Nowadays, uncontrolled and frequent use of antibiotics may cause emergence of microbial resistanceamong pathogenic agents. Therefore, the use of new synthetic and natural antimicrobial compounds isinevitable. One source of natural compounds in this respect comes from plants. The purpose of this study was to examine the antibacterial effects of peel extracts from sour and sweet pomegranate. Meth...

In this study, the effects of nitrogen fertilizer and plant growth regulator (ethephon) application on leaf chlorophyl, stem height and diameter, stalk yield, total sugar and bioethanol of sweet sorghum were determined. Four nitrogen treatments 0, 100, 200 and 300 Kg Urea ha-1 and four ethephon concentrations 0, 800, 1000, and 1200 ppm were applied on sweet sorghum in a split plot on randomized...

besides the high starch content, sweet potato contains endogenous amylases where the two predominants are - and β-amylases. sweet potato is thought to be a promising source of β -amylase since β -amylase is one of the major protein in the tubers. this investigation has focused on the properties of β amylase from white-flesh sweet potato that has been grown in iran as a potential source for indu...

BACKGROUND Sweet taste preferences are measured by several often correlated measures. OBJECTIVE We examined the relative proportions of genetic and environmental effects on sweet taste preference indicators and their mutual correlations. DESIGN A total of 663 female twins (324 complete pairs, 149 monozygous and 175 dizygous pairs) aged 17-80 y rated the liking and intensity of a 20% (wt/vol...

BACKGROUND Humans have an innate preference for sweet taste, but the degree of liking for sweet foods varies individually. OBJECTIVE The proportion of inherited sweet taste preference was studied. A genome-wide linkage analysis was performed to locate the underlying genetic elements in the genome. DESIGN A total of 146 subjects (32% men, 68% women) aged 18-78 y from 26 Finnish families eval...

In this study, amygdalin contents in the seeds of ten different bitter or sweet apricot cultivars were determined by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for two years. The seeds of apricot cultivars were obtained from the Malatya Fruit Research Institute in Turkey. The results indicated that genetic variation was found among the cultivars. The amygdalin contents of bitter cultivars we...

in order to compare the impact of vegetable oils to improve the efficacy of mesosulfuron-methyl + iodososulfuron - methyl + mefenpyr (atlantis)®, a greenhouse experiment of dose-response as factorial experiment in a completely randomized design including concentration 0, 3/75, 7/5, 15, 22/5, and second factor 30 g a.i. ha-1 of atlantis at 13 levels of with and without vegetable oils (each of tw...