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Keeping in Touch via Cassette: Tracing Dinka Songs from Cattle Camp to Transnational Audio-Letter [PDF]

, 2013
This paper explores Dinka songs as poetic autobiography, focusing in particular on their composition and circulation as audio-letters between South Sudan and the global Dinka diaspora.
Impey, Angela
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Effects of Dual/Threefold Rootstock Grafting on the Plant Growth, Yield and Quality of Watermelon

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2014
To test the feasibility of multi-rootstock grafting, bottle gourd and pumpkin were used as rootstocks in a comparative analysis of the effects of single, dual, and threefold rootstock grafting on the plant growth, fruit yield, and quality of watermelon ...
Yaoguo QIN, Cuiqin YANG, Jialong XIA, Jing HE, Xiaoli MA, Chuanyang YANG, Yangxia ZHENG, Xia LIN, Zhongqun HE, Zhi HUANG, Zesheng YAN   +10 more
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Inhibitory Activities of Polyphenolic Extracts of Bangladeshi Vegetables against α-Amylase, α-Glucosidase, Pancreatic Lipase, Renin, and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme

Foods, 2020
The aim of the study was to determine the in vitro enzyme inhibition activities of aqueous polyphenolic extracts of nine popular Bangladeshi vegetables, namely ash gourd, bitter gourd, brinjal, Indian spinach, kangkong, okra, ridge gourd, snake gourd ...
Razia Sultana, Adeola M. Alashi, Khaleda Islam, Md Saifullah, C. Emdad Haque, Rotimi E. Aluko   +5 more
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Efficacy of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) against Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae) under controlled and open-field conditions on bitter gourd

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2021
Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) (Diptera: Tephritidae) is the most destructive pest of bitter gourd. Conventionally, it is controlled by chemical insecticides despite their hazardous impacts.
A. M. Hamzah, A. Mohsin, M. Naeem, Muhammad Azam Khan   +3 more
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The Gourd as a Spiritual and Cultural Symbol Among the Yi People in Southwest China

Religions
In the Yi ethnic group in southwest China, the gourd is a prominent symbol, collectively imbued with imaginative and spiritual significance. It maintains a profound connection to the Yi people’s way of life, manifested in both ancient mythological ...
Ling Chen
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Effect of Cadmium-Tolerant Rhizobacteria on Growth Attributes and Chlorophyll Contents of Bitter Gourd under Cadmium Toxicity

Plants, 2020
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the heavy metals that negatively affects the growth of plants. High solubilization in water leads Cd to enter into plants quite easily, thus decreasing seed germination, photosynthesis, and transpiration.
M. Zafar-ul-Hye, M. Naeem, Subhan Danish, Muhammad Jamil Khan, S. Fahad, R. Datta, M. Brtnický, A. Kintl, G. Hussain, M. El-Esawi   +9 more
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A simple, flexible, and porous polypyrrole‐wax gourd evaporator with excellent light absorption for efficient solar steam generation

International Journal of Energy Research, 2021
Solar interfacial water evaporation is considered as a potential green technology to solve the global shortage of freshwater resources. However, it is still an arduous task to develop a low‐cost and efficient solar evaporator with a simple preparation ...
Yuanlu Xu, Haichao Mu, Xiaoshi Han, Tianjun Sun, Xinfei Fan, Bowen Lv, Zonglin Pan, Yongxin Song, Chengwen Song   +8 more
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Bitter gourd flavored Non-Alcoholic Wheat Beer (NAWB) exhibited antidiabetic properties by modulating carbohydrate metabolizing enzymes and upregulates insulin and GLUT-2 mRNA expressions in High Fat Diet/Streptozotocin (HFD/STZ) induced diabetic rats

Food Production, Processing and Nutrition, 2023
To improve the control of Type 2 diabetes (T2D), this study investigated the potential benefits of an alcohol-free beer flavored with bitter gourd leaves, a plant with proven hypoglycemic properties.
Gbenga P. Akerele, Bukola C. Adedayo, Ganiyu. Oboh, Opeyemi B. Ogunsuyi, Idowu S. Oyeleye   +4 more
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Identification and Validation of a Core Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Marker Set for Genetic Diversity Assessment, Fingerprinting Identification, and Core Collection Development in Bottle Gourd

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Germplasm collections are indispensable resources for the mining of important genes and variety improvement. To preserve and utilize germplasm collections in bottle gourd, we identified and validated a highly informative core single-nucleotide ...
Ying Wang, Xiaohua Wu, Yanwei Li, Zishan Feng, Zihan Mu, Jiangchun Wang, Xinyi Wu, Baogen Wang, Zhongfu Lu, Guojing Li   +9 more
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De novo assembly and characterization of the transcriptome, and development of SSR markers in wax gourd (Benicasa hispida). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: Wax gourd is a widely used vegetable of Cucuribtaceae, and also has important medicinal and health values. However, the genomic resources of wax gourd were scarcity, and only a few nucleotide sequences could be obtained in public databases ...
Biao Jiang, Dasen Xie, Wenrui Liu, Qingwu Peng, Xiaoming He   +4 more
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