Corncob is an agriculture waste found to consist of 38.9% cellulose and 43.4% hemicellulose on dry solid (w/w %) basis and thus considered a potential source for fermentable sugars. These sugars can potentially be extracted through combined chemical pretreatment and enzymatic saccharification. The present study is aimed to optimized the pretreatment process by using variety of alkali and acids ...

Ink disease caused by the root-rot pathogen P. cinnamomi (Pc) threatens European sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) orchards, and growers increasingly graft susceptible C. traditional varieties on Pc-resistant hybrid commercial rootstocks. The influence of scion, rootstock, grafting per se vegetative budburst, growth, susceptibility to Pc defence-related hormone profile Castanea spp. are un...

Ohmic heating (OH) was evaluated as a post-harvest technology to improve chestnuts’ shelf-life (Castanea sativa Mill.) by controlling molds and insect larvae proliferation. Chestnuts were processed OH at 35, 45, 55 °C compared with untreated fruits the conventional hydrothermal (HT - 50 for 45 min), which is process currently used chestnut industry. Shelf-life studies carried out different atmo...

Soluble sugars are critical determinants of fruit quality and play a significant role in human nutrition. Chestnuts, rich soluble sugars, derive their sweetness from them. However, content varies with cultivar, location, environmental conditions. Traditional methods for determining sugar chestnuts time-consuming, laborious, destructive. Therefore, there is pressing need rapid, non-destructive, ...

American chestnut (Castanea dentata [Marsh.] Borkh.) dominated the eastern forests of North America, serving as a keystone species both ecologically and economically until the introduction of the chestnut blight, Cryphonectria parasitica, functionally eradicated the species. Restoration efforts include genetic transformation utilizing genes such as oxalate oxidase to produce potentially blight-...

Fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts represent a large, highly important, and growing industry. Nonetheless, little is known about their in vivo characterization and morphology, the effect of mechanical harvesting, peelability, postharvest mold, physiological decay, and internal quality. Currently, destructive techniques can be employed to evaluate samples for internal product attributes. However,...

Bu çalışmada seleksiyon çalışmaları ile öne çıkan 17 kestane (Castanea sativa Mill.) çeşit/genotip ülkemizde yetiştiriciliği yaygınlaşan iki hibrit x Castanea crenata) çeşit olmak üzere toplam 19 çeşit/genotipte erkek çiçek yapıları incelenmiş ve stamen tipi belirlenmiştir. Kestane çeşit/genotiplerin beşinin stamensiz, birinin kısa stamenli, dördünün orta boyda stamenli dokuzunun uzun olduğu Çe...

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A diarrheagenic toxin from culture extracts of Aspergillus wentii Wehmer isolated from weevil-damaged Chinese chestnuts was identified as emodin (2-methyl-4,5,7-trihydroxyanthraquinone). The orange-red, crystalline toxin (mp 255 to 257 C) showed ultraviolet absorption maxima in ethyl alcohol at 223, 250, 267, 290, and 442 nm, and infrared absorption maxima at 3,400 cm-1 (OH), 1,635, and 1,625 C...