Carotenoids are a family of natural fat-soluble nutrients important for antioxidant defense (Packer, 1992, 1993; Cadenas and Packer, 2002) found throughout the plant kingdom. They are responsible for the red, orange or yellow color of many fruits and vegetables, such as pineapples, citrus fruits, peaches, nectarines, persimmons, tomatoes, papaya, apricots, carrots, watermelons, pumpkins, squash...

We derive new results for the number of star and watermelon configurations of vicious walkers in the presence of an impenetrable wall by showing that these follow from standard results in the theory of Young tableaux, and combinatorial descriptions of symmetric functions. For the problem of n-friendly walkers, we derive exact asymptotics for the number of stars and watermelons both in the absen...

This short note adds some results in parallel to those given in [1] on the random variable height on the set of watermelons with wall. In this paper we prove weak convergence results for the random variables “height” and “range” on the set of watermelons without wall restriction, as well as asymptotics for the moments of the random variable height. The techniques applied are quite similar to th...

Abstract. We generalize the classical work of de Bruijn, Knuth and Rice (giving the asymptotics of the average height of Dyck paths of length n) to the case of p– watermelons with a wall (i.e., to a certain family of p nonintersecting Dyck paths; simple Dyck paths being the special case p = 1.) We work out this asymptotics for the case p = 2 only, since the computations involved are already qui...

HIGHLIGHTS Withering and silage of water-rich waste watermelons. Waste watermelon slices wilt in 444.38 583.13 minutes two different systems. Making microbially safe for animals by wilting Combined solar drying system is more advantageous terms withering parameters.

In this study, the characteristics of tetraploid and diploid watermelon’s flowers, fruits, seeds were examined, their differences investigated. As plant material, ST101 ST82; WL92, WL124, WL134, WL216, WL259-B WL235 used. Flower (pollen viability, pollen germination, number anthers per anther flower); fruit (weight, length, diameter, rind thickness TSS) seed (weight 1000 seed, width, thickness,...