Measuring fruit morphology and color traits of vegetable and fruit crops in an objective and reproducible way is important for detailed phenotypic analyses of these traits. Tomato Analyzer (TA) is a software program that measures 37 attributes related to two-dimensional shape in a semi-automatic and reproducible manner. Many of these attributes, such as angles at the distal and proximal ends of...

This study examined Stroop-like interference in the fruit Stroop test among 271 5 12-year-old children and young adults divided into five age groups: 64 5 6-year-olds, 65 7 8-year-olds, 60 9 10-year-olds, 46 11 12-year-olds, and 36 young adults (18 23-year-olds). Participants were administered a paper-and-pencil version of the fruit Stroop test, which includes the canonical color task, the supe...

Fruit color and odor are the main features regulating the rate of fruit predation and dispersal. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of odor and color on fruit predators and dispersers. The present study was conducted in a 30ha area of secondary forest in Southeastern Atlantic Brazil. This area was divided into two transects, in which four points were marked with a 30m distance from...

Assigning a basic color name to an object and rating the amount of a particular hue is a fundamental visual capability. Traditional color scaling studies have used increment flashes or isoluminant stimuli of a homogeneous color. Natural objects, however, do not contain a single color but are characterized by a distribution of different chromatic hues. Here we study color scaling using photograp...

this study evaluated the use of the solar dryer at esfahan agricultural research center for drying prunes. a factorial experiment was carried using a randomized complete block design with four replications. the four methods used to accelerate prune drying were: control group (no treatment), mechanical perforation at one week of drying, blanching, submersion in australian cold dip method. the dr...

One of the requirements of a fruit harvesting robot is the ability to recognize and locate fruit from the leaf and branch portions; machine vision system is one of the methods used to detect the location of the fruit. This paper showed the development of a machine vision algorithm that would guide an apple harvesting hand prototype. The objectives of this study were to differentiate the fruit f...

This study evaluated the effect of foliar biostimulants on fruit quality of adult 'Valencia' orange and 'Biancolilla' olive trees. Half of the selected orange and olive trees were sprayed twice before harvest with the SUNRED® commercial mix containing phenylalanine, methionine, mono-saccharides and oxylipins from plant extracts as well as potassium salts and urea. Orange and olive yields and fr...