Relevant in the selection of each crop, including watermelon is a comprehensive study source material to identify sources valuable traits and include them process order expand genetic diversity culture. According results research, create new for heterosis watermelon, screening monitoring vegetation period duration (number days from germination ripening) its components 118 (101 varieties, 17 hyb...

To determine the maturity of Strawberry fruit can be seen in color fruit. The ripe strawberries red and those that are not yet green. ripeness strawberries, classification carried out on using feature extraction waena. results classified K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) method. first method strawberry is (1) Hue Saturation Value (HSV) method, (2) KNN. From implementation results, success rate KNN 76%

Modern non-destructive optical-reflectance-based techniques for estimation of pigment (chlorophyll, carotenoid, anthocyanin, and flavonol) contents, the rate of onand off-tree ripening as well as for detection of common physiological disorders, such as sunscald, superficial scald, and water core, and other damages to apple fruit are reviewed with an emphasis on the methods developed by the auth...

While the left-coast furor over hang time and extended maturation rarely visits our cool-climate shores, New York is certainly feeling the heat this year. In the last three issues, both our analysis numbers and reports provide ample evidence that the warm weather in 2010 has resulted in early ripening and potential for longer overall hang time. Instead of the bright, lively, stillgreenbehind-th...

Textural properties provide information on the ingestibility, digestibility and state of ripeness or decay of sources of nutrition. Compared with our understanding of the chemosensory assessment of food, little is known about the mechanisms of texture detection. Here we show that Drosophila melanogaster can discriminate food texture, avoiding substrates that are either too hard or too soft. Man...

Effects of extraction solvent namely ethanol, diethylether-chloroform mixture, morphological matrix namely fruit pericarp seed and three ripening stages namely green, yellow and red on antioxidative activity of S. anguivi fruit were studied. Phytochemical screening and assessment of some antioxidative markers were evaluated. Result showed that all samples were endowed with variable amounts of r...

The aim of this study was the classification of olive oil according to the stage of ripeness of the olives used for its manufacture. A discriminant analysis was applied taking as dependent variables the fatty acids, triglycerides and sterols profile. The evolution of parameters of quality of the oils during ripening of the fruit has also been studied in three successive crops. The results of th...

Fresh-cut fruit slices prepared from partially ripened Bartlett pears had longer shelf life than those from Bosc, Anjou, and Red Anjou pears. Pear fruit ripeness, based on flesh firmness of 44 to 58 N, is optimal for fresh-cut pear slice processing. Pear slices derived from smaller size fruit (122 to 135 g) have greater cut surface discoloration and deteriorate more rapidly than slices derived ...

Oil palm, a plantation crop of major economic importance in Southeast Asia, is the predominant source of edible oil worldwide. We report the identification of the virescens (VIR) gene, which controls fruit exocarp colour and is an indicator of ripeness. VIR is a R2R3-MYB transcription factor with homology to Lilium LhMYB12 and similarity to Arabidopsis production of anthocyanin pigment1 (PAP1)....

Two barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) forage varieties – Hemus and Karnobat, with high and low Rubisco content in the fully expanded first leaves (Metodiev and Demirevska-Kepova, 1992), were compared in pot vegetation experiments in respect of yield. Changes in the content of leaf pigments, the levels of total soluble and Rubisco immunoreactive protein were followed during six phenophases: 3rd leaf, ...