Energy consumption is on the rise due to rapid technological progress and a higher standard of living. The use alternative energy resources essential meet rising demand mitigate carbon emissions caused fossil-based fuels. Biodiesel produced from non-edible oils such as castor seed oil (CO) can be used in diesel engines replace fossil diesel. However, quality yields for CO biodiesel low presence...

optimizing the herbicide dose by the addition of adjuvants is an acceptable way to increase performance and to reduce the risk of side effects from herbicides. therefore, to detect a suitable adjuvant for clodinafop-propargyl against little seed canary grass (phalaris minor retz.). greenhouse experiment were conducted as factorial in completely randomized design with four replications for compa...

A putative citrus vacuolar processing thiolprotease cDNA (Cit-vac) was isolated from a cDNA library of Citrus fruits (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck var Washington navel). The cDNA is 58 and 57% identical with vacuolar processing seed proteases from castor bean and soybean, respectively. The Citvac sequence shows a typical signal peptide for entering into the endoplasmic reticulum and two glycosylat...

Enolase activity was measured in clarified homogenates of various tissues during the life cycle of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis L. cv Baker 296). The proportions of total activity due to the plastid and cytosolic isozymes were determined after separation by ion-exchange chromatography. The contribution of the plastid isozyme varied from more than 30% of the total at the midpoint of en...

Activities of the cytosolic and plastid isozymes of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase from developing endosperm of Ricinus communis L. seeds were inhibited in vitro by hexosebisphosphates. Inhibition constants for glucose 1,6-bisphosphate were 221 and 209 micromolar for the cytosolic and plastid isozymes, respectively, and corresponding values for fructose 2,6-bisphosphate were 10.5 and 8.6 micr...

A list of the Castor stream members is compiled based on the data from various authors. The membership probabilities for some stars are revised based on the individual apex, multiplicity, observational errors, and peculiarity. The apex of the Castor moving group is determined using the apex diagram method. The parameters of the Castor and Ursa Major streams are compared and the positions of the...