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Occurrence and Human Health Implications of Legacy Organochlorine Pesticides and Their Metabolites in Fruits and Vegetables of Bangladesh

open access: yesFood Safety and Health, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 359-373, April 2026.
Multiple OCP isomers and/or metabolites along with their parent compounds were detected in commonly consumed fruits and vegetables of Bangladesh, possibly attributed to both recently and historically applied OCPs. However, all the detected values were below 0.01 mg/kg, indicating no potential human health risks through dietary intake. ABSTRACT Globally,
Kazi Sanjana Adnen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Figleaf Gourd and White-Seeded Pumpkin Genotypes as Promising Rootstocks for Cucumber Grafting

open access: yesHorticulturae
Rootstocks are vital in cucumber production. Although figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia) is among the species used, its application remains limited due to the perception that white-seeded pumpkin (C. maxima × C.
Gengyun Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does information network affect spread of new crops? A study on the spread of bitter gourd and sunflower cultivation among the farmers of a Sunderbans island in West Bengal, India [PDF]

open access: yes
Adoption research for many years has considered individual farmer as the basis of analysis, whereas the effect of networks governing a farmer’s decision-making has received limited attention.
Basu, Debabrata, Goswami, Rupak
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Field Evaluations of Herbicides on Vegetable, Small Fruit, and Ornamental Crops, 2000, 2001, & 2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Field evaluations of herbicides provide the chemical industry, governmental agencies, such as IR-4, and the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station with an evaluation of herbicide performance on small fruit, vegetable, and ornamental crops grown under ...
Lovelace, Mike L.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Yield, Evapotranspiration, Production Functions, Crop Coefficients, Water Productivity and Soil‐Water Extraction of Three Watermelon Varieties

open access: yesIrrigation and Drainage, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 479-497, April 2026.
ABSTRACT While watermelon is an important commodity in the United States and worldwide, some of the fundamental watermelon productivity indices (crop evapotranspiration [ETc], transpiration [Tr], evaporation [E], ET‐yield production functions [ETYPF], basal crop coefficients [Kcb], crop water productivity [CWP], soil‐water extraction [SWE]) have not ...
Suat Irmak
wiley   +1 more source

Annotated world bibliography of host fruits of Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) (Diptera: Tephritidae) infests fruits and vegetables of a number of different plant species, with host plants primarily found in the plant families Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae. Although B.
Liquido, Nicanor J., McQuate, Grant T.
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The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri‐Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in Rural India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of cryo-storage on the germinability of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) seeds

open access: yesElectronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2019
For long term storage of seed, cryo-storage at -196°C is an effective approach among the ex-situ conservation methods. Even though the bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) seed has been classified as orthodox, various previous studies reported its ...
M. Sharmila   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gourds: a sliding-block puzzle with turning

open access: yes, 2020
We propose a new kind of sliding-block puzzle, called Gourds, where the objective is to rearrange 1 x 2 pieces on a hexagonal grid board of 2n + 1 cells with n pieces, using sliding, turning and pivoting moves. This puzzle has a single empty cell on a board and forms a natural extension of the 15-puzzle to include rotational moves.
Hamersma, Joep   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

‘Don’t Talk into my Talk’:oral narratives, cultural identity & popular performance in Colonial Uganda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The essay draws on available archival sources and conversations with performance practitioners to 'recover moments from the past'demonstrating the relationship between performers, society and the colonial masters.Performance in colonial Uganda was ...
Kasule, Samuel
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