Exclusion cages were used to compare the incidence and severity of feeding injury from brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), on ‘Redhaven’ peaches, ‘Golden Delicious’ apples, and ‘Smoothee Golden’ apples at harvest, following sequential periods of exposure to natural H. halys populations during the 2011 and 2012 growing seasons in Virginia. The fruit us...

For the years 2012–2018, we investigated occurrence of storage diseases caused by fungi on four cultivars apples grown in central part Poland. The fruits were picked orchards managed with Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices and stored a cold room for 5–7 months. Depending season, apple cultivar localization orchard, incidence was different. On cvs “Gala”, “Ligol” “Golden Delicious”, bull...

BACKGROUND Synthetic antioxidants and antimicrobials are losing ground to their natural counterparts and therefore, the food industry has motivated to seek other natural alternatives. Apple pomace, a by-product in the processing of apples, is rich in polyphenols, and plant polyphenols have been used as food additives owing to their strong antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. The goal of th...

This study pursues the detection of bruised areas caused by mechanical impact on Golden Delicious apples using chlorophyll fluorescence imagery. When a fruit is impacted by a mechanical force and a bruise occurs, the chlorophyll nuclei inside the peel are damaged, which causes a reduction in fluorescence excitation compared to non-impacted areas. This difference allows automated detection of br...

El trabajo se realizó en Montecillo, Texcoco, México, durante 1997. Se estudió la respuesta del manzano (Malus domestica Borkh)cv. Golden Delicious de dos años edad a diferentes niveles humedad (fertirriego, FR; acolchado, AC; y temporal, TM), fertilización orgánica (con sin) varios portainjertos (MM.111, MM.106, M.7, M.26). Los factores analizaron un diseño bloques al azar, con arreglo parcela...