Citrus fruit tree has great commercial importance with mandarin (Citrus reticulata) as the second most important citrus crop and includes a wide range of true hybrid cultivars; however, there is lack studies about characterization evaluation germplasm for Physico-chemical morphological traits. A study on varietal selection been underway at National Research Programme since 2005-06. Evaluation s...

background: an essential oil is a liquid that is generally distilled from the leaves, stems, flowers or other elements of a plant. objective: cumin (cuminum cyminum l.) essential oil (ceo) was analyzed to determine oil component. antifungal effect of ceo was determined by in vitro technique. in second stage, effect of different concentrations of ceo by pdm on postharvest life of strawberry (fra...

Pomegranate is a subtropical fruit that is widely consumed as fresh fruit and juice, however, its postharvest life is limited mainly due to storage disorders. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of nitric oxide (NO) on antioxidant activity and quality attributes of pomegranate fruit. The fruits were dipped for two minutes into different NO concentrations (0, 30, 100, 300 or 1000 µ...

The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of dipping time and temperature of hot water and type of packaging on qualitative traits of Orlando tangelo variety of tangerine. This study was conducted as a factorial experiment in a completely randomized design with three repeats. The treatments consisted of dipping in hot water at seven water levels at 53°C and 58°C each for 1, 2 and 4 minutes...

The aim of this research was to study 33 Pistachio accessions and determine their genetic relationships. Thirty-one morphological characters (17 quantitative and 14 qualitative) together with Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) marker data were used for this purpose. Factor analysis was used to determine the effective characteristics and the number of main factors which determined seven m...

  Background: Garlic is a valuable medicinal plant with variability in desirable morphological and physiological characteristics. The analysis of genetic diversity plays an important role in breeding programs. The RAPD technique could be very effective in detecting genetic variation in garlic.  Objective: The objective of the present work was to detect molecular polymorphism among Iranian garli...

rhizomania is the most important disease of sugar beet in iran and some other parts of the world, and plays an essential role in decreasing sugar yield in fields. the best approach to control this disease is to use resistant varieties. tagging the resistance genes in breeding programs, by molecular markers is necessary. in this study, some breeding populations and commercial varieties of sugar ...

the harvest date more influenced on postharvest quality during storage. in present study, fruits were harvested at four date base on total soluble solids content (5.5, 6.5, 7.5, and 8.5%) and then stored at 0.5 ºc and 80-90% rh, for 18 weeks. the samples were taken in 6th, 12th and 18th interval weeks and evaluated some parameters including weightless, losses, firmness, tss, ta, tss/ta, ascorbi...

The application of lanthanum modified bentonite (Phoslock®) and polyaluminium chloride (PAC) is popular in the restoration European temperate lakes; however, effects on concentrations phosphorus (P) both water sediments have been poorly evaluated to date. We studied Phoslock® + PAC total (TP), particulate (PP), soluble reactive (SRP), suspended solids (TSS) chlorophyll a (Chla) water, different...