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... Beer is a popular drink and represents the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. In recent years, there has been a significant growth of independent craft breweries, even in countries without a brewing tradition. A craft brewery is usually defined as a small, independent and traditional brewery. Nowadays, consumers are looking for genuine, singular, different and high-quality produ ...
citrus fruits; fruits, etc ; agriculture; automation; color; data collection; electronics; farms; immunity; orchards; yield forecasting; Show all 11 Subjects
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... In the process of farm automation, fruit detection is the basis and guarantee for yield prediction, automatic picking, and other orchard operations. RGB images can only obtain the two-dimensional information of the scene, which is not sufficient to effectively distinguish fruits that are dense growth and occlusion by branches and leaves. With the development of depth sensors, using RGB-D images wi ...
citrus fruits; fruits, etc ; epicuticular wax; ethylene; farnesol; food chemistry; fruit quality; metabolism; sitosterols; squalene; triterpenoids; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Epicuticular waxes are important natural compounds that influence cuticle properties and can protect fruit from factors that harm its external quality. We demonstrated that, at a dose that reduces postharvest citrus fruit quality loss (4 d 2 µL L⁻¹), ethylene redirected epicuticular wax metabolism towards the synthesis of primary alcohols, mostly behenyl alcohol, by favouring the acyl-reduction pa ...
citrus fruits; fruits; tree fruits, etc ; Citrus; calcium; carbon dioxide; chlorophyll; cultivars; fruit quality; gibberellins; glycosides; hybrids; metabolites; metabolomics; nitrogen; nutrition; photosynthesis; potassium; potassium fertilizers; stomatal conductance; Show all 20 Subjects
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... Potassium (K) nutrition plays a key role in alleviating a variety of peel disorders in tree fruit, but the effect of this nutrient on the physiological and metabolic profiles involved in the fruit splitting of citrus remains unclear. Three levels of K were used to treat citrus ‘Ehime Kashi 34’ (Citrus Nishinoka × C. Shiranui), a hybrid cultivar with fruit that easily split. The results showed that ...
fruits, etc ; hunger; nutrition; physical activity; traffic; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This study compared rural vs urban eating and physical activity (PA) behaviors and perceived barriers. Analyses revealed rural adults cooked more at home, ate out less at restaurants (5.59 vs 4.91 days, P = .00; .71 days vs 1.08 days, P = .01, respectively), and snacked less than urban adults (1.69 vs 2.01 times per day, P = .03). Among rural adults, unaffordability was associated with not meeting ...
fruits, etc ; absorbance; absorption; anthocyanins; food chemistry; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Anthocyanins are present in bright colored fruit and vegetables with growing evidence for their health benefits. Several methods exist in the literature to measure the total monomeric anthocyanin content in foods. Although the simplest method uses UV–Vis spectrophotometry, it requires the use of anthocyanin molar absorption coefficients (Ɛ). While commonly reported for some compounds, these values ...
fruits, etc ; bile; food chemistry; persimmons; proanthocyanidins; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Dried persimmons contain abundant insoluble tannins comprised of non-extractable proanthocyanidins (NEPAs). To determine the beneficial function of NEPAs, we studied the bile acid-binding ability of NEPAs using in vitro and in vivo experiments. For the in vitro evaluation, 70% (v/v) acetone-insoluble solids (AIS) with different NEPA levels was prepared from persimmon fruits during drying. AIS with ...
fruits, etc ; Ferula; chemistry; essential oils; Uzbekistan; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Lipids and essential oils from Ferula prangifolia Korovin (Apiaceae) endemic in Uzbekistan were studied for the first time. The compositions of lipid fatty acids and essential oils of fruit and leaves were established. ...
fruits, etc ; biosynthesis; genes; lutein; phytonutrients; tomatoes; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Carotenoids are vital phytonutrients widely recognised for their health benefits. Therefore, it is vital to thoroughly investigate the metabolic regulatory network underlying carotenoid biosynthesis and accumulation to open new leads towards improving their contents in vegetables and crops. The outcome of our study defines SlWRKY35 as a positive regulator of carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato. SlWR ...
