Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) is a seed crop of the Andean highlands and Araucanian coastal regions of South America that has recently expanded in use and production beyond its native range. This is largely due to its superb nutritional value, consisting of protein that is rich in essential amino acids along with vitamins and minerals. Quinoa also presents a remarkable degree of tolerance to sali...

Radical scavenging and antioxidant activities of nine flavonoids previously isolated from the aerial parts of Chenopodium bonus-henricus L. were established using DPPH and ABTS free radicals as well as inhibition of lipid peroxidation in a linoleic acid system by the ferric thiocyanate method. Patuletin glycosides, compounds 1, 2 and 7 showed the highest DPPH (85.78%, 85.59%, 86.07%) and ABTS a...

The water-extractable (QWP) and the alkali-extractable (QAP) polysaccharides from quinoa (named QWP and QAP, respectively) and their four polysaccharide sub-fractions (QWP-1, QWP-2, QAP-1 and QAP-2), were isolated and purified by anion-exchange and gel filtration chromatography. QWP-1 and QWP-2 were composed of Rha, Ara, Gal and GalA. QAP-1 and QAP-2 were composed of Rha, Ara, Man, Gal and GalA...

Melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) is an animal hormone synthesized predominantly at night. It often serves as a signal of darkness that regulates circadian rhythmicity and photoperiodism. Melatonin has also been found in algae and higher plants, including the short-day flowering plant Chenopodium rubrum. To test its involvement in plant photoperiodism, melatonin solutions were applied to...

Jutta Thiemann and Wolfgang Barz Institut für Biochemie und Biotechnologie der Pflanzen, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Hindenburgplatz 55, D-48143 Münster, Bundesrepublik Deutschland Z. Naturforsch. 49 c, 186-194 (1994); received June 25/December 16,1993 Herbicide Resistance, Selection Mechanism, Photoautotrophic Cell Culture, Chenopodium rubrum For establishing metribuzin-resistant, photo...

We extend a technique for lower-bounding the mixing time of card-shuffling Markov chains, and use it to bound the mixing time of the Rudvalis Markov chain, as well as two variants considered by Diaconis and Saloff-Coste. We show that in each case Θ(n log n) shuffles are required for the permutation to randomize, which matches (up to constants) previously known upper bounds. In contrast, for the...

one or only a few more species of parasites. Moreover, some of the effec ive remedies such as oil of chenopodium, carbon tetrachloride etc have only limited use owing to various contraindications. Thus an ideal anthelmintic with a broad sphere of action, safe and non-toxic, well-tolerated and preferably cheap is yet to be found out. The oil extracted from the shell of cashewnut (Anacardium occi...

In previous work, we have developped methods to compute norms and spectral radii of transition operators on proper metric spaces. The operators are assumed to be invariant under a locally compact, amenable group which acts with compact quotient. Here, we present several further applications of those methods. The first concerns a generalization of an identity of Hardy, Littlewood and Pólya. The ...

This study demonstrates the value of legacy literature and historic collections as a source of data on environmental history. Chenopodium vulvaria L. has declined in northern Europe and is of conservation concern in several countries, whereas in other countries outside Europe it has naturalised and is considered an alien weed. In its European range it is considered native in the south, but the ...