BACKGROUND In line with the current tendency towards the production of the so-called safe foods, the use of environmentally-friendly methods for the extraction of polyphenols from fruits has been sought. Citric acid is a good solvent in the preparation of phenolic compounds for the food and pharmaceutical industries because it is a natural antioxidant and is non-toxic for the environment. Furth...

As a low cost byproduct, Actinidia deliciosa shell can be made into sorbent materials which are used in heavy metals immobilization. It has been investigated as a replacement for currently expensive methods of heavy metal immobilization from soil. In this study, soil samples were contaminated with copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) at the rate of 600 ppm in separate dishes. The 5% Actinidia deliciosa sh...

Colour development in fruit of Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis ‘Hort16A’, the new yellowfleshed cultivar produced commercially in New Zealand, was monitored during three seasons in four 42 New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2003, Vol. 31 The pericarp of ‘Hort16A’ fruit changes from a light green colour to a light yellow colour as fruit develop on the vine. Virtually no co...

Red-fleshed kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis Planch. 'Hongyang') is a promising commercial cultivar due to its nutritious value and unique flesh color, derived from vitamin C and anthocyanins. In this study, we obtained transcriptome data of 'Hongyang' from seven developmental stages using Illumina sequencing. We mapped 39-54 million reads to the recently sequenced kiwifruit genome and other data...

Yapılan çalışmada, Balıkesir ili Gönen İlçesinde bulunan Ovasında yetiştirilen ve her geçen yıl yeni kurulan bahçe miktarı artan kivi yetiştiriciliğinin yıllara göre gelişimi araştırılmış Ovası’nda kivilerin muhafaza performansı incelenmiştir. 
 ovasında ilk bahçesini kuran yetiştiricinin bahçesinden optimal hasat zamanında toplanan kivilerde meyve boyu, eni, ağırlığı, kabuk kalınlığı gibi...