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...