BACKGROUND Increasing antioxidant levels in fruit through breeding is an important option to support higher antioxidant intake particularly when fruit consumption is low. Indeed, if nutritional components are also combined with a high standard of sensorial fruit quality, the perspective for consumer health can be further improved by encouraging more fruit consumption. Wild species are valued by...

Abstract The strawberry growth and fruit yield of five Korean cultivars in the tunnel-type greenhouse predicted using their growth. number leaves, petiole length, leaf length width, crown diameter, ratio red far-red (RFR) were measured during cultivation period. leaves all exhibited a similar trend this period; plant ‘Maehyang’ longest, trends except for ‘Jukhyang’, width ‘Arihyang’, was diamet...

in order to evaluate genetic relationship, diversity and possible genetically andphysical mixing of kurdistan cultivar with russian, american and european cultivars acollection of 33 samples including: 20 accessions of cv. kurdistan from different fieldsof kurdistan province, 7 russian and 6 american and european cultivars were analyzedusing 10 molecular markers. result indicated that in each m...

The anthocyanin composition was analysed in strawberry fruits from five different cultivars (cv. Eris, Oso Grande, Carisma, Tudnew and Camarosa). Twenty-five defined anthocyanin pigments were detected, most of them containing Pelargonidin (Pg) as aglycone; some cyanidin (Cy) derivatives were also found. Glucose and rutinose were the usual substituting sugars, although arabinose and rhamnose tat...

Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs), enzymes that are widely distributed in the plant kingdom, inhibit protein synthesis by depurinating rRNA and many other polynucleotidic substrates. Although RIPs show antiviral, antifungal, and insecticidal activities, their biological and physiological roles are not completely understood. Additionally, it has been described that RIP expression is augmente...