Fresh fruits promote good health but harbor a wide range of microbial contaminants. This study assessed the microbial quality of fruits and safety of Polyethylene packed sliced fruits sold in Port-Harcourt markets. 36 samples of freshly cut fruit comprising of Pawpaw (Carica papaya), Pineapple (...

Lipid droplet-associated proteins (LDAPs) play essential roles in tissue growth and development and in drought stress responses in plants. Cotton is an important fiber and cash crop; however, the LDAP family has not been characterized in cotton. In this study, a total of 14, six, seven, and seven...

A WRI family regulator gene named CpWRI3 was cloned from papaya fruit. Amino acid sequence alignment and evolutionary analyses showed that CpWRI3 has high homology with AtWRI3/4. Transcriptional factor activity analysis showed that CpWRI3 has transcriptional activate function. The expression level...

Papaya is a nutritious fruit cultivated worldwide under suitable climate conditions. This plant is polygamous, bearing female, male, and hermaphrodite sex types determined by sex chromosomes XX, XY, and XYh, respectively. In this paper, a molecular sex determination of papaya var. 'Maradol' was...

A field experiment was conducted at Eswargere village, Hiriyur taluk, Chitradurga district during the year 2020-2021 to assess the effects of split application of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) fertilizer on papaya growth and yield, and the experiment was set up in Randomized Complete...

Maize weevils (Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky) are commonly stored grain pests of economic importance in several parts of Africa. A huge amount of synthetic pesticides is being used for the management of crop pests, which have many negative effects on the biotic and abiotic components of the...

Objective: The transcription factor CpWRKY 11 of papaya induced by Colletotrichum brevisporum was cloned and its expression characteristics in biotic stress, exogenous hormone treatments and abiotic stress were studied to provide support for subsequent application of CpWRKY 11 in molecular breeding ...

Carotenoid bioaccessibility is an important predictor of absorption and provitamin A intake. Humans do not synthesize carotenoids which need to be acquired from the diet, mainly from green leafy vegetables and fruits with colors from yellow to red. The carotenoid composition of five industrialized...

Worldwide, P. marginatus causes 75% of estimated economic loss in papaya farming, with an increase in production costs. The extract of plant essential oils (PEO) has the potential to control P. marginatus by degrading its wax coatings to death; however, it is less studied in the East African...

In this paper, a couple of pretreatments were applied to raw cheese whey to increase its biodegradability in an anaerobic reactor. The first stage consisted of coagulation/flocculation using Carica papaya seeds as a biocoagulant, and the second stage was a study of Fenton and photo-Fenton...