The seasonal variation in the nutrient composition of Enhydra fluctuans and Marsilea quadrifolia, two edible semi-aquatic plants, was studied in order to promote their consumption as green leafy vegetables. Both plants had a high crude protein content throughout all harvesting seasons. Enhydra fluctuans had a low ash content and was a good source of beta-carotene (3.7 to 4.2 mg/100 g on a fresh...

We present a novel morphing technique to generate pleasing visual effects between 2 topologically varying trees while preserving the topological consistency and botanical meanings of any in-between shapes as natural trees. Specifically, we first efficiently convert leafy trees into botanically inspired chain-lobe representations in an automatic way. With the aid of branching-pattern aware, one-...

the edible leafy vegetables contain nutritional ingredients that are necessary for human health and it is important that nutrients protection be monitored during processing and storage. the aim of this study was to study some organoleptic attributes of a very popular iranian meal named coco-sabzi, which was prepared with a mixture of edible grinded leafy vegetable pre-stored at different frozen...

the objective of this work was to study the responses of two baby lettuce (lactuca sativa l.) cultivars, namely, green paris island and red sanguine, to different nacl concentrations (0, 5, 10, and 20 mm). the study was conducted in a floating system and plants were harvested at the stage of 5-6 leaves, outside leaf 6-10 cm in length (25 and 31 days after sowing for green and red lettuce, respe...

Given an undirected graph G V E the problem of nding a spanning tree T of G with the maximum number of leaves is NP Complete Constant factor approximation algorithms are known for this problem but the problem does not admit a polynomial time approximation scheme unless P NP Kleitman and West gave a lower bound of ln n on the function l n which is de ned as the minimum of the maximum number of l...

The neotropical hepatic flora, predominantly constituted by members of the Jungermanniales and Metzgeriales, includes a disproportionate number of genera which are endemic (over 38) and a number which evidently originated here but have shown slight and in a geological sense, modern dispersal by solitary species. Endemism is confined almost to the Jungermanniales; it is to a large degree of a un...

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of Boerhaviadiffusa extract against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) – induced lipid peroxidation in liver of mice in vitro. Methods: Antioxidant activity of medicinally important plant Boerhaviadiffusawas determined by DPPH – radical scavenging activity. Liver homogenates were prepared and used for various treatments (CCl4 and Boerhaviadi...

The present study was undertaken to assess the beneficial effects of a daily consumption of 8 % freeze-dried red-pigmented leafy lettuce (Lactuca sativa) on CVD. C57BL/6J mice were fed a high-fat high-cholesterol diet supplemented with or without red-pigmented leafy lettuce for 4 weeks. The present results showed that the red-pigmented leafy lettuce-supplemented diet significantly decreased the...