In a study of residues from gourd and squash artifacts, we recovered starch grains from manioc (Manihot esculenta), potato (Solanum sp.), chili pepper (Capsicum spp.), arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea), and algarrobo (Prosopis sp.) from feasting contexts at the Buena Vista site, a central Peruvian preceramic site dating to approximately 2200 calendar years B.C. This study has implications for the...

Lipoxidase, in the cotyledons of squash (Cucurbita moscata) seedlings grown in the dark, reached its peak activity on the fifth day and then declined to its lowest activity on the eighth day. Under continuous irradiation, the rate of enzyme disappearance was accelerated by red (655 mmu) and was retarded by far-red (735 mmu) radiation. Acceleration of enzyme disappearance caused by red light was...

Theory of General Relativity is considered from the point of view of its general structure; it has been showed that if one assumes any connection to be a metric connection then Cartan tensor must necessary be completely antisymmetric, and an example of application is considered in the case of Lie group theory. Under a geometrical point of view, Cartan tensor is thought to represent the Torsion ...

Accelerator mass spectrometry age determinations of maize cobs (Zea mays L.) from Guilá Naquitz Cave in Oaxaca, Mexico, produced dates of 5,400 carbon-14 years before the present (about 6,250 calendar years ago), making those cobs the oldest in the Americas. Macrofossils and phytoliths characteristic of wild and domesticated Zea fruits are absent from older strata from the site, although Zea po...

Abstract Background: The fruit of pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima D.), one genus Cucurbita, family Cucurbitaceae, has antioxidant activity due to the content metabolites including amino acids, fatty alpha-tocopherol, beta-tocopherol, beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, and beta-sitosterol. carotenoids tocopherols in activity, reduces skin damage sun exposure, can slow down aging process. Objective: st...

The functional transition of glyoxysomes to leaf peroxisomes occurs during greening of germinating pumpkin cotyledons (Cucurbita sp. Amakuri Nankin). The immunocytochemical protein A-gold method was employed in the analysis of the transition using glyoxysomal specific citrate synthase immunoglobulin G and leaf peroxisomal specific glycolate oxidase immunoglobulin G. The labeling density of citr...

Striped cucumber beetle, Acalymma vittatum F., is the primary insect pest of cucurbit crops in the northeastern United States. Adult beetles colonize squash crops from field borders, causing feeding damage at the seedling stage and transmitting bacterial wilt Erwinia tracheiphila Hauben et al. 1999. Conventional control methods rely on insecticide applications to the entire field, but surroundi...