This study tested whether soil-applied biochar can impact the seed germination and attachment of root parasitic weeds. Three hypotheses were evaluated: (i) biochar adsorbs host-exuded signaling molecules; (ii) biochar activates plants' innate system-wide defenses against invasion by the parasite; and (iii) biochar has a systemic influence on the amount of seed germination stimulant produced or ...

The antioxidant activity of two plants - Hadjod i.e. Cissus quadrangularis (CQ) and Hingot i.e. Balanites aegyptiaca (BA) was determined by the thiocyanate method. The antioxidant activity of both the plants increased with increasing amount of extract (200 g-1000 g) added to the linoleic emulsion. The ethanolic extract of CQ was more effective than the other. Like antioxidant activity, the redu...

Traditionally, inorganic chemical-based fertilizers is used for soil management strategies, which can cause public health and environmental threats. Alternatively, bio-fertilizer be to increase the productivity sustainability of without causing pollution. The present study aimed cost-effectively produce using agricultural residues determine shelflife efficacy bioinoculants. We sterilized rice h...

In this paper, we present the pseudo-collision, pseudo-second-preimage and pseudo-preimage attacks on the SHA-3 candidate algorithm Luffa. The pseudocollisions and pseudo-second-preimages can be found easily by computing the inverse of the message injection function at the beginning of Luffa. We explain in details the pseudo-preimage attacks. For Luffa-224/256, given the hash value, only 2 iter...

In the present paper the systematic enumeration of Cucurbit germplasm of Bihar State has been described. The three genera recorded from field were Luffa, Momordica and Trichosanthes. Three species of Luffa, five species of Momordica and three species of Trichosanthes were collected and described in detail.

Indifferentiability is currently considered to be an important security notion for a cryptographic hash function to instantiate Random Oracles in different security proofs. In this paper, we prove indifferentiability of Fugue and Luffa, two SHA3 second round candidates. We also analyze the indifferentiability of a modified Luffa mode replacing multiple small permutations by a single large permu...

Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years, herbal medicines which formed the basis of health care throughout the world since the earliest days of mankind are still widely used. Luffa acutangula is widely growing vegetative climber and is used traditionally in folklore medicines for ailments including jaundice, diabetes, liver diseases, skin diseases, wounds etc. Taking...

Luffa is a new hash algorithm that has been accepted for round two of the NIST hash function competition SHA-3. Computational efficiency is the second most important evaluation criteria used to compare candidate algorithms. In this paper, we describe a fast software implementation of the Luffa hash algorithm for the Intel Core 2 Duo platform. We explore the use of the perfect shuffle operation ...

Propionic acid production from glycerol was studied using Propionibacterium acidipropionici DSM 4900 cells immobilized on polyethylenimine-treated Poraver (PEI-Poraver) and Luffa (PEI-Luffa), respectively. Using PEI-Luffa, the average productivity, yield and concentration of propionic acid from 40 g L(-1) glycerol were 0.29 g L(-1) h(-1), 0.74 mol(PA) mol(Gly)(-1) and 20 g L(-1), respectively, ...

Background: Despite the medicinal importance of Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Del, Stevia rebaudiana (Bert.) Bertoni, Tylophora indica (Burm.f.) Merrill and Cassia sophera (Linn.), the antimicrobial potential of these plants has not been explored extensively, especially those of Cassia sophera. Methods: Both aqueous and alcoholic extracts of various parts of respective plants, and their in vitro ra...