pigweed is a quickly evolving weed in the farming industry. Scientifically, this plant is known as Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson. Amaranthus comes from the Greek for evergreen or unfading. This plant was first described by Sereno Watson in the late 1800s. However, it was named after Edward Palmer, who actually discovered the plant earlier in the same century. This is where the palmeri of Amaranthus palmeri was derived. The pigweed is also known by other names such as, Carelessweed and Palmer’s Ameranth
2.1 Importance of cat’s whiskers 2.1.1 Nutritional value of cat’s whiskers Cat’s whiskers (Cleome gynandra L.), is a traditional vegetable consumed in quite a number of countries in Africa that include Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Surveys indicated that its production and utilization are on an increase due to its multiple underexploited benefits in terms of nutritional value (Brown et al., 2005). Chweya (1995) reported that this traditional vegetable is rich in minerals, vitamins, amino
It is in the nature of pastoral poetry that human desires are projected into a natural setting and lived out only through fantasy. The real world, full as it is of unpredictability and unwanted emotions, is accessible to everyone, while the idyll of the pastoral is preserved “for poets’ fantasies;” its ground is not to be trampled by everyone (Ettin 43). After failing to retreat into the traditional pastoral landscape, John Milton begins, in his poem “Lycidas,” to exercise the control he does not
Glycosides might be phenol, liquor or sulfur mixes. They are portrayed by a sugar bit or moiety connected by an exceptional attach to one or non-sugar parcels. Many plants store chemicals as inert glycosides, which can be enacted by catalyst hydrolysis (40). Glycosides have therapeutic properties, for example, anticancer (41), narcotic (42) and stomach related properties (43). Saponins are regular in an assortment of higher plants and normally found in roots, tubers, leaves, sprouts or seeds. In