() 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.