INTRODUCTION Oxidative stress and carbonyl stress have essential mediatory roles in the development of diabetes and its related complications through increasing free radicals production and impairing antioxidant defense systems. Different chemical and natural compounds have been suggested for decreasing such disorders associated with diabetes. The objectives of the present study were to investi...

HE standard cultivars of cucumbers, Cucumis sativus L., are monoecious. These monoecious plants are male early in development and female later. The standard races exhibit marked differences in the expression of monoecism, ranging from weak to strong male tendency. Available information suggests that these racial differences reflect genetic variations governing rate of sex conversion during plan...

food choice in omnivorous animals is influenced by the balance of nutritional needs, food availability, and quality of a particular food items. here, we study whether omnivorous onion thrips, thrips tabaci lindeman, feed on the eggs of its competitor tetranychus urticae koch (acari: tetranychidae) when an alternative supplemental source is, or is not, available. thrips were either fed a cucumbe...

perature upon bacteriological and chemical changes in fermenting cucumbers. N. Y. State Agr. Expt. Sta. Bull. No. 744, 33 pp. PEDERSON, C. S., AND ALBURY, MI. N. 1953 Factors affecting the bacterial flora in fermenting vegetables. Food Research, 18, 290-300. PEDERSON, C. S., AND WARD, L. 1949 The effect of salt upon the bacteriological and chemical changes in fermenting cucumbers. N. Y. State A...

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruit is a type of fleshy fruit that is harvested immaturely. Early fruit development directly determines the final fruit length and diameter, and consequently the fruit yield and quality. Different cucumber varieties display huge variations of fruit length, but how fruit length is determined at the molecular level remains poorly understood. To understand the genes...

A phenotypic segregation of kanamycin resistance conferred by nosnptII was investigated in two groups of transgenic cucumber lines one containing the PR-2duidA-nosnptII construct and the other with the thaumatinII-nosnptII construct to the third and fifth generation, respectively. Expression of the nptII gene was more stable and predictable in the progeny of the PR-2d lines than that of thaumat...

In cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants, it has been reported that a high correlation existed between the evolution of ethylene from the apices and the development of female flowers. We isolated three distinct cDNA encoding 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase from cucumber. Among of these, only CS-ACS2 mRNA was detected at the apices of gynoecious cucumber in which female flowers w...

Presently there is an increase in the use of chemicals for cultivation plants. This has affected general health consumers. The aim this current study to assess germination, growth and yield Cucumis sativus using homoeopathic Biochemic medicines Calcarea phosphoricum 3X, sulphurica 3X Silicea 3X. Total 40 samples were used, dividing them into 4 groups 10 each randomly. intervention Placebo, admi...