Silicon (Si) acts to reduce biotic and abiotic stresses in plants. Herein, we aimed assess the impact of an amorphous silica-based fertilizer (ASF) applied soil on yield, mineral nutrition, chlorophyll fluorescence, postharvest quality two cultivars table grapes grown a semiarid climate. The Arra 15 BRS Vitoria were submitted treatments control, 175 or 350 kg ha? 1 ASF. Leaf fruit samples colle...

generally, fruit trees should produce sufficient yield annually through their economic life. fruit trees usually produce flowers over their ability of productivity. if all of the flowers are converted to fruit, the tree will be weak and poor smaller fruit will be produced and it may cause alternate bearing. thus some flowers must be removed by hand, mechanically or chemically. in this study, th...

Background: The timing of maternal weight change in pregnancy may be an important determinant of birth weight. The objective of this study was to measure weight gain patterns from early pregnancy until delivery, and to examine the relationship between prenatal weight gain and low birth weight. Methods: A total of 500 pregnant women within 15-20 days of conception, with confirmed pregnancies and...

Oral feeding of 50% EtOH of Solanum xanthocarpum berry to male rats at the dose of 0.5 gm/kg body weight caused arrest of spermotagenesis. The number of spermatocytes (primary and secondary) and spermatids were significantly reduced (P<0.05 to 0.001). The total number of immature and mature leydig cells were significantly decreased (P<0.001), whereas degenerating cells were significantly increa...

Observational studies suggest that increased fruit and vegetable consumption can contribute to weight maintenance and facilitate weight loss when substituted for other energy dense foods. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of berries on acute appetite and energy intake. Twelve unrestrained pre-menopausal women (age 21 ± 2 y; BMI 26.6 ± 2.6 kg m(-2); body fat 23...

Recent advances in machine vision technologies have provided a multitude of automatic tools for recognition and quantitative estimation grapevine bunch features 2D images. However, converting them into weight (BuW) is still big challenge. This paper aims to compare the explanatory power number visible berries (#vBe) area (BuA) images, order predict BuW. A set 300 bunches from four cultivars wer...