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Perin, Ellen Cristina; da Silva Messias, Rafael; Borowski, Joyce Moura; Crizel, Rosane Lopes; Schott, Igor Bulsing; Carvalho, Ivan Ricardo; Rombaldi, Cesar Valmor; Galli, Vanessa
fruit quality; fruit yield; fruits, etc ; Fragaria ananassa; abscisic acid; acids; anthocyanins; antioxidant activity; ascorbic acid; drought; gene expression regulation; genes; osmotic stress; phenolic compounds; strawberries; water stress; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Strawberry crop is very sensitive to osmotic stress conditions. We investigated the effect of the stress induced by mild drought (DS) and salt (SS) stresses, on molecular, physiological, and metabolic processes in the strawberry crop (Fragaria ananassa), cv. Camarosa. The results showed that the fruit yield was not affected. Mild DS and SS also resulted in an increased content of phenolics, anthoc ...
fruits, etc ; callus; genotype; graft compatibility; herbaceous plants; juveniles; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The formation of a successful graft includes a series of biological steps involving immediate responses to the wound, such as callus and functional vascular system formation between graft partners. However, grafts are not always successful when different genotypes (plant species) are grafted, resulting in tissue union and regeneration problems—popularly known as graft incompatibility. Numerous stu ...
fruits, etc ; children; diet; food acceptability; foods; parents; taste; toddlers; vegetables; Show all 9 Subjects
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... While repeated exposure is an established method for inducing food acceptance in young children, little is known about parents’ experiences of repeatedly offering new or disliked foods at home. In this study, parents kept structured diary records during a 15-day period in which they offered their 2-year-old child daily tastes of one fruit and one vegetable. We explored how children’s acceptance of ...
fruit drinks, etc ; flavor; hedonic scales; odors; taste; texture; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The response variable of overall liking is often used to measure consumers’ overall hedonic response to food. However, little research is done to understand, if liking of all four sensory modalities; appearance, odour, taste and texture, are reflected in the evaluation of overall liking, or if a single sensory modality stands out and is of most importance. The term sensory satisfaction was recentl ...
fruit set; fruit yield, etc ; deficit irrigation; endocarp; irrigation rates; oleuropein; olive oil; olives; orchards; phenology; trees; verbascoside; water stress; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Experiments were performed in a high-density olive orchard to compare the effect of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) at two different phenological stages with fully-irrigated trees (FI) over two years. Stress was imposed either prior to pit hardening (RDI 1) or after endocarp sclerification during the initial phase of oil accumulation (RDI 2). Fully irrigated trees received 2277 and 1648 m³ ha⁻¹ ...
fruit peels; fruits, etc ; Astrocaryum vulgare; Bactris gasipaes; acetone; beta-carotene; byproducts; color; ethyl acetate; gamma-carotene; pulp; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Tucumã (Astrocaryum vulgare) and peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) are Amazonian fruits with high potential to be used as source of carotenoids due to the remarkable yellow-orange colour of their pulp and peel. In this study, for the first time, both the extraction of carotenoids from the peel of tucumã and peach palm fruits and their carotenoid profile were investigated. The carotenoid contents of th ...
... Well‐designed and well‐operated postharvest mechanical handling processes are vital if fresh fruits are to enter markets with minimal damage. The susceptibility of fruit to quality loss during handling is largely determined by mechanical contact and damage. This article reviews current understanding concerning the effect of impact and other mechanical contacts on fruits. It also discusses the majo ...
fruit quality; fruits, etc ; Pleurotus ostreatus; composts; prices; sawdust; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In the original publication of this article [1], there was an error in an author name. In this correction article the correct and incorrect names are indicated. ...
fruit quality; fruits, etc ; equipment; manufacturing; researchers; transportation; watermelons; Show all 7 Subjects
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... It is important to classify the transportation, storage and sale of fruits according to the quality. But it is hard to detect the internal quality of watermelon and other big-sized and thick-skinned fruits with non-destructive means. Although non-destructive detection means of watermelon internal quality has been studied by many researchers, there are still few studies on the on-line detection equ ...
dried fruit; fruits, etc ; Ligustrum lucidum; cell proliferation; secoiridoids; spectral analysis; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Three new secoiridoids, nuezhenelenoliciside (1), isojaslanceoside B (2), 6′-O-trans-cinnamoyl-secologanoside (3), were isolated from the dried fruits of Ligustrum lucidum. Their structures were elucidated by comprehensive spectroscopic analysis. Among them, 1 featured a rare rearrangement product of secoiridoid, which underwent the cleavage of chemical bond between C-1 and O-2, and the reformatio ...
fruits; small fruits, etc ; Lonicera caerulea; freeze drying; juices; loganin; pomace; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of the different methods of preparation of the blue honeysuckle (Lonicera caerulea L. var. Kamtschatica) cv. ‘Wojtek’ and their influence on the iridoid content of fruit juices and fresh and freeze-dried pomaces. Compounds were identified by UPLC-ESI-qTOF-MS/MS in negative ion mode. Five iridoids – loganic acid, 7-epi-loganic acid 7-O-pentoside, loga ...
