Viruses are the most common causes of diseases affecting cucurbits in New York. These diseases result in losses through reduction in growth and yield and are responsible for distortion and mottling of fruit , making the product unmarketable. A complex of viruses is able to infect cucurbits, a plant group that includes cucumber , melon , squash, pumpkins , and watermelon. The most important viru...

In this study, total phenolic contents and antioxidant activity were determined in various products made from two cultivars of jamman fruit (Eugenia jambolana) i.e. improved (V1) indigenous (V2). Five each cultivar such as jam, squash, ready-to-drink juice, pulp powder seed powder. Fruit endogenous to the typical region Sindh-Pakistan. Total analyzed by Folin-Ciocalteu colorimetric method, wher...

“Superbug Strikes in City” sounds like a horror movie title, but instead it is a headline printed in the October 26, 2007, edition of the New York Post. Twelve days earlier a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy, Omar Rivera, died after a wound he received on the basketball court became infected with methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that has become resistant to one of the most...

Squash rackets is a game played at a fast pace, popular in over fifty countries, with an estimated half million players in Great Britain alone. It is played between two, or occasionally four, players in an enclosed court of specified dimensions, using rackets similar to but smaller than a tennis racket, and with a hollow black rubber ball I} in. in diameter and i oz. in weight. There has been a...

The melonworm, Diaphania hyalinata L. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), is one of the most serious insect problems affecting cucurbit production. We evaluated the relative preference and suitability of yellow squash, zucchini, cucumber, and watermelon to melonworm by measuring its oviposition, larval feeding preference, survivorship, and developmental responses in the laboratory. Whole plants were used...

Averrhoa carambola commonly known as Star Fruit and “Chmarakh” in local language of Himachal Pradesh. It has a lot medicinal properties but the fruit remains neglected hence there is need to concentrate on diversification popularization such an un-exploited fruit. Carambola used pulp further formulated into different forms like RTS, butter, squash, toffee, chutney bar. Sensory evaluation was co...

A laboratory experiment was conducted for “Preparation and evaluation of processed products Squash, Syrup Ready-To-Serve from seedless lemon (Citruc limon Burm) fruits.” The in order to avoid the postharvest losses, glut utilize surplus during season, it is necessary process fruits various products. were analyzed chemical composition organoleptic qualities. total soluble solids remained constan...