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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Pawpaw"”.
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Decoding the Flavor of Kentucky's Native Pawpaw Fruit
… to decode the flavor of Asimina triloba, or the pawpaw fruit, to identify and quantitate the aroma-active compounds that are present. Gas chromatography – olfactometry (GC-O) was applied on capillary GC columns with various means of extraction. The volatile compounds present were extracted using …
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Determination of Sensory Characteristics and Antioxidant Capacity of Pawpaw Pulp During Frozen Storage
<p>Pawpaws (Asimina triloba) are the largest wild fruit native to North America. A tropical fruit grown in a temperate climate, pawpaws are typically found on the east coast namely within the Appalachian region. The fresh fruits themselves have never been successfully commercialized because of …
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A biochemical study of some of the hydrolases to be found in the latex of the pawpaw, Carica papaya L
Using fresh papaya latex as the starting material, this thesis describes methods for the isolation and purification of three major proteinases by column adsorption chromatography; a comparative study of certain salient chemical and physical properties of these enzymes is presented. Reference is …
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Effect of pawpaw (Carica Papaya) seed meal on growth performance, feed utilization, survival and masculinization of sexualy undifferentiated three spotted Tilapia (Oreochromis Andersonii) fry
… of the fish fed varying inclusion levels of pawpaw seed meal did not differ significantly from those fed basal diet and 60 mg of MT. A decrease in growth performance and poor feed utilization capacity was observed in the treated fish with increasing dietary C. papaya inclusion levels from 15 …
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INSIGHTS INTO THE GENETIC DIVERSITY OF ASIMINA TRILOBA: A STUDY USING GENOME ASSEMBLY AND POPULATION GENETICS
… the species Asimina triloba, commonly known as pawpaw. To achieve this, we have produced a high-quality reference genome by assembling a draft genome using PacBio's Sequel II long reads and polishing with Illumina short reads. We first used a genotype-by-sequencing (GBS) to genotype 124 …
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Perennial pathways: Planning and establishment practices for edible agroforestry
Agriculture faces the unprecedented task of feeding a world population of 9 billion people by 2050 while simultaneously avoiding harmful environmental and social effects. One effort to meet this challenge has been organic farming, with outcomes that are generally positive. However, a number of …