Loquat fruit, popular all over the world for its mild, subacid, and sweet taste, has been classified as a non-climacteric fruit with very short postharvest life. The decays quickly after harvest, losses in titratable acidity, juiciness, internal browning occurs rapidly during shelf aim of our study was to assess effects cactus pear mucilage-based coating on quality, nutraceutical value, microbi...

The Cappadocia Region in Central Anatolia, Turkey is rich wild apricot genetic resources. In this study, a multivariate analysis method of metric and nonmetric multidimensional scaling (MDS) was used to classify 43 genotypes 5 standard cultivars by using Euclidean distance. MDS applied, based on dissimilarities, quantitative traits weight, height, width thickness fruit, stone kernel flesh/stone...

Maturity at harvest is a determining factor in fruit storage potential, especially such perishable species as plums (Prunus salicina L.). However, harvest´s logistics very complex, and large percentage of fruits are harvested more advanced stage maturity than the optimum recommended for long storage. Treatment with 1-MCP has shown to be effective reducing post-harvest deterioration rate Japanes...

a set of 29 persimmon genotypes were characterized using morphological characters and rapd markers. some fruit traits of: fresh weight, fruit length and diameter, firmness, fruit juice ph, ta, tss, flavor index, fruit skin and flesh color, seededness, leaf length and width were evaluated. analysis of variance for the investigated characters showed that genotypes were significantly different. re...

This study aimed to identify the efficiency of mechanical flower thinning (MFT) and its influence on apple fruit quality. In first experiment, ‘Arisoo’ flowers were subjected MFT with one hundred sixty-two (half) three twenty-four (full) strings at same rotor (300 rpm) tractor (6 km/h) speeds. Hand was performed as a control. The number removed in each terminal lateral cluster slightly higher f...

the most important quality indicator of fruits is the flesh firmness which is well correlated to their young’s modulus. in this research variation of vibration characteristics (shape modes, natural frequency) of apple due to change of material characteristics (density, young's models, poisson ratio) and apple volume was investigated using finite element simulation. an image processing technique...

Melatonin has been implicated in the regulation of ripening several types climacteric fruits, but its role apple is poorly understood. In this study, effectiveness melatonin influencing postharvest apples and interacting with ethylene biosynthesis process was investigated. Apples four local cultivars (Golden, Reineta, Blanquina Rabiosa) were harvest at an immature green stage immersed for 120 m...