The experiment was established at private apricot orchard near Cacak (Western Serbia) during 2010 and 2011. In the present study we wanted to determine the physicochemical attributes, phenolics content and antioxidant capacity of three new Serbian cultivars (‘Aleksandar’, ‘Biljana’, ‘Vera’) grafted on Myrobalan seedlings. Results indicated that physico-chemical attributes significantly varied a...

Among the various types of agricultural waste, significant amounts of energy can be obtained from woodchips derived from comminuted pruning residues. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of using kiwi orchard clear-cut biomass for energy production. The field trial was conducted in a commercial kiwi (Actinidia chinensis) orchard located in Northwest Italy. We evaluated the biomass yield, ...

Respected on both sides of the Atlantic for questioning the tenets underlying the pathophysiology of diabetes and its complications, Trevor Orchard continues to influence the fields of epidemiology and medicine. With a self-effacing style that might be described as typically British, he remains provocative and prominent among the research community. An Englishman educated in Wales and living in...

Court-ordered monitoring of blood cholinesterases (ChEs) from orchard workers in Washington State is underway. In 2008, the mean red blood cell acetylcholinesterase (AChE, EC 3.1.1.7) activity was 9.65 +/- 1.11 micromoles/min/ml (n = 1,793) and the mean serum (BChE, 3.1.1.6) activity was 5.19 +/- 0.90 micromoles/min/ml (n = 1,811). Determinations were made using the Ellman assay and automated e...

This paper addresses the design, development and field-testing of a localization system for agricultural vehicles. The Autonomous Prime Movers (APMs) are electrical vehicles designed to operate in specialty crops, more specifically in orchards. In order to accomplish geo-referenced tasks inside the crops, the vehicles must know their pose with sub-metric accuracy. One of our requirements is tha...

A conventional, axial‐flow, air‐blast orchard sprayer was used to make applications to the outside row of a semi‐dwarf apple block. Fluorescent tracer was applied at the same rate using either disc‐core nozzle sets or air‐induction nozzles fitted with flat‐fan tips. The experiment included measuring the percent area of spray coverage on leaves after three variations in spray application method....

Abstract Visible and near infrared (VIS-NIR) spectroscopy is a non-destructive, fast, practical reliable technique to determine maturity quality attributes in apple fruit. However, the effects of cultivar growing conditions on predictive performance equipment must be determined before its commercial application industry. This study was carried out evaluate efficiency VIS-NIR portable spectromet...