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Twenty five accessions of okra collected in Ghana were evaluated for phenotypic identity, diversity and quality based on morphological characters. Qualitative and quantitative characteristics were measured and scored as specified by the standard international crop descriptor for okra. A dendrogram was generated for morphological data based on the simple matching coefficient, and four cluster groups were observed. The distribution of the accessions into the groups, based on the morphological traits had no unique geographical relationship. The results of the matrix of similarity among the 25 accessions performed by NTsys pc programme placed two accessions in a tie, suggesting that, they were identical. Eight accessions were placed at above 80% similarity, meaning that, the accession pairs were closely related, and three accessions were 50% similar, which means they matched at half the characters measured. Six pairs of accessions measured were somewhat diverse, which can be exploited b...

The effects of household processing on removal of organophosphate residues (malathion, fenitrothion, formothion, parathion, methyl parathion and chlorpyriphos) in tomato, bean, okra, eggplant, cauliflower and capsicum were studied. The processes included washing separately with (water, 0.9% NaCl, 0.1% NaHCO3 and 0.1% acetic acid, 0.001% KMnO4, 0.1% ascorbic acid, 0.1% malic acid and 0.1% oxalic acid and 2% aqueous solution of raw Spondias pinnata (SP) and boiling. In all of the vegetables, washing with different household chemicals reduced the Organophosphorous residues (OPs) by 20-89% and boiling reduced the residues by 52-100%. Author(s) Details Dr. Yogesh Kumar Tyagi, Ph.D USBAS, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Sector 16 C, Dwarka, Delhi-110078, India. View Books: http://bp.bookpi.org/index.php/bpi/catalog/book/116