Non-crop vegetation associated with chili pepper agroecosystems promote the abundance and survival of aphid predators

the evaluation of language related engagment and task related engagment with the purpose of investigating the effect of metatalk and task typology

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

Chili Pepper Scent: Study and Recognition with Chemiresistors Array

Chili peppers are spices worldwide appreciated and represent a real culinary tradition and cultural identity for several populations. Here we present an effort to evaluate whether an array of chemiresistor gas sensors is capable to distinguish different chili pepper samples by the analysis of the emitted aroma. Our approach is based on two methods. A classical method based on GC-MSSPME to chara...

Molecular Biology of Chili Pepper Anthocyanin Biosynthesis

Chili pepper (Capsicum spp.) is an important horticultural crop worldwide. Chili pepper fruits from different Capsicum species have been highly consumed in Mexico since pre-Columbian times. Some Capsicum species synthesize and accumulate anthocyanins in different tissues and organs. Although the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway has been established for different plant species, very few studies ...

Biodiversity in Agroecosystems: Importance of Non-crop Habitats

relative abundance of turnip aphid and the associated natural enemies on oilseed brassica genotypes

a two-year field study was conducted at punjab agricultural university, ludhiana, india, to study the relative abundance of mustard/turnip aphid, lipaphis erysimi (kaltenbach) (hemiptera: aphididae) and the associated resident natural enemies on 10 different rapeseed-mustard genotypes which included: brassica juncea: rh 7846, rh 9501, rk 9501, jmm 927, purple mutant; b. napus: hyola pac 401 (hy...