The enormous diversity of seed traits is an intriguing feature and critical for the overwhelming success of higher plants. In particular, seed mass is generally regarded to be key for seedling development but is mostly approximated by using scanning ...
African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM
Aug 12, 2016
BACKGROUND: (family- Solanaceae), has a long history of being used as herbal medicine. These medicinal effects have been attributed to the phytochemicals present in the plant leaves and seeds, in particular alkaloids, flavonoids and phenolic compoun...
Momordica charantia L., a vegetable crop with high nutritional value, has been used as an antimutagenic, antihelminthic, anticancer, antifertility, and antidiabetic agent in traditional folk medicine. In this study, the antifungal activity of M. char...
This study was carried out for rapid and noninvasive determination of the class of sorghum species by using the manifold dimensionality reduction (MDR) method and the nonlinear regression method of least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) combi...
A low molecular weight serine protease from seeds of Citrullus colocynthis was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity with high level of catalytic efficiency (22,945 M(-1) S(-1)). The enzyme was a monomer with molecular mass of 25 kDa estimated by S...
Seed viability, a key indicator for quality assessment, directly impacts the emergence of field seedlings. The existing nondestructive testing model for maize seed vitality based on naturally aged seeds and predominantly relying on single-modal data ...
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Jun 1, 2025
The rapid identification of coffee species and origin is critical for ensuring quality control and authenticity in the coffee industry. This study explores the use of an affordable multi-channel spectral sensor, AS7265X (410-940 nm), combined with ma...
Analytical methods : advancing methods and applications
May 29, 2025
Healthy development of the maize seed industry plays a key role in the effective supply of agricultural products and ensures national food security. Thermal damage to seeds significantly affects crop yield, seed vitality and nutritional value, making...
In order to improve the utilization efficiency of corn seeds and meet the demand of single-seed seeding technology in agriculture, this study was conducted to explore the effect of freezing damage detection on the endosperm and embryo sides of single...
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