Quality traits such as flavour and texture are assuming a greater importance in crop breeding programmes. This study takes advantage of potato germplasm differentiated in tuber flavour and texture traits. A recently developed 44,000-element potato microarray was used to identify tuber gene expression profiles that correspond to differences in tuber flavour and texture as well as carotenoid cont...

Two novel ingredients were incorporated into spreadable liver pâtés to study their effect on physicochemical and sensory characteristics and their possible use in the meat industry. Fresh date (Phoenix dactylifera, cv. Confitera) co-products, as a paste (0, 2.5 and 7.5%), and annatto (Bixa orellana) extract (0 and 128 mg/kg), as a colourant, and their combinations were incorporated into liver p...

Effect of retort processing on the shelf life and safety of ethnic Indian food product namely soya peas curry was investigated. Ready-to-eat soya peas curry was packed in laminated retort pouches and processed in a steam-air retort with overriding pressure. Time-temperature profile of processing was determined and the same was used for heat penetration characteristics. The thermal processing pa...

Fruit textural characteristics can affect the storage, transportation, and processing of plum ( Prunus salicina Lindl) in commercial production. We analyzed 23 cultivars with marked differences fruit traits. Basic physicochemical indicators fruits were determined using puncture testing texture profile analysis. Furthermore, through combined application cluster analysis principal component analy...

This thesis is about the perception of texture similarity and the procedures underlying its computation. A model of texture similarity was engineered using a collection of simulated early-visual operations. These operations include oriented, multi-scale linear ltering; rectifying non-linearity; divisive normalization; low-order stochastic modeling; recursive cascading; and whitening. The rst ai...

in temperate forests canopy gaps play an important role in driving stand dynamics. the purpose of this research was to compare soil characteristics in forest gaps with several size and its relation to beech regeneration density in lalis forest, chalous. in order to investigate factors, three gap sizes as small gap (200 m2), medium gap (400 m2), and large gap (600 m2) with three replicate were s...