() 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.
Pericarp
Definition:
(n.) The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new toxic neoanisatin-derivative (1) was isolated from the pericarps of Illicium majus.
(2) We show that P is required for accumulation in the pericarp of transcripts of two genes (A1 and C2) encoding enzymes for flavonoid biosynthesis--genes also regulated by C1 in the aleurone.
(3) Byssinosis, COPD, cotton fever and cotton pneumoconiosis may be different types of responses due to the different duration of exposure, the different parts of bronchial tree (upper respiratory tract, small airway, and respiratory part) where deposition occurs, and the different components of cotton dust (broken cotton fibers, bracts, pericarps, bacteria, and fungi).
(4) The extracts obtained from root, stem, leaf and fruit pericarps of Glaucium flavum showed antibacterial activity in an in vitro assay.
(5) Cytokinin, [8-14C]Benzylaminopurine, metabolism in tomato pericarp was followed during a 3 h period utilizing thin layer chromatography and visualization by fluorography.
(6) After 10 d, concentrations of total volatile fatty acids (VFA) in caecal fluid were significantly different between groups and fell in the order: aleurone greater than wheat bran greater than pericarp-seed coat greater than cellulose.
(7) The maize P gene is required for the production of red phlobaphene pigments in the pericarp and cob.
(8) Southern analysis of DNA prepared from the pericarp tissue demonstrates that the deletions can occur premeiotically, in the somatic cells during development of the pericarp.
(9) From pericarps of Rosa davurica (Rosaceae), a traditional Chinese medicine, eight known tetracyclic triterpene acids, three known flavonoids, ethyl beta-fructopyranoside and methyl 3-O-beta-glucopyranosyl-gallate were isolated.
(10) orange pericarp (orp) is a seedling lethal mutant of maize caused by mutations in the duplicate unlinked recessive loci orp1 and orp2.
(11) In testa-pericarp tissue of mutants ant18-159, ant18-162 and ant18-164, wild-type levels of steady state mRNA for dihydroflavonol reductase have been measured, while mRNA for this enzyme is not transcribed in mutant ant18-161.
(12) Examination of the gross morphologies of the dusts revealed that, except for corn, each dust contained either husk or pericarp (seed coat in the case of flax) fragments in addition to respirable particles.
(13) The behavior of corn pericarp generally was similar to that of oat hulls.
(14) The P-vv allele, which specifies variegated pericarp and cob, contains an insertion of the transposable element Ac in the P gene.
(15) A variety of phloroglucinol derivatives isolated from the pericarps of Mallotus japonicus were assessed for growth inhibiting activity against human larynx (HEp-2) and lung (PC-13) carcinoma cells as well as mouse B16 melanoma, leukemia P388, and L5178Y cells.
(16) Infection of developing corn kernels may occur through the silks, through holes and fissures in the pericarp or at points where the pericarp is torn by the emerging seedling, and as a result of systemic infection of the corn plant by F. moniliforme.
(17) Though both general (gca) and specific combining ability (sca) variances contributed significantly for these traits, the contribution of sca variance was more prominent for titratable acidity, total soluble solids and ascorbic acid content, while for pericarp thickness gca variance was more important.
(18) These data demonstrate that hardness of both fruit pericarp and seed may play a significant role in food choice among sympatric vertebrates.
(19) We report the partial purification (400-fold) of ACC synthase from wounded pink tomato pericarp.
(20) In maturing seeds, the EP2 gene is expressed in the outer epidermis of the integument, the seed coat, and the pericarp epidermis, as well as transiently in between both mericarps.