the current experiment was carried out to evaluate qualitative and quantitativeof three melons (cucumis melo gp. ameri) accssions named zardjalal, ananasi and khanoti. the experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with 16 treatments and three replications at research field of jahad-e-daneshgahi, campus of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran. five ...

In this work we studied the relationship between kiwifruit dry matter (DW) measured using the destructive method with a fruit dehydrator (Nesco/American Harvest®, Wisconsin, USA) and a non-destructive Kiwi meter sensor (Turoni Inc., Forli, Italy). This was an approach to develop a reliable non-destructive method to predict harvest and postharvest quality based on dry matter. There was a signifi...

Industry tomatoes are produced under a range of climatic conditions and practices which significantly impact on main quality traits of harvested fruits. However, the quality of tomato intended for processing is currently addressed on delivery through color and Brix only, whereas other traits are overlooked. Very few works provided an integrated view of the management of tomato puree quality thr...

Two field experiments were conducted on sweet pepper plants (cv. California Wonder) during the successive summer seasons of 2000 and 2001, in the Agricultural Experimental station, Alexandria University, at Abies. The objective of these experiments was to determine the effects of nitrogen rates (60, 90 and 120 kg fed -1 ) and their application systems (three, four, five and six split applicatio...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of nacl application on yield and some growth parameters of tomato (lycopersicum esculentum cv. falkato). the study was carried out during september 2005 until may 2006 using soilless culture. the plants were fed with a complete nutrient solution, of electrical conductivity at levels of (a) 1.5 (control) (b) 3.5, (c) 5.5, (d) 6.5 dsm-1 repli...

The long-term objective of tomato breeders is to identify metabolites that contribute to defining the target flavour and to design strategies to enhance it. This paper reports the results of network analysis, based on metabolic phenotypic and sensory data, to highlight important relationships among such traits. This tool allowed a reduction in data set complexity, building a network consisting ...

This paper presents studies of the level of some gamma radioactive elements and heavy metals in fruits, vegetables and plants from Lublin. Potassium K isotope was the most prevalent element in the examined samples. It concentrated mainly in aboveground parts of some vegetables, for example in parsley and carrots haulm and in leaves of red beet and leek (from 1135 to 1940 Bq/kg). Considerably lo...

The density of unripe kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C.F. Liang et A.R. Ferguson cv. Hayward) early in storage was investigated as a means of determining the current fruit dry matter (DM) and total sugar-plus-starch concentrations, and of predicting DM and soluble solid concentrations later when the fruit had ripened. To investigate the robustness of the density relationships with DM...

CO, exchange rates per unit dry weight, measured in the field on attached fruits of the late-maturing Cal Red peach cultivar, at 1200 nmol photons m s ' and in dark, and photosynthetic rates, calculated by the difference between the rates of CO, evolution in light and dark, deelined over the growing season. Caleulated phetosynthetic rates per fruit increased over the season with increasing frui...