... AbstractCarex malipoensis, a new species from southeast Yunnan, China, is here described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to C. trichophylla in sect. Euprepes, but differs from it by its longer inflorescences and peduncles, pendulous spikes, hispidulous female glumes, densely hispidulous utricles, and longer nutlets. ...
fruits; stone fruits, etc ; agricultural extension; basins; capital; crop diversification; infrastructure; markets; risk; vegetable growing; vegetables; viability; water shortages; Australia; Show all 14 Subjects
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... Worldwide, water scarcity, profit-cost pressure and restructuring of agricultural markets have led to on-farm diversification. The Goulburn Valley’s (GV) pome and stone fruit farms, in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia, present potential lessons for the conditions under which alternative crops can sustain livelihoods. This research uses a mixed methods approach to assess the viability of veget ...
fruits, etc ; food quality; fungi; mycotoxins; postharvest diseases; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Fungal pathogens, the causative agents of postharvest decay and mycotoxin contamination in a fruit, are major threats to food quality and safety worldwide. Control of postharvest decay is a significant challenge because of the limited availability of management options. -Omic technologies based on high-throughput sequencing have provided a powerful research tool for understanding complex pathologi ...
fruits, etc ; agronomy; automation; bananas; labor; prototypes; robots; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Currently, banana harvest still relies on manual operation with high labor intensity. With an aging global population, it is important to develop a machine to replace the manual harvesting of bananas to increase sustainability. In the area of robotic fruit harvest, most of the existing studies have used one single manipulator to grip the fruit. However, unlike other fruits, the weight of a banana ...
fruits, etc ; color; cross infection; models; nectarines; technology; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Bruise reduces the edible quality of nectarines and brings potential risks of cross-infection of fruit, but it is challenging to accurately detect bruised nectarines because of the color similarity between a sound and bruised area in nectarine fruit. Therefore, this research aims to develop an effective and efficient method, based on polarization imaging (PI) technology, for the detection of bruis ...
fruits, etc ; aril; food chemistry; pesticides; pomegranates; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... An analytical method in pomegranate whole fruits and arils was developed in LC-MS/MS and validated as per SANTE/12682/2019. Samples were extracted following acetonitrile-based modified QuEChERS protocol. The method was linear and the coefficient of determination ranged between 0.998 and 0.999. Through this method, all the pesticides were detected and quantified at 10 µg kg⁻¹. The accuracy test at ...
fruits, etc ; Stevia; diet; sucrose; systematic review; xylitol; Show all 6 Subjects
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... With the growing interest of the general population in a healthier diet, it is possible to notice an increase in the demand for sweet fruit preserves with the partial or total substitution of sugar by different sweeteners. This systematic review identified 28 studies to answer the following question: “What are the effects of different sugar substitute sweeteners on the sensory aspects of jams, jel ...
fruits, etc ; apples; descriptive statistics; education; equations; surveys; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Apple preferences of US consumers are widely explored. However, the key factors that drive the importance that US consumers place on apple attributes are rather unexplored. To fill this literature gap, an online survey with 383 US apple buyers was conducted. A two-step analysis consisting of descriptive statistics and partial least squares structural equation modelling indicates that subjective kn ...
fruits, etc ; Crataegus; bioactive properties; chemometrics; food chemistry; metabolomics; Show all 6 Subjects
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... There is a growing demand for functional foodstuffs naturally rich in nutrients and bioactive compounds associated with putative health benefits. This study followed a strategy integrating metabolomic with chemometric to identify quality markers that can be used to distinguish function related bioactivity of fruits, using hawthorn (Crataegus cuneata) fruit as an example. The integrated strategy wa ...
fruits, etc ; data analysis; dietary supplements; instrumentation; optics; spectroscopy; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Vibrational spectroscopy techniques are the most used techniques in the routine analysis of foods. This technique is widely utilised to measure and monitor the proximate chemical composition (e.g., protein, dry matter, fat and fibre) in an array of agricultural commodities, food ingredients and products. Developments in optics, instrumentation and hardware concomitantly with data analytics, have a ...