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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Melon"”.
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Contextual engineering for sustainable Kalahari melon oil extraction in rural Namibia
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Archaeological seeds and local varieties of edible fruits: morphology through time
… fruits and edible vascular plants. Remains of melon and mulberry were identified being the earliest remains of these two species for Western Europe. [CHAPTER 2] concerns the plant remains contained in some Phoenician-Punic amphorae dated to the 6th-5th and the 3rd-2nd century BC century BC …
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Optimización del Abonado Nitrogenado en el Melón (Cucumis Melo L.) Tipo Piel de Sapo
Spain is the fifth-largest producer of melon (Cucumis melo L.) and the second exporter in the world. To a national level, Castilla-La Mancha emphasize and, specifically, Ciudad Real, where is cultivated 27% of national area dedicated to this crop and 30% of melon national production. Melon crop is …
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Incorporating powdery mildew resistance into a winter type muskmelon
… cichoracearum</i> DC into the Ambrosia muskmelon, a melon of the Casaba or winter type. First generation hybrid (F1), first generation backcross (B1) and second generation inbred (F2) plants were grown to maturity at Blacksburg and Warsaw, Virginia. On the basis of the data obtained the …
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Detection of Acidovorax citrulli, the Causal Agent of Bacterial Fruit Blotch Disease of Cucurbits, Prevention via Seed Treatments and Disease Resistance Genes
Melon (Cucumis melo L.) and watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum and Nakai) belong to the family Cucurbitaceae. Bacterial fruit blotch (BFB) disease of cucurbits is an economically devastating plant disease that has caused an estimated loss of up to $450M on watermelon crops and $75M …
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Comparative analysis of antioxidant properties, quality attributes and yield of organically and conventionally grown melons (Cucumis melo L.) and tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.)
Fresh fruits and vegetables including melons and tomatoes have gained considerable prominence in the American diet due to increasing awareness of their potential health and nutrition benefits. Consumers are starting to take a closer look not only at organoleptic qualities but also at nutritional …
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Asociación de cultivos en horticultura para incrementar la productividad agraria y los servicios ecosistémicos
… intercropping systems, specifically between melon-cowpea and broccoli-fava bean, along with reduced tillage and addition of crop residues, all under organic management, compared to their respective monocultures. The investigations aimed to enhance crop yield and quality, improve soil …
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Post-harvest spray treatments to reduce Salmonella contamination on cantaloupe surfaces
… were applied 15 min before pathogen inoculation. Melon plugs were submerged in Butterfield's Phosphate Buffer, shaken, sonicated and solutions were enumerated on Tryptic Soy Agar. The texture quality and color of additional melon samples were evaluated after delmopinol or CPC spray treatments and …
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NMR Kristallographie in der Strukturaufklärung von mikro- und semikristallinen Materialien: Entwicklung und Anwendung
… zur Lokalisation von Protonen ermöglichte im Melon die Identifizierung der Untereinheiten und des Verknüpfungsmusters. Bei der Cyamelursäure wurde neben der isotropen chemischen Verschiebung auch die Anisotropie verwendet, welche sich als äußerst aussagekräftig erwiesen hat. In Kombination mit …
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Agroecosystem management strategies and trophic interactions among herbivores, pathogens and predators
… chili pepper crops (Capsicum frutescens) and melon (Cucumis melo var cantalupensis) represented by small fields and high susceptibility to pests. Interactions between natural enemies were studied in microcosms in greenhouse. Therefore, the goal of this thesis was to evaluate the role of …
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Application of Big Data Analytics in Agriculture Supply Chain Management
… application of this model is illustrated with a melon packaging industry.</p>
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Profiling studies of five Namibian indigenous seed oils obtained using three different extraction methods
… oils studied were Citrullus lanatus (Kalahari melon) oil, Schinziophyton rautanenii (Schinz) Radcl.-Sm. (Manketti) nut oil, Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich) Hochst. (Marula) nut oil, Ximenia americana (Blue sour plum) nut oil and Acanthosicyos horridus Welw. ex Hook.f. (!Nara) oil. Significant …
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Learning of Dietary Cues By Embryos and Larvae of Ringed Salamanders (Ambystoma Annulatum)
… exposure to brine shrimp and to a novel scent (melon). Larvae that were exposed to brine shrimp as embryos were more attracted to both stimuli and contacted the brine shrimp stimulus more frequently. This experiment shows that embryos can alter their post-hatching behavior based upon the food …
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Sustainable Approaches to Enhance Water Productivity in Cucumis melo
… three sustainable approaches to increase CWP in melons (Cucumis melo L.) under high desert conditions: (1) the effect of melon grafting on yield using squash hybrid rootstocks, (2) determining the physiological transition from water-consumptive to water-conservative (impaired photosynthetic …
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EFFECTS OF THE SANTA FE FARMERS' MARKET CHILDREN'S NUTRITION PROGRAM ON STUDENTS' WILLINGNESS TO TRY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
… (fresh apple, dried apple, cantaloupe, canary melon, sunflower sprouts and radish sprouts) between the WillTry pre- and post-test was evaluated using the Wilcoxan Sign Rank test. Responses regarding willingness to try these eight foods were also compared between the Student Notebook and the …
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Ludwig Zinzendorf's political economy in the Habsburg monarchy, 1750-1774
… intellectual development, Jean-François Melon and Vincent de Gournay in particular, is the subject of chapter two. Chapter three is devoted to Zinzendorf’s German translation of John Law’s Money and Trade. The development of Zinzendorf’s ideas on state credit, notably the creation of a …
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Chemical Manipulation of Honey Bee Behavior
… in a high-tunnel experiment as well as from melon flowers and knapweed in field experiments. Electroantennogram recordings were conducted to verify an olfactory response of the bees to the tested compounds. Pheromonal compounds were readily detected by bee antennae; whereas, the HCAs did not …
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Sancho Panza: Su conducta y sus motivos
<p>This dissertation meticulously traces and analyzes the behavior and motivations of Sancho Panza throughout <em>El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha and Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha. </em>To date, seemingly all criticism of Sancho has studied him on the …
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Investigating sensory characteristics and flavor profiles of ten cucumber cultivars using descriptive and sensory instrumental analysis
… and sweet notes, while UW02 and UW08 had high melon, waxy, umami, and juicy notes. UW10 and UW07 were most crispy, while UW01 was bitter, sour, and salty. Major identified volatiles were C6 and C9 compounds. Flesh possessed the highest amount of total volatiles, compared to peel. UW10 had the …
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Conversion of triacylglycerols into monoacylglycerols by penicillium roquefortii
… roquefortii, FRR 2456 (isolated from a spoilt melon) and Wisbey PJ (a commercial dairy strain) A semi-micro method was developed using Preparative Thin Layer Chromatography (PTLC) and Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) of the MAG trimethylsilyl ether derivatives to determine the …
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