background and objectives: non-sanitary conditions during the drying, transport and storage stages in the production of spices could introduce mycotoxin contamination. the aim of the current study was to determine the concentration of ochratoxin a (ota) in 92 commercial spices (including red pepper, black pepper, turmeric and cinnamon) imported to iran. materials and methods: ota levels were de...

Plants including pepper, red kidney bean, squash, string bean and tomato, as well as weeds with viral symptoms were collected from five districts in Belize over a three year period with the aim of determining the diversity of the begomoviruses present. Sixty five percent of the samples screened via DNA hybridization produced signals indicative of begomovirus infection. Subsequent PCR amplificat...

introduction: black pepper (piper nigrum l.) is one of the medicinal plants being used to prevent and manage stroke in persian medicine. current findings support its anti-inflammatory, radical scavenging and neuroprotective characteristics. in this study, we aimed to evaluate role of black pepper on functional and histopathological outcomes of stroke in an animal model of mcao. materials and me...

The growing interest in the potential biological activity of polyphenols and flavonoids has highlighted necessity to assess their content fresh dried pepper from Ivory Coast. total polyphenol was determined using Folin-Ciocalteu test flavonoid also measured spectrophotometrically aluminum chloride colorimetric test. results obtained indicate levels peppers are higher samples collected Danane (0...

The trials were designed with three replications in a randomized complete block design order to evaluate the phenological, growth and yield potential of hot pepper varieties such as ‘Mareko fana’, ‘Melka Zala’, Awaze’, Shote’ local check. Significant difference was observed between growing year used varieties. also performed significantly different (p<0.05) for most considered traits study. ...

the aim of this study was to determine the optimum mixture ratios for composting separated cattle manure and pepper plant residues. five 127 liter laboratory-scale bioreactor were used to investigate of separated dairy manure addition on the composting process of greenhouse pepper plant residues. cattle manure is considerably rich in nitrogen. however, composting with cattle manure alone is not...