Evolution of small-vacancy clusters in bcc Fe is simulated using a multiscale approach coupling an atomistic activation-relaxation method for sampling transition-state pathways with environment-dependent reaction coordinate calculations and a kinetic Monte Carlo simulation to reach time scales on the order of ~10⁴ s. Under vacancy-supersaturated condition, di- and trivacancy clusters form and g...

The production of cherry tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme ) is negatively affected by harsh environmental conditions such as extremely high and low temperatures, wind hail damage, pest disease infestation. These factors delay maturity cause uneven ripening, fruit abrasion, blemishes, which consequently result in poor quality reduced shelf life. Preharvest bagging an environmentall...

The relationship between carbon dioxide evolution and fruit ripening has been investigated widely for some of the deciduous fruits. With the apple and pear, in particular, it has been shown (4, 5) that changes in certain manifestations of maturity are accompanied by a greatly accelerated rate of respiration. Similar observations were made for the banana (2). This rapid increase in carbon dioxid...

The formation of cheese flavor mainly results from the production volatile compounds by microorganisms. We investigated how fine-tuning cheese-making process parameters changed volatilome in a semi-hard inoculated with Lactococcus (L.) lactis, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, and Propionibacterium (P.) freudenreichii. A standard (Std) was compared three variants technological itineraries: shorter...

Transcriptional studies in relation to fruit ripening generally aim to identify the transcriptional states associated with physiological ripening stages and the transcriptional changes between stages within the ripening programme. In non-climacteric fruits such as grape, all ripening-related genes involved in this programme have not been identified, mainly due to the lack of mutants for compara...

Degradative processes of fleshy fruit adapt depending on environmental conditions. Exposure banana to abiotic stress during ripening accelerates degradative that resemble Programmed Cell Death (PCD). This research evaluated the connection between Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) production and PCD over-ripening after exposure at pre-climacteric phase (before exogenous ethylene treatment). Mature-g...