(n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of this work was to investigate the role of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (ATP:oxaloacetate carboxy-lyase (transphosphorylating) EC 4.1.1.49) in the conversion of fat to sugar by the cotyledons of seedlings of Cucurbita pepo.
(2) A microsomal membrane preparation from hypocotyls of dark-grown Cucurbita pepo L. (zucchini) seedlings contains specific high-affinity binding sites for the non-hydrolyzable GTP analog guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate (GTP-gamma-S).
(3) This is supported by the three-dimensional X-ray structure of zucchini (Cucurbita pepo medullosa; courgette) AAO.
(4) Following in vitro infection with Agrobacterium rhizogenes wild strain (mannopine, 8196) and two A. tumefaciens transconjugant strains (C58C1 pArA4abc and C58C1 pArA4b) transformed (hairy) roots were induced in pumpkin (C. pepo L.) cotyledons.
(5) Capped (m7GpppG) ZYMV RNA transcripts were infectious in 10 of 91 Cucurbita pepo test plants; uncapped RNA transcripts were not infectious.
(6) Seven trypsin inhibitors were isolated from the seeds of Cucurbitaceae plants: two from cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and red bryony (Bryonia diotica) and one from figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia), spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo var.
(7) The influence of N-nitroso-N-methylurea on seedlings of two species of plants--Cucurbita pepo L., Helianthus annuus L.--was investigated.
(8) The use of intergenic spacer (IGS) fragments of plant ribosomal DNA (rDNA) for the differentiation between genera and species is tested by cross-hybridization experiments with different IGS probes of two Cucurbitaceae, Cucurbita pepo (zucchini) and Cucumis sativus (cucumber).
(9) The effect of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate on Ca2+ release from microsomes isolated from dark-grown zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) hypocotyls was studied.
(10) Here we report that GTP also induces rapid release of calcium from a zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) hypocotyl microsomal fraction.
(11) The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) 1 and 2, the 5.8S rRNA gene, and adjacent 18S rRNA and 25S rRNA coding regions of two Cucurbitaceae (Cucurbita pepo, zucchini, ITS 1: 187 bp, and ITS 2: 252 bp in length, and Cucumis sativus, cucumber, ITS 1: 229 bp, and ITS 2: 245 bp in length) have been sequenced.
(12) When the fruits of C. pepo were stored the amount of protochlorophyll-like material in the inner seed coats increased and a form of protochlorophyll absorbing at longer wavelength was apparently formed.
(13) Lectins are present in the exudate (presumably from the phloem) of the fruits of three species of the Cucurbitaceae, namely vegetable marrow (Cucurbita pepo), melon (Cucumis melo) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus).
(14) In the end he was pushed into third position by just 0.05%, scoring 74.200 overall, while Finnish rider Katja Karjalainen took silver with a score of 74.250 and Austria's Pepo Puch took gold with 79.150.
(15) Closed and pH-tight membrane vesicles prepared from hypocotyls of 5-day-old dark-grown seedlings of Cucurbita pepo accumulate the plant growth hormone indole-3-acetic acid along an imposed proton gradient (pH low outside, high inside).
(16) The 600 nt at the 5' portion of cucurbit IGS is more conserved in evolution than the remainder, as revealed by comparison of C. maxima and C. pepo IGS restriction maps and by nucleotide sequence comparison of C. maxima and Cucumis sativa IGSs.
(17) Pure ascorbate oxidase (L-ascorbate:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.10.3.3) isolated from Cucurbita pepo medullosa, which is known to be specific for ascorbic acid, shows a secondary catecholoxidase activity at approx.
(18) Besides the delay in growth, also the formation of local overgrowth of cotyledons and hypocotyl of C. pepo, the base of cotyledons of H. annuus and mezocotyl of Z. mays were observed.
(19) Glyoxysomes and peroxisomes have been isolated from dark- and light-grown seedlings of pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) by sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation.
(20) The influence of auramine-00 on seedlings of three species of plants - Cucurbita pepo L., Helianthus annuus L., Zea mays L.-was investigated.
Peso
Definition:
(n.) A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each is estimated to make up to 100,000 pesos (£70,000) a year in a country where 30% of the population live below the poverty line.
(2) The association's vice president, Luis Peña, proposed at the time that transactions conducted in cash be limited to about 50,000 pesos (£2,400).
(3) The five worst-performing currencies this year have been the Argentinian peso and Brazilian real, with losses of more than 30% versus the dollar, the South African rand, Turkish lira and the Russian rouble, which have tumbled more than 18 %.
(4) Amnesty’s researcher spoke to two people said to be paid killers, who take orders from a police officer who pays them 5,000 pesos ($100) for each drug user killed and 10,000 to 15,000 pesos for each alleged drug dealer killed.
(5) These 12-peso morsels are pure corazón Mexicano (heart of Mexico).
(6) For every peso spent on volunteers, the Philippine Red Cross receives eight pesos worth of service and improved service delivery.
(7) With police officers taking home a monthly salary of just 3,500 pesos (£178), they make easy pickings for the cartels.
(8) Based on the average cost per case, the analysis disclosed that for every peso (constant 1983 currency) that IMSS spent on family planning services to its urban population during 1972-1984 inclusive, the agency saved nine pesos.
(9) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.
(10) "I would not be surprised if it can go as high as 250 billion [pesos, $5.8bn, £3.6bn]," Balisacan told Reuters, commenting on the likely cost of reconstruction.
(11) Alejandro Hope, a prominent commentator, tweeted : “Virgilio Andrade surprises the world by concluding that there wasn’t, isn’t, and never will be any conflict of interest in the Higa case.” Mexico's finance minister plunges government deeper into crisis Read more Andrade told reporters that his investigation had found no evidence that either the president nor his minister had helped the holding company, Grupo Higa, and its subsidiaries, obtain the 22 contracts it currently maintains with the federal government, worth a total of 1,300m pesos ($76m).
(12) More recently, living costs for such foreigners have been driven down even further as the prospect of a Trump presidency has caused the Mexican peso to sink.
(13) The devalued peso precipitated a swift recovery in exports and the country soon swung into a massive trade surplus.
(14) The Mexican government offered a reward of 60m pesos ($3.8m) for information leading to the drug lord’s recapture, but the escape was extremely embarrassing for the government .
(15) He said this involved Rivera paying 10.5m pesos ($635,000) in rent for the period the family occupied the mansion, with the company returning the 14.5m pesos ($875,00) she had already made in payments on the mansion.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest El gobierno mexicano ha realizado muchos intentos por luchar contra el problema del peso generalizado del país.
(17) Like most barra soldiers, Diaz started by roaming the streets around the stadiums charging fans 40-60 pesos (£8-10) to park their cars near the stadium.
(18) That shouldn’t be taken for granted now that Britain is about to take a giant political and economic leap into the dark – and sterling has already plunged further this year than the Argentinian peso.
(19) A decrease was achieved from the hospital rate admission by diarrhea and dehydration, throw the oral dehydration therapy in a 66%, the mortality rate was reduced 72% and an expenditure of $619,243,480.00 pesos in drugs and auxiliary examinations of diagnostic was avoided.
(20) It tumbled as much as 13%, a huge move for a currency, crashing through 20 pesos per dollar.