms being oil palm and coconut tree--and its fruit is a staple food among Middle East and North African nations, as well as many other tropical and subtropical regions. Here we report a complete sequence of the data palm chloroplast (cp) geno...

This study investigated the effect of different traditional cooking methods on glycemic index (GI) and glycemic response of ten Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars commonly eaten in Jamaica. Matured tubers were cooked by roasting, baking, frying, or boiling then immediately consumed by the ten nondiabetic test subjects (5 males and 5 females; mean age of 27 ± 2 years). The GI varied betwee...

Abstract Adult individuals and seeds of two mixed stands coastal interior Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) were analysed for genetic differentiation between the varieties evidence intervarietal pollination. Clear discrimination was observed based on multilocus evaluation nine microsatellite markers using other known variety composition comparison. Analysis pollination distanc...

This study uses PCR-derived marker systems to investigate the extent and distribution of genetic variability of 53 Garnacha accessions coming from Italy, France and Spain. The samples studied include 28 Italian accessions (named Tocai rosso in Vicenza area; Alicante in Sicily and Elba island; Gamay perugino in Perugia province; Cannonau in Sardinia), 19 Spanish accessions of different types (na...

Relevance. One of the priority areas research at Heterosis Selection LLC is creation varieties and development regional agricultural technology for growing seed material flower crops. The article represents results study intravarietal variability according to 7 structural features marigolds (Tagetes patula L.) cv. Elena Prekrasnaya under conditions Southern Urals. To develop a methodology produ...