Fruit and vegetables contain carotenoid pigments, which accumulate in human skin, contributing to its yellowness. This effect has a beneficial impact on appearance. The aim was to evaluate associations between diet (fruit, vegetable and dietary carotenoid intakes) and skin color in young women. Ninety-one Caucasian women (Median and Interquartile Range (IQR) age 22.1 (18.1-29.1) years, BMI 22.9...

Fruit color-break is the visual manifestation of the developmentally regulated transition of chloroplasts to chromoplasts during fruit ripening and often involves biosynthesis of copious amounts of carotenoids concomitant with massive breakdown of chlorophyll. Regulation of chlorophyll breakdown at different physiological and developmental stages of the plant life cycle, particularly at fruit c...

In this paper we discuss the influence of semantically unexpected information on the prosodic realization of contrast. For this purpose, we examine the interplay between unexpectedness and various discourse factors that have been claimed to enhance the accentuation of contrastive information: contrast direction, syntactic status, and discourse distance. We conducted a production experiment in D...

There exist many different approaches for image segmentation. Most of these segmentation techniques were motivated by specific application purposes. In this article, we present an unsupervised segmentation algorithm through a multiresolution approach which uses both color and edge information in order to segment fruit images. In addition, we use a Quadtree structure that speeds up the whole pro...

Many segmentation techniques are available in the literature and some of them have been widely used in different application problems. Most of these segmentation techniques were motivated by specific application purposes. In this article we present the preliminary results of an unsupervised segmentation algorithm through a multiresolution method using color information for fruit inspection task...

Although different genotypes of mamey sapote with distinct pulp colors are consumed in countries from Central to South America, in-depth knowledge on genotype-related differences of their carotenoid profile is lacking. Since the fruit was found to contain the potentially vitamin A-active keto-carotenoids sapotexanthin and cryptocapsin, we sought to qualitatively and quantitatively describe the ...

Fruit ripeness identification is hard to measure especially when it involves color as main indicator. Suitable color model must be chosen to determine the right color for the ripeness identification. Hue, Saturation and Value (HSV) are proved to be a better choice because it can define the color intensity. Besides, it also helps to choose colors which are similar to the eyes. Manual grading pro...

Color is an important determinant of pomegranate fruit quality and commercial value. To understand the genetic factors controlling color in pomegranate, chemical, molecular and genetic characterization of a "white" pomegranate was performed. This unique accession is lacking the typical pomegranate color rendered by anthocyanins in all tissues of the plant, including flowers, fruit (skin and ari...

the use of compounds inhibiting ethylene production is very important in post-harvest technology of fruits. sweet cherry is a non-climacteric fruit with capability of ethylene production during storage period. factors that decrease ethylene production would increase fruits storage life. in this research sweet cherry fruits of mashhad cv. were sprayed with different concentrations of salicylic a...

We have studied a genomic library of introgression lines from the Solanum pimpinellifolium accession TO-937 into the genetic background of the "Moneymaker" cultivar in order to evaluate the accession's breeding potential. Overall, no deleterious phenotypes were observed, and the plants and fruits were phenotypically very similar to those of "Moneymaker," which confirms the feasibility of transl...