AOMORI, Japan — Hokuto Yokoyama has run for political office four times, and lost four times, as an opposition candidate in this mountainous region known for its abundant apples, and its equally abundant loyalty to the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan almost continuously for more than a half-century.
Founded in 1802, the abbey is home to a 70-strong brotherhood who were content to make juice from the orchard's abundant apples and plums until a visionary German monk named Father Rainer Verborg arrived in 2001.
To choose these apples (or tomatoes, or asparagus or peas) is to cast a ballot, and the consequences are not benign, particularly in a year that has been hailed by apple farmers from Ulster to Ontario Counties as the most blessed and abundant apple harvest in ages.
Walk through the garage door and you enter Shaun's Secret Kingdom, where honeybees feast from abundant blooms, apple and quince trees ready their branches for fruit and hens cluck around in dappled sunlight.
Autumn squash and chestnuts are another seasonal delight and orchard fruits are abundant too - apples, pears, plums and greengages.
Although ascorbic acid has been found to be the most abundant vitamin in apples, its occurrence is about 10 200 times lower than that usually reported for polyphenols [23].
Previous studies have shown that apple is rich in flavonoids, especially abundant in the apple peel and seeds [4, 7 10, 15, 17, 28, 31, 32].
Salads, too, are satisfying, especially the harvest salad, abundant with diced apple, pear, red grapes and walnuts with blue cheese, endive and mixed greens, tumbled together with an apple cider vinaigrette that flirted with being too tangy but, in the end, wasn't.
In this study, di-nucleotide repeats are the most abundant SSRs in apple, accounting for ~ 71.9% of all SSRs.
Trees in the Malus genus, including crab apple and wild apple, produce abundant fruit, and this time of year even a short stroll through the city is an exercise in falling fruit.
Flavonoids are phenolic substances characterized for a low molecular weight and they are abundant in plant tissues, apple being one of the most important (particularly its skin) [1, 2].
