Fruit including berries have been demonstrated to exhibit a broad spectrum of benefits including protection against cardiovascular, neurological, and lung diseases, as well as having antioxidant, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic and anti-aging properties. These protective effects are reported to be due to their high content of bioactive compounds, such as vitamin C, vitamin E, phe...

The aim of 3-year experiment was to evaluate quality and chemical composition of blue honeysuckle berries cultivar ‘Czarna’ and non-specified seedling “N” as dependent on time of ripening. The results obtained showed that berries harvested later were bigger but less firm. Furthermore, an increase of soluble solids content was observed in fruit of both cultigens at the end of harvest (for seedli...

An increasing world population and the competitive nature of the stone fruit market, particularly nectarines [(Prunus persica var. nectarine)], demand the selection of fruit with high quality attributes, flavor, and a wide range of maturity. Information on this subject is limited at the present time. In search of superior nectarines, a trial was conducted to study growing degree days (GDD), ful...

The antioxidant activity and the phenolic and α-tocopherol content of 10 Northern Italian mono- and multi-varietal extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs), after early and late olive harvests, was analyzed. A hierarchical cluster analysis was used to evaluate sample similarity. Secoiridoids (SIDs), lignans and flavonoids were the most abundant phenolic compounds identified. The organic Casaliva (among ...

The national strategic management plan for the mourning dove calls for the implementation of an operational monitoring program of recruitment rates that is national in scale. Age ratios estimates, i.e. juveniles per adult, generated from harvest wing collections are a potentially efficient method for large-scale monitoring of recruitment for the species. Generating unbiased estimates of recruit...

Flight periods of the cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cingulata (Loew), were compared in the major sweet and tart cherry-growing regions of Michigan, among neglected orchards, managed orchards, and natural areas containing the ancestral host, black cherry. Traps were deployed from early June to late September 2005 and 2006. Captures indicated that cherry fruit fly has an early flight (June-July) i...

Effective and safe pharmacologic inhibition of the cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) has been a goal of cancer researchers for many years. CDKs are attractive therapeutic targets in cancer for two main reasons first, some tumors harbor dependencies on particular CDKs for their initiation and maintained growth; second, there is a surprising amount of redundancy between various CDKs in maintaining ...

an increasing world population and the competitive nature of the stone fruit market, particularly nectarines [(prunus persica var. nectarine)], demand the selection of fruit with high quality attributes, flavor, and a wide range of maturity. information on this subject is limited at the present time. in search of superior nectarines, a trial was conducted to study growing degree days (gdd), ful...