Dabai or Canarium odontophyllum Miq., from the family Burseraceae, is an important indigenous fruit to Borneo Island. However, it is a highly perishable fruit with short shelf life. Postharvest technology such as modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) can be used to maintain highly perishable fresh fruit quality and increase its shelf life. There is not much work has been carried out to study effe...

The objective of the present study was to assess to what extent fruit and vegetable intakes track over a 24-year time period and to assess longitudinal associations between fruit and vegetable intakes and (change in) BMI and sum of skinfolds. Dietary intake and anthropometrics were repeatedly assessed for 168 men and women between the ages of 12 and 36 years. Linear general estimating equations...

Based on the functional-structural plant model GreenLab, a common plant category tomato was selected as a test case in order to analyze the impact of plant density on the yield. A yield optimization model was set up based on minimum ripe fruit weight constraints, fruit weight serve as the objective function for the bound-constrained optimization problem. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algori...

abstract use of organic fertilizer in production of organic products is important. a field experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of poultry manure on some growth characteristics and crop yield of iranian melons. the design was split plot in a randomized complete block design with four replications. levels of poultry manure (pm) included: 0, 5, 10, 15 and 20 tons...

generally, fruit trees should produce sufficient yield annually through their economic life. fruit trees usually produce flowers over their ability of productivity. if all of the flowers are converted to fruit, the tree will be weak and poor smaller fruit will be produced and it may cause alternate bearing. thus some flowers must be removed by hand, mechanically or chemically. in this study, th...

growth in plants is defined as irreversible increase in volume and size. these changes are varied depending on stage of growth and physiological activity of the fruit tree. this research was conducted to determine the duration period of fruit growth and development and to come up with a mathematical model representing the relationship between fruit diameter, volume, and fruit fresh and dry weig...

Auxin is one of the most prominent phytohormones regulating many aspects of fleshy fruit development including fruit set, fruit size through the control of cell division and cell expansion, and fruit ripening. To shed light on the role of auxin fruit ripening, we have previously shown that Sl-ARF4 is a major player in mediating the auxin control of sugar metabolism in tomato fruit (cv MicroTom)...

This study explored the morphological characteristics and effects of pollination methods on fruit set and characteristics in 4 red pitaya (Hylocereus spp.) clones. The distinctive morphological recognition and classification among pitaya clones were confirmed by the stem, flower and fruit features. The fruit production season was indicated from the beginning of May to the end of August – the be...

electrical properties of fruits are accepted indicators for detecting fruit quality. electrical resistanceone reluctance can detect quality factors and are sensitive to variations in the concentration and stateof water. therefore, these properties can be associated with maturity, damage, overripe condition,decay or other quality factors. in most of previous research on electrical resistance and...

the role of manure and urea on yield and some fruit characteristics of strawberry cv. kurdistan were studied during 2002-2004 growing season. the experiment was a factorial one based on a randomized complete block design including four levels of urea(0, 50, 100, 150 kg/ha) and three levels of manure (0, 20, 40 t/ha) in three replications. the results showed that application of manure along with...