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melons, etc ; acetates; economic valuation; flavor; fruits; odors; sensory evaluation; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Processing melon into spirits has important environmental and economic value. However, the flavour of melon spirits is undesirable and has yet to be studied. In this study, a combination of odour activity value, gas chromatography–olfactometry detection frequency analysis, aroma reconstitution, and omission tests showed that key aroma compounds (Group 1), including 3,6-nonadien-1-ol and 3-nonen-1- ...
melons, etc ; adsorption; carbon nitride; crystal structure; density functional theory; photocatalysis; photocatalysts; semiconductors; thermodynamics; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Melon-based carbon nitride (CN) is a semiconductor photocatalyst with a conduction band position suitable for photocatalytic H₂O₂ production. However, the thermodynamic inability to adsorb O₂ molecules greatly limits its photocatalytic efficiency for H₂O₂ production. In this paper, P-doped CN with good performance for H₂O₂ production was synthesized by a simple one-step calcination method. The exp ...
melons, etc ; Arabidopsis; chromosome mapping; fruits; genomics; genotyping; rice; seed size; sequence analysis; vegetable crops; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Melon is a popular fruit vegetable crop worldwide with diverse morphological variation. We report a high-density genetic map of melon and nine major QTLs with physical region ranging from 43.47 kb to 1.89 Mb. Importantly, two seed-related trait QTLs were repeatedly detected in two environments, and the mapping region was narrowed to 522 kb according to a regional linkage analysis. A total of 40 an ...
melons, etc ; auxins; cucumbers; fruits; genes; genome-wide association study; phylogeny; plant hormones; stress response; tomatoes; Show all 10 Subjects
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... miR160 plays a crucial role in various biological processes by regulating their target gene auxin response factor (ARF) in plants. However, little is known about miR160 and ARF in cucumber fruit expansion. Here, 4 Csa-MIR160 family members and 17 CsARFs were identified through a genome-wide search. Csa-miR160 showed a closer relationship with those in melon. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that CsA ...
... Liriomyza sativae Blanchard is a major pest of melon and other crops in the Northeast of Brazil, where it has caused great losses despite the use of insecticides to reduce infestations. Previous studies showed that Liriomyza flies can develop resistance to several groups of insecticides, making difficult its control in the field. Bioassays to estimate the concentration-mortality curves were perfor ...
melons, etc ; Solanum; eggplants; fruit quality; genotyping; germplasm; lettuce; pepper; research institutions; stress tolerance; tomatoes; France; Show all 12 Subjects
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... The French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) conserves and distributes five vegetable collections as seeds: the aubergine* (in this article the word aubergine refers to eggplant), pepper, tomato, melon and lettuce collections, together with their wild or cultivated relatives, are conserved in Avignon, France. Accessions from the collections have geograph ...
melons, etc ; absorption; capacitance; carbon nanofibers; electrochemical capacitors; electrochemistry; electromagnetic radiation; energy; energy density; peanuts; sustainable development; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Recently, the high-value utilization of food wastes has attracted great interest in sustainable development. Focusing on the major application of electrochemical energy storage (ECES), light-weight lignin-based carbon nanofibers (LCNFs) were controllably fabricated as supercapacitors from melon seed shells (MSS) and peanut shells (PS) through electrospinning and carbonizing processes. As a result, ...
melons, etc ; clarification (processing); cold; viscosity; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The impact of melon juice clarification through two conventional pretreatments on the physicochemical properties of an alcoholic beverage was studied. Fresh melon juice (FJ), filtered fresh juice (FFJ) through a sieve mesh, and cold sedimented filtered fresh juice (SFFJ) were used, with which the liqueurs were made and macerated for 5 days. The °Brix in the FJ was 8.16, which decreased to 3 °Brix ...
... The objectives of this research work were to evaluate the effect of in vitro gastrointestinal digestion (GIT) on melon peel juice (MPJ) powder from fruit processing industry by-products, considering (i) the recovery and accessibility indexes, (ii) the changes on antioxidant activity, and (iii) the prebiotic effect. Throughout exposition to GIT conditions a decrease on the total phenolic content (T ...
melons, etc ; Cucumis melo; evolution; new variety; India; Show all 5 Subjects
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... A new potential variety of melon (Cucumis melo L.; family Cucurbitaceae) is described here from Rajasthan, North western India. Detailed description, illustration and photo plate are provided to facilitate identification of this new variety. ...
melons, etc ; Cucumis anguria; Fusarium wilt; developmental stages; fruits; growth promotion; heat; horticultural crops; hybrids; night temperature; ovule culture; ovules; self-pollination; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Wild species of the genus Cucumis, such as C. anguria, are resistant to various melon (C. melo) diseases such as Fusarium wilt race 1.2 and are anticipated as genetic resources of melon. However, in the interspecific crosses between C. anguria and melon, the abortion of the embryos was observed in the early growth stage and could not be regenerated even when cultured. Therefore, for embryo rescue, ...
