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Herbivory reduces plant interactions with above- and belowground antagonists and mutualists. [PDF]
, 2012 Herbivores affect plants through direct effects, such as tissue damage, and through indirect effects that alter species interactions. Interactions may be positive or negative, so indirect effects have the potential to enhance or lessen the net impacts of
Adler, L.S. +4 more
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Plants, 2021 Cucurbita foetidissima and C. radicans are scarcely studied wild pumpkin species that grow in arid and semi-arid areas of Mexico and the United States. This study describes the morphological, proximal composition, metabolic finger-prints and seed protein
Claudia Mejía-Morales +7 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2009 Cucumber plant was infested by three major insect pests, i.e., cotton aphid, white fly nymph and green bugs while globe cucumber, the wild cucumber species was kept healthy without any remarkable infestation. In addition, globe cucumber had higher ratios
Ayman Mohamed KAMEL +1 more
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Drugs and Drug Candidates, 2023 Cucurbitacins are secondary metabolites that are commonly found in the Cucurbitacae family. Many biological properties have been reported for cucurbitacins, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiviral, anti-malaria, and anticancer properties ...
Cheng-Chen Huang +5 more
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Pharmacological properties and phytochemical components of Elaeocarpus: A comparative study
Phytomedicine Plus, 2022 Background: Many species of Elaeocarpus, particularly Elaeocarpus ganitrus and Elaeocarpus sylvestris provide specific bioactive compounds that determine their pharmacological properties.
Susana Elya Sudradjat +1 more
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Gourds and squashes (Cucurbita spp.) adapted to megafaunal extinction and ecological anachronism through domestication. [PDF]
, 2015 The genus Cucurbita (squashes, pumpkins, gourds) contains numerous domesticated lineages with ancient New World origins. It was broadly distributed in the past but has declined to the point that several of the crops' progenitor species are scarce or ...
Clarke, Andrew C +5 more
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Cucurbitacin E Targets Proliferating Endothelia
Journal of Surgical Research, 1997 Tumor vasculature offers a target for drugs directed against proliferating endothelia. We hypothesized that cucurbitacin E (CuE), an actin-disrupting agent, would preferentially inhibit proliferating vs. quiescent endothelia. Log-phase and confluent ECV304 and HUVEC human endothelial cells were exposed to 10-200 nM CuE for 1-96 hr, and toxicity was ...
M D, Duncan, K L, Duncan
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Frontiers in Agronomy, 2021 Plant domestication often reduces plant defenses by selection on chemical and physical defense traits. Thus, it is expected that herbivorous insects perform better on crop varieties than on their wild relatives.
Charlyne Jaccard +6 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2008 A correlation between the levels of secondary and primary plant metabolites and food coefficient parameters with the population density of infested broccoli plants was studied.
Ayman Mohamed KAMEL +1 more
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Natural Bioactive Compounds of Sechium spp. for Therapeutic and Nutraceutical Supplements
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Natural products are in great demand because certain secondary metabolites (SMs) are sources of antioxidants, flavorings, active substances, or anticancer agents with less aggressiveness and selectivity, among which triterpenes and flavonoids are of ...
María Isabel Iñiguez-Luna +11 more
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