AIM Diospyros Lotus ("Wild Date Palm of Trabzon or Persimmon"), which has been proven to cause phytobezoars, is a widely consumed fruit in the Black Sea and Northeast Anatolia regions of Turkey. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of Diospyros Lotus together with other predisposing factors, on the development of gastrointestinal phytobezoars and to discuss the treatment ...

A new species, Epania gressitti sp. nov., is described. Specimens were intercepted from imported ebony timber (Diospyros sp., Ebenaceae) from Papua New Guinea. A key to Epania species in Papua New Guinea is presented.

Raru is a lesser-known plant species originating from North Sumatra, Indonesia. Information on the characteristics still limited, especially its chemical component. Therefore, this study aims to examine composition information of Cotylelobium lanceolatum, melanoxylon, and Vatica pauciflora woods based their axial log positions (bottom, middle, top). The wood analysis was performed in terms Indo...

From the chloroform extract of the fresh fruits of Diospyros maritima BLUME (Ebenaceae), five new naphthoquinone derivatives, 2,7'-dimethyl-2',3-bijuglone (27), 2,7'-dimethyl-3,3'-bijuglone (28), 2,7'-dimethyl-6,8'-bijuglone (29), 7,7'-dimethyl-3,3'-ethylidenebijuglone (30), and 2',7-dimethyl-3,6'-ethylidenebijuglone (31), were isolated, in addition to twenty-one known naphthoquinone derivative...

Taylor Guitars purchased an ebony mill in Cameroon to ensure corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) in sourcing, and shared the responsibly-sourced supply of ebony with competitors through horizontal sourcing. Inspired by this case, we investigate vertical integration as an alternative strategy for CSER in sourcing in which a firm can vertically integrate with its supplier in ...

Oriental persimmon (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) (2n = 6x = 90) is a major commercial and deciduous fruit tree that is believed to have originated in China. However, rare transcriptomic and genomic information on persimmon is available. Using Roche 454 sequencing technology, the transcriptome from RNA of the flowers of D. kaki was analyzed. A total of 1,250,893 reads were generated and 83,898 unigene...

HE degree of heterozygosity carried by competing genotypes in single generTation cultures of Drosophila meknogaster segregating for ebony (ell) and wild type has been shown to be a factor affecting their relative fitnesses (DAWOOD and STRICKBERGER 1964). Since these results also indicated that the fitness advantages of at least one of the segregating genotypes (+/e) was associated with rapid de...

The aim of this work is to develop a tool to predict some pulp properties e.g., pulp yield, Kappa number, ISO brightness (ISO 2470:2008), fiber length and fiber width, using the sapwood and heartwood proportion in the raw-material. For this purpose, Acacia melanoxylon trees were collected from four sites in Portugal. Percentage of sapwood and heartwood, area and the stem eccentricity (in N-S an...