melons, etc ; Listeria monocytogenes; Salmonella enterica; antibacterial properties; antioxidant activity; antioxidants; apples; color; ferulic acid; fresh-cut produce; fruit quality; pH; titratable acidity; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Listeria monocytogenes can grow under conditions at which fresh-cut fruit are stored, whereas Salmonella spp. has been associated with a number of outbreaks related to such products. It is therefore necessary to find products capable of reducing microbial counts while maintaining quality of the product. In this regard, ferulic acid (FA) has shown antimicrobial, antioxidant and many physiological f ...
... MYB transcription factors, one of the largest gene families in plants, play an important role in plant stress response. In this paper, MYBs of melon were identified and classified by genome wide analysis, and their physicochemical properties, structural characteristics and phylogenetic relationships were analyzed. The response of melon MYB to autotoxicity and saline-alkali stress was analyzed by u ...
Cecilia Martínez-Martínez; Maria José Gonzalo; Pablo Sipowicz; Manuel Campos; Irene Martínez-Fernández; Carmen Leida; Mohammed Zouine; Konstantinos G. Alexiou; Jordi Garcia-Mas; María Dolores Gómez; Pablo Tornero; Miguel Ángel Pérez-Amador; Cristina Esteras; Belén Picó; Carlos Romero; Antonio J. Monforte
melons, etc ; Arabidopsis thaliana; alleles; cultivars; fruit morphology; fruits; gene expression; genetic background; germplasm; introgression; loci; ovarian development; phenotype; quantitative traits; tomatoes; transgressive segregation; Show all 16 Subjects
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... KEY MESSAGE: The gene underlying the melon fruit shape QTL fsqs8.1 is a member of the Ovate Family Proteins. Variation in fruit morphology is caused by changes in gene expression likely due to a cryptic structural variation in this locus. Melon cultivars have a wide range of fruit morphologies. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been identified underlying such diversity. This research focuses on t ...
melons, etc ; Centaurea stoebe; Cucumis melo; deet; electroantennography; honey bees; piperidines; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The productivity and survival of managed honey bee colonies is negatively impacted by a diverse array of interacting factors, including exposure to agrochemicals, such as pesticides. This study investigated the use of volatile heterocyclic amine (HCA) compounds as potential short-term repellents that could be employed as feeding deterrents to reduce the exposure of bees to pesticide-treated plants ...
... Rutile GeO₂ with d¹⁰ metal in octahedral coordination possesses both a high charge separation rate and carrier mobility because the partial charge density is dominated by Ge–O anti-bonding for CBM. GeO₂ is capable of photocatalytic water splitting, even visible light water splitting through combination with the sensitizer melon. ...
melons, etc ; antimicrobial properties; apples; chitosan; fresh-cut produce; fruits; quercetin; spoilage; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Quercetin-chitosan (QCS) polysaccharide was synthesized via non-radical reaction using L-valine-quercetin as the precursor. QCS was systematically characterized and demonstrated amphiphilic properties with self-assembling ability. In-vitro activity studies confirmed that quercetin grafting does not diminish but rather increases antimicrobial activity of the original chitosan (CS) and provided the ...
... BACKGROUND: Hami melon (Cucumis melo var. saccharinus) is a popular fruit in China because of its excellent taste, which is largely determined by its physicochemical characteristics, including flesh texture, sugar content, aroma, and nutrient composition. However, the mechanisms by which these characteristics are regulated have not yet been determined. In this study, we monitored changes in the fr ...
melons, etc ; Aphidoletes aphidimyza; Eupeodes americanus; Myzus persicae; adults; aphidophagous predators; biological control agents; eggs; longevity; pepper; potatoes; predation; pupal development; sex ratio; survival rate; North America; Show all 16 Subjects
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... Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae) are a major economic problem in numerous crops, including pepper, melon, and potato. Larvae of the American hoverfly, Eupeodes americanus (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Syrphidae), are common aphidophagous natural enemies in agrosystems in North America. The objective of the present study was to characterize the development cycle of E. americanus in order to evaluate its poten ...
melons, etc ; Cucumis melo; adsorption; ambient temperature; chemometrics; fruit quality; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; headspace analysis; odors; polydimethylsiloxane; principal component analysis; solid phase microextraction; volatile organic compounds; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Volatile compounds produce the aroma of fruits such as melons (Cucumis melo) and therefore play a key role in fruit quality. Here, we optimized experimental parameters to evaluate the effect of blending time, extraction temperature and time, different fibers, sample weight, different columns, and salt on the volatile composition of melons was performed using headspace solid-phase microextraction ( ...