It has been reported that ethylene production by cucumber plants is strongly related to the sex expression of their flowers. It has also been shown that both CS-ACS2 gene expression and ethylene evolution are much greater in gynoecious cucumber plants than monoecious ones. To investigate the action mechanism of ethylene in the induction of femaleness of cucumber flowers, we isolated three ethyl...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) fermentation on the texture and organic acid of pickled cucumbers. Texture and sensory evaluation as well as a microscopic observation were performed to study the textural differences among fresh cucumber, Spontaneous fermentation (SF) cucumber and LAB Inoculating Fermentation (LABIF) cucumber. Accumulation of seve...

Aphis gossypii Glover is one of the most important pests of greenhouse cucumber and pepper in the world and Iran. In this research, life table and biology of A. gossypii were investigated on cucumber (Cucumis sativus cv. Super Sultan) and pepper (Capsicum annum cv. Marqueza) in a growth chamber at 25±1°C and 60±5% RH and a photoperiod of 14 L: 10 D hour. The results showed that developmental ti...

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is one of the most important vegetables and contains a high content of nutritionally beneficial metabolites. However, little is known about the metabolic variations among different parts of cucumber fruit and their kinetics during growth. In this study, the dynamic metabolic profiles in the stylar end, the intermediate segment and the peduncular end of cucumber fru...

BACKGROUND Although beneficial to health, dietary phytonutrients are bitter, acid and/or astringent in taste and therefore reduce consumer choice and acceptance during food selection. Momordica charantia, commonly known as bitter melon has been traditionally used in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine to treat diabetes and its complications. The aim of this study was to develop bitter melon-containi...

cyanogenesis in prunus species produces‎‏ ‏cyanogenic glycosides such as‏ ‏monoglycoside ‎prunasin and digelicosede amygdalin. despite the mechanism of almond bitterness inheritance ‎has been known, biosynthesis cycle of cyanogenic compounds among different genotypes is still ‎unclear. total soluble proteins of fruits was extracted from collected sweet and bitter almond ‎genotypes and was studi...

Basic taste qualities like sour, salty, sweet, bitter and umami serve specific functions in identifying food components found in the diet of humans and animals, and are recognized by proteins in the oral cavity. Recognition of bitter taste and aversion to it are thought to protect the organism against the ingestion of poisonous food compounds, which are often bitter. Interestingly, bitter taste...

The integrated management of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plays a key role in guaranteeing the high quality and safety of cucumber production. This paper describes an attempt to develop a web-based GAP management information system for cucumber. Through applying the system methodology and mathematical modeling technique to analyzing the dynamic relationshi...

Bitter compounds elicit an aversive response. In Drosophila, bitter-sensitive taste neurons coexpress many members of the Gr family of taste receptors. However, the molecular logic of bitter signaling is unknown. We used an in vivo expression approach to analyze the logic of bitter taste signaling. Ectopic or overexpression of bitter Grs increased endogenous responses or conferred novel respons...