this study was conducted to evaluate the quality of the red flesh apples and golab cultivars. two iranian red flesh apples from shahroud and four golab cultivars as well as ‘gala’ as control from damavand were selected in summer 2012. fruit physical characteristics including length, diameter, fresh weight and dry weight, firmness, color and their parameters were evaluated for each cultivar. the...

Textile wastewater contains substantial pollution loads in terms of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) and heavy metals. Phytoremediation used for removing heavy metals and other pollutants by aquatic macrophytes treatment systems (AMATS) is well established environmental protective technique. A lab scale stud...

Blackberries are very perishable with a limited shelf life due to high metabolic activity and susceptibility mechanical damage microbial attack. The effect of edible coatings (EC) based on candelilla wax (CW) guar gum (GG) the quality, life, bioactive-compounds content antioxidant blackberries stored at 25 ± 2 °C for 6 days, was evaluated. All EC contained GG (0.4%) gallic acid (GA)(0.06%); EC1...

Machine harvesting blueberry (Vaccinium sp.) alleviates labor costs and shortages but can reduce fruit quality. Installation of softer catching surfaces inside modified over-the-row harvesters (modified OTR) adjusting harvest intervals may improve quality packout. The objective this study was to determine the effect interval on fresh market northern highbush corymbosum L.) harvested using a OTR...

This research was conducted in the Post-Harvest Laboratory of Horticulture Department, Faculty Agriculture, Zagazig University, Egypt, during two seasons 2019 and 2020 to study effect dipping cherry tomatoes fruits solutions edible materials on quality storability storage at 7±2°C 90 ± 3% relative humidity for 28 days. Where were dipped chitosan nano particles (ChNPs) solution 0.5 1 %, Arabic g...

Improvement in physical and biochemical properties of fruits through cross-pollination is a highly variable phenomenon. It mainly depends on the species pollinator nature crop being pollinated. therefore imperative to quantify relative pollination effectiveness an insect for certain species. In present study, two native bees (i.e., Apis dorsata A. florea) syrphid flies Eristalinus aeneus Eupeod...

in order to evaluate the effect of water stress on fruit quality and quantity of some iranian melons, the experiment was set out in a split plot design with three replicates in research filed of university of zanjan in 2014. treatments consisted arrangement of three irrigation levels (starting irrigation at 100, 66 and 33 etc) and 11 genotypes of iranian melons (ʼkhatouniʻ, ʼkaliʻ, ʼorshangʻ, ʼ...

Tomato is a popular and extensively cultivated vegetable among the economically promising commodities in horticulture sector Kenya. It provides wide variety of nutrients with many health-related benefits. This study investigated effect integration pruning earthing up on postharvest. The experiments were carried out split-plot arranged randomized complete block design (RCBD) CRD for both field l...

In this paper, a cost-effective visible/near infrared optical prototype was tested for grape maturity monitoring. The device used to quantify the qualitative parameters of Chardonnay grapes, based on combination spectroscopic data and creation predictive models. acquisitions were performed directly in field through use 12 wavelengths vis/NIR range, i.e., 450, 500, 550, 570, 600, 610, 650, 680, ...

The purpose of the study was to compare basic fruit chemical composition of four highbush blueberry cultivars: ‘Spartan’, ‘Bluecrop’, ‘Jersey’ and ‘Blueray’. The plants were grown on plantation near Szczecin in the years 2001 – 2003. Basic chemical composition of fruit including total ash, crude fibre, total nitrogen, soluble solids, titratable acidity, dry weight and total polyphenol content w...