Introduction Beach pea (Lathyrus maritimus [L.] Bigel.), a potential cold-climate circumpolar legume crop, naturally grows along the shorelines of Newfoundland, Canada. It is perennial and persistent for many years, and is resistant to drought and frost. It forms large continuous stands by rhizomes and has prolific seed production. Sometimes, the vegetative parts of beach pea are used as fodder...

1. Treatment ofthe chick embryo with the lathyrus factor, ,-aminopropionitrile, produces inhibition of polymerization of newly synthesized collagen at the interand intra-molecular level (Levene & Gross, 1959; Martin, Gross, Piez & Lewis, 1961); this is manifest as an increase in the fragility and solubility of collagen from the connective tissues. 2. This treatment simultaneously produced incre...

BACKGROUND The use of traditional foods can enrich our diet, perpetuating important elements of local knowledge and cultural inheritance. Raw, soaked and cooked samples of two Fabaceae species (Cicer arietinum L. and Lathyrus sativus L.) were characterized regarding nutritional and bioactive properties. RESULTS L. sativus gave the highest carbohydrate, protein, ash, saturated fatty acid and p...

Fluorescent Pseudomonas, aerobic, Gram-negative bacteria possess many traits that make them well suited as biocontrol and growth promoting agents. Our study revealed that isolates vary in mechanisms involved in the antagonist interactions against pathogen and growth stimulatory effects on host plant. Most of the potential antagonistic fluorescent Pseudomonas identified were avid iron chelators ...

Stories abound about the medical abuses that have come to define medicine and the "pseudo"-neurosciences in the Third Reich. Well known are the Nazi program of euthanasia and the neuroscientific publications that arose from it. Nevertheless, during this widespread perversion of medical practice and science, true medical heroics persisted, even in the concentration camps. In December 1942, inmat...

1. In view of the suggested association between collagen and acid mucopolysaccharides in the connective tissues, this study was designed to see whether the lathyrus factor, beta-aminopropionitrile, affected the acid mucopolysaccharides as well as inhibiting the normal polymerization of collagen. The changing pattern of these two components of cartilage from normal and lathyritic chick embryos a...