The word “pumpkin” is derived from the Latin word pepo, which is a botanical term for fruit with a hard rind and fleshy interior. The commonly used scientific name for pumpkins is Cucurbita pepo. But some other cucurbits, such as Cucurbita moschata (e.g., ‘Dickenson’ and ‘Libby Select’, known as processing pumpkin) (Figure 1, B) and Cucurbita maxima, which are winter squash, are also known as p...

In this paper, we describe a different approach to the proof of the nonexistence of homogeneous rotation symmetric bent functions. As a result, we obtain some new results which support the conjecture made in this journal, i.e., there are no homogeneous rotation symmetric bent functions of degree > 2. Also we characterize homogeneous degree 2 rotation symmetric bent functions by using GCD of pol...

Dry root rot (DRR) caused by the fungus Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler, is an emerging disease in chickpea. The disease is often mistaken with other root rots like Fusarium wilt, collar rot and black root rot in chickpea. Therefore, its timely and specific detection is important. Current detection protocols are either based on mycological methods or on protocols involving DNA amplificati...

Root rot diseases remain a major global threat to the productivity of agricultural crops. They are usually caused by more than one type pathogen and thus often referred as root complex. Fungal oomycete species predominant participants in complex, while bacteria viruses also known cause rot. Incorporating genetic resistance cultivated crops is considered most efficient sustainable solution count...

Leaf spots and root rots are major fungal diseases in Camptotheca acuminata that limit cultivation of the plant for camptothecin (CPT), a promising anticancer and antiviral alkaloid. Bioassays showed that pure CPT and flavonoids (trifolin and hyperoside) isolated from Camptotheca effectively control fungal pathogens in vitro, including Alternaria alternata, Epicoccum nigrum, Pestalotia guepinii...

Charcoal rot of sorghum caused by the fungus Macrophomina phaseolina is a root & stalk rot disease of great destructive potential in most sorghum glowing regions. Improved, high yielding cultivars under great management tends to be very susceptible to the disease. M.phaseolina is a common soil borne, non aggressive and plurevourous pathogen that attacks plants. Whose vigor has been reduced by u...

The heritability of thorax length in the cactophilic Drosophila buzzatii was determined for flies from each of 10 rotting cactus cladodes. For each rot, emerging flies were used as parents of progeny reared in the laboratory. The methods used were full sib analysis with the parents mated assortatively and also offspring-parent regression. From this, heritabilities were measured for the laborato...

Here we introduce a class of linear operators called recursive orthogonal transforms (ROTs) that allow a natural implementation on a distributed control network. We derive conditions under which ROTs can be used to represent SO(n) for n¿4. We propose a paradigm for distributed feedback control based on plant matrix diagonalization. To nd an ROT suitable for this task, we derive a gradient ow on...