In order to clarify the influence of the rootstock cultivar and fruit storage on the texture of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruit, we examined the physical properties of the fruit, i.e., flesh firmness, placental firmness, skin toughness, and the crispness index. Cucumber fruits from own-rooted plants and from plants grafted onto the three rootstock cultivars of ‘Shin-tosa’ (Cucurbita maxima ...

By measuring the fluorescence spectra of pearls from various species of mother oysters, a distinction has already become possible as to whether the pearls are from Pinctada fucata, Pinctada maxima, Pteria penguin or Pinctada margaritifera. In this study, the fluorescence of pearls from freshwater bivalves was measured. The results have made it possible to distinguish freshwater pearls from the ...

This study aims to evaluate the adsorption isotherm of carbon microparticles prepared from pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) seeds for adsorbing curcumin (as a model dye). The results were derived and compared using kinetics approach based on several standard models, namely Langmuir, Temkin, Freundlich, Dubinin-Radushkevich models. second aim is effects particle size (from 100 1000 mm) characteristics...