... Visual localization by picking robots in natural environments is a difficult problem due to disturbance by interference factors. To solve this problem, research on visual positioning for dynamic litchi clusters with disturbance under natural environments was performed in this study. A visual system with two CCD cameras was used to acquire images of dynamic litchi clusters. The centroid of minimum ...
... This paper describes the development of a simple, low cost chronoamperometric assay, for the measurement of fructose, using a graphite-nanoparticle modified screen-printed electrode (SPCE-G-COOH). Cyclic voltammetry showed that the response of the SPCE-G-COOH enhanced the sensitivity and precision, towards the enzymatically generated ferrocyanide species, over a plain SPCE; therefore the former wa ...
fruits, etc ; complement; diagnostic techniques; therapeutics; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Complement immunobiology, and with it complement analysis, has undergone a renaissance in the past decade. Classically, complement analysis was limited number of testing C3, C4 in a routine laboratory with the possible addition of CH50 with all other analysis being performed at only few highly esoteric laboratories. This diagnostics expanding beyond specialized laboratories is the result of the gr ...
fruit quality; fruits; raw fruit, etc ; Solanum melongena; confidence interval; eggplants; horticulture; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Due to the increasing consumption of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.), research should be carried out with this horticultural species aiming at providing technical recommendations for increasing production and quality of fruits. The aim of this study was to estimate the plot and sample size, as well the number of replications suitable for eggplant trials. Two uniformity trials were performed with e ...
citrus fruits; fruit quality; raw fruit, etc ; case studies; fluid mechanics; models; temperature; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Fruit quality loss is dependent on the temperature control throughout the postharvest cold chain. Previous research mainly focused on optimizing the cooling performance of single unit operations. However, assessing fruit temperature history throughout the entire cold chain is crucial to determine the end quality. This study proposes a virtual cold chain (VCC) method to predict the temperature hist ...
fruit consumption; fruits; raw fruit, etc ; child health; cohort studies; confidence interval; food frequency questionnaires; gestational diabetes; glucose; glucose tolerance tests; glycemic index; odds ratio; pregnancy; pregnant women; regression analysis; risk factors; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Fresh fruit intake has been found to be associated with risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM); however, the evidence is limited and the findings are inconsistent. We aimed to assess the association of fresh fruit intake by fruit subgroups based on their glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) values and GDM incidence in Chinese pregnant women.We included 3300 eligible women from the Tongj ...
fruit quality; fruit set; fruits, etc ; Punica granatum; antioxidant activity; cultivars; fertilizer application; fertilizers; gallic acid; industry; magnesium sulfate; nutrient content; pomegranates; potassium nitrate; titratable acidity; total soluble solids; trees; zinc; zinc sulfate; Show all 19 Subjects
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... Investigations into putative health benefits of pomegranate fruit have increased interest in its consumption and production but limited evidence exists regarding fruit mineral nutrient concentrations and other internal fruit quality characteristics, especially for Wonderful, an industry standard cultivar, and even less is known about the effects of agricultural practices such as foliar fertilizer ...
fruit peels; fruit quality; fruits, etc ; air; alpha-amylase; ambient temperature; bananas; beta-fructofuranosidase; catalysts; chemical analysis; chlorophyll; color; humidity; phenol; phosphorylase; physicochemical properties; pyridoxine; ripening; shelf life; starch; storage temperature; sugar content; sugars; Show all 23 Subjects
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... Pyridoxine activates many different enzymes in the plant cell and it contributes to many various physiological processes. It has been examined for stimulating and enhancing banana fruit 'Williams' (Giant Cavendish AAA sub-gathering) during12 days of the shelf life. Many different concentrations of vitamin B6 0, 3, 6, 9, and 12 mM have been applied to bananas for 30 min. Thereafter, fruit stored at ...
... Low temperature storage prolongs the postharvest life of various fresh fruits and vegetables. However, the actual storage temperature may also significantly influence fruit and vegetable quality. In the present study, we stored Gold Queen Hami melons at three different temperatures [21 °C (control), 3 °C, and 0.5 °C (0 ± 0.5 °C)] for 36 days. The humidity for all three temperatures conditions was ...