BACKGROUND AND AIMS Watermelons, Citrullus species (Cucurbitaceae), are native to Africa and have been cultivated since ancient times. The fruit flesh of wild watermelons is watery, but typically hard-textured, pale-coloured and bland or bitter. The familiar sweet dessert watermelons, C. lanatus, featuring non-bitter, tender, well-coloured flesh, have a narrow genetic base, suggesting that they...

the catch composition of the bottom trawl fishery along the coasts of karataş was evaluated in the 2002-2003 fishing season. a total of 110 species were registered, the fishes showed the highest diversity (90 species) followed by 15 crustaceans species and 5 species of cephalopods. the highest catch per unit effort (cpue) value (66.8 kg h -1 ) was recorded in september when the fishing season w...

Pinna nobilis is distributed in the northwest area of Mediterranean and Aegean Sea. In this study, on 9 September 2020, one specimen nobilis, pen shell, was observed during scuba diving at a depth 16 m off Samandag coast (36.259444° N, 35.810111° E), northeastern we for first time P. from Coast Turkey, coast. region, presence has never been previously recorded, new record confirms location

This paper describes the co-design methodology created by the authors to partner with communities that have historical trauma associated with working with outsiders on projects that involved substantial use of engineering and science—renewable energy technologies, for example—that have not integrated their value system or has been historically denied to them. As a case study, we present the les...

Industrial effluents, agricultural runoff, and municipal wastewaters contain unknown substances complex mixtures that are released into the environment can lead to contamination of surface subsurface waters. Such activities have endangered existence ecosystems their inhabitants. Changes in genome caused by genotoxic agents led mutations pose a burden populations fish species. In present study, ...