What's the difference between epicarp and exocarp?

Epicarp


Definition:

  • () The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From an ethanolic extract of the epicarps, two known flavonol glycosides, isorhamnetin-3-O-robinobioside and isorhamnetin-3-O-rutinoside were isolated and identified.
  • (2) The apparent Km at the optimum pH were: pumpkin (epicarp.

Exocarp


Definition:

  • (n.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A trypsin inhibitor was extracted from eggplant exocarps with several buffers.
  • (2) Respirable (10 less than 10 micrometers) raw cotton dusts associated with the processing of middling, SLM and LM raw cottons were predicted to contain the following % weight composition of specific vegetable ingredients: leaflike = 70--72%, stem = 13--18%, bark = 3--8%, exocarp-mesocarp = 3.6%, endocarp = 1--2% and seed = 0.5--2%.
  • (3) From the data obtained the three components of the plant ("exocarp", "seed", and "stem") could be correctly classified.
  • (4) The activities of the exocarp were greater than those of the sarcocarp and the activities from immature fruits (collected in July-August) were greater than those from mature fruits.
  • (5) Isoelectrofocusing demonstrated that this crude inhibitor in the eggplant exocarps was composed of at least three forms, one of which differed in its isoelectric point.
  • (6) A protein proteinase inhibitor was isolated and purified from eggplant exocarp by heat treatment, ammomium sulfate fractionation, column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-25 and G-50.
  • (7) Both crude ethanol extracts of eggplant brown substances and acetate buffer extracts from eggplant exocarps showed similarly an enzyme inhibition of competitive type.
  • (8) A proteinase inhibitor was isolated and partially purified from the exocarp of eggplant, Solanum melongena L., by means of acetate buffer extraction, heat treatment, salting-out and column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose.

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