The nutritional economy of the fruit of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp cv Vita 3) was assessed quantitatively from intake and utilization of carbon, nitrogen, and water. Fruits failed to make net gains of CO(2) from the atmosphere during daytime, although pod photosynthesis did play a role in the fruit's carbon economy by refixing a proportion of the fruit's respired CO(2). Of every 100 un...

For several plant species, brood size results from the abortion of ovules and seeds. However, these processes have rarely been studied together in wild plants. In some of the leguminous species studied, seed abortion has been found to depend on pollen quality and on the position of the ovule or fruit. The direct consequence for the mother plant is that fruit costs increase as the seed:ovule rat...

background and objectives: potato (solanum tuberosum l.) plant is one of leading agricultural products in the world. it is the fourth most cultivated food crop after wheat, rice and maize. planting density and weight of minituber are the factors influencing on the yield and yield components on seed tuber production in potato. plant density strongly affected yield, both by number and by weight a...

Free and bound abscisic acid and neutral growth inhibitors were detected in citrus fruit peel using two bioassays and gasliquid chromatography. None of the inhibitor components seems to be directly associated with chloroplasts or chromoplasts in citrus fruit peel.Green, nonsenescent fruits contain mostly neutral inhibitors and relatively low amounts of free and bound abscisic acid. Upon harvest...

the current experiment was carried out to evaluate qualitative and quantitativeof three melons (cucumis melo gp. ameri) accssions named zardjalal, ananasi and khanoti. the experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with 16 treatments and three replications at research field of jahad-e-daneshgahi, campus of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran. five ...

Reproductive ecology of Agalinis acuta was investigated by examining potential for self-fertilization before and at anthesis, reproductive output from outcrossed vs. selfed matings, and effects of browsing, plant size, and conspecific plant density on seed and fruit production. These features of a plant species can provide indirect information pertinent to conservation such as patterns and main...

Nitrate uptake by roots of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) was measured using (15)NO(3) (-), and the energy cost to the root was estimated by respirometry. Roots of 8-day-old cowpea seedlings respired 0.6 to 0.8 milligram CO(2) per plant per hour for growth and maintenance. Adding 10 millimolar NO(3) (-) to the root medium increased respiration by 20 to 30% during the following 6 hours. This increas...

Bacterial loads of Street served foods and cut fruits sold in open market was assessed. The mean viable plate count was 2.4x107/gm, highest being 7x10 /gm found in meat group foods. Eighteen percent food samples, mostly, either processed foods, carbonated drinks or foods served boiling hot were found sterile. All other foods examined yielded very high standard aerobic plate count per gram, indi...

In the present investigation, the antioxidant activity and free radical scavenging activity of Crambe cordifolia plant were spectrophotometrically studied. Free radical scavenging activity was determined by DPPH method and the obtained IC value was 1106.65 μg/mL. For comparison, the IC value of standard ascorbic acid 50 50 was 21.69 μg/mL. Antioxidant activity was determined by phosphomolybdate...