The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of solution concentration, immersion time and temperature on the osmotic dehydration (OD) of summer onion. OD was done using sucrose, salt and combined (sucrose-salt) solution. In this study three sucrose (40,50 and 60%), five salt (5,10,15,20 and 25%) and five sucrosesalt (combine) solution (40:15, 45:15, 45:20 50:15 and 55:15 %) wer...

Two new species of Desmosomatidae, Eugerdella kurabyssalis sp. nov. and Parvochelus serricaudis sp. nov., are described from the Northwest Pacific open abyssal plain to the east of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. These species constituted about one fourth of all collected desmosomatid specimens of the KuramBio expedition (2012), indicating it may be the most abundant species of the family in this a...

High-resolution structures of proteins remain the most valuable source for understanding their function in the cell and provide leads for drug design. Since the availability of sufficient protein structures to tackle complex problems such as modeling backbone moves or docking remains a problem, alternative approaches using small, recurrent protein fragments have been employed. Here we present t...

Concentrating tomato juice to paste during the tomato season allows for preservation and long-term storage, but subsequent dilution for formulation of value-added products is known to result in a loss of consistency. To understand the reasons for this, samples of unconcentrated juice, processing intermediates, and concentrated paste were collected from an industrial processing plant during norm...

The study was undertaken to determine the potential of general cross combinations in sugarcane, obtained by open pollinating the female parents, to generate variants for Brix (percent total soluble solids) content and frequency distribution pattern of variants, hence generated. Using Brix (an indicator of sucrose content) as selection criterion, 819 ratooned seedlings raised from five general c...

Conductivity-based vacuum pan controllers dominate the Australian sugar industry. A new scheme, based on Brix control of the massecuite and mother molasses is proposed. Multi-loop control of the process is demonstrated, whereby the massecuite Brix is controlled by manipulating the liquor/A molasses feed rate to the pan and the mother molasses Brix is controlled by manipulating the steam flow ra...

The mode of furfural accumulation was determined in aseptically filled containers of single-strength orange juice and concentrates during storage at six different temperatures. Results showed that furfural accumulated in orange juice more rapidly than in concentrates of 34,44, and 58 OBrix. There was 4 times the amount of furfural in orange juice (12 "Brix) than in concentrate (58 "Brix) stored...

The temperature range of growth was 5-39.5 C. Candida krusei was able to grow at 46 C. Torulopsis albida was able to grow at 0 C. The sugar tolerance was 50-55O Brix syrup. Saccharomyces ro8ei and Torulopsis lactis-condensi were able to tolerate 600 Brix syrup. Attractivity tests with dried-fruit beetles indicated that they responded most to Candida krusei, then Hanseniaspora valbyensis, fig ti...

the harvest date more influenced on postharvest quality during storage. in present study, fruits were harvested at four date base on total soluble solids content (5.5, 6.5, 7.5, and 8.5%) and then stored at 0.5 ºc and 80-90% rh, for 18 weeks. the samples were taken in 6th, 12th and 18th interval weeks and evaluated some parameters including weightless, losses, firmness, tss, ta, tss/ta, ascorbi...