A protocol for in vitro cloning of mature plants of Citrus limon using nodal shoot segments has been developed. Three to four shoots were induced per axillary meristems on MS medium amended with 9 μM BAP. Repeated transfer of the initial explants for up to six passages on MS medium [having 50% of the original concentrations of NH4NO3 and KNO3, and supplement of 250 mg L (NH4)2SO4] with 0.22 μM ...

Sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid are the most important indicators of fruit taste and nutritional and organoleptic quality. These components were studied on fruit pulp of the cybrid between Willow leaf mandarin ( Citrus deliciosa Ten.) and Eureka lemon [ Citrus limon (L.) Burm.] and the two parents. The cybrid possessed nuclear and chloroplast genomes of Eureka lemon plus mitochondria from W...

Diaphorina citriKuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) carriesCandidatus liberibacter spp., the putative causal agents of Huanglongbing. D. citri reproduces and develops only on the ßushing shoots of its rutaceous host plants. Here we examined whetherD. citri is attracted to host plant odors and a mixture of synthetic terpenes. Tests conducted in a vertically oriented Y-tube olfactometer showed that b...

Inhibitory activity of thirty-one ethanol extracts obtained from albedo, flavedo, seed and leaf parts of 17 cultivars of Citrus species from Turkey, the bark and leaves of Olea europaea L. from two locations (Turkey and Cyprus) as well as caffeic acid and hesperidin was tested against acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), related to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's diseas...

currently cancer is considered as one of the main factors of mortality globally. many chemicals in our environment can cause genetic mutations and are potentially responsible for millions of cancer-related deaths. nowadays the scientists are looking for food materials which can potenthially prevent the cancer occurrence. the purpose of this research is to examine antimutagenicity and anticancer...

Neoseiulus californicus was first reported in 1954 in California where it was collected from lemon trees (de Moraes et al. 2004). The predatory mite is distributed all over the world, both in arid and humid areas of sub-tropical and temperate zones. It was collected in Texas (USA), Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Japan, Taiwan (introduced), Portugal, Italy, Fr...

Recently, use of different plant extracts for the green synthesis CdS nanoparticles has appealed significant attention throughout world. The components contained in antioxidant rich citrus fruits e.g. orange and lemon have attracted due to their chemical biological properties. To date, using limon extract as a surface functionalizing agent not been explored. In present study reliable method was...