Pollinators are facing declines at a global level. One of the main factors driving this decline is insufficient access to floral resources due habitat loss and degradation that can affect both diet generalist species as well those with more restricted preferences. Here we evaluated effect novel mitigation strategy in agricultural ecosystems, Farming Alternative (FAP) on pollen crop pollinators....

s and Abstracting in Knowledge Discovery MARIA PINTO AND F.W. LANCASTER María Pinto, Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. F.W. Lancaster, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois

Carotenoids are well known for their nutritional properties and health promoting effects representing attractive ingredients to develop innovative functional foods, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical preparations. Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) flesh has an intense yellow/orange color owing to the high level of carotenoids, mainly α-carotene, β-carotene, β-cryptoxanthin, lutein and zeaxanthin. There is...

Aphid species, their parasitoids and predators on vegetables (bean, cucumber, eggplant, melon, okra, pepper, pumpkin, tomato watermelon) grown in Erzincan province, Turkey were determined. Surveys carried out at weekly intervals from the seedling period until end of harvest Central Üzümlü districts province 2014-2016. 30-40 plants randomly selected surveys all parts investigated with a magnifie...

The occurrence of viral co-infection is a common phenomenon in cultivated and native plant species and can alter the dynamics of virus infection. In this study, disease progress was examined in single and mixed infections of Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and Bean yellow mosaic virus (BYMV) by measuring the rate of symptom development, disease severity and area under disease progress curve on infe...

introduction: cyclophosphamide is a chemotherapy drug with several side effects on various organs such as male reproductive system that can cause infertility. in this study, we assessed combined effect of ginger and pumpkin extractson rat testis after cp injection. methods: forty adult male rats were randomly divided into 4 groups: the control group received intraperitoneal injection of isotoni...