Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) is one of the most cultivated nut crops worldwide, with Turkey (665,000 tonnes) and Italy (140,560 representing leading countries in global production (Król & Gantner, 2020). During summer 2022, a survey was done to identify fungal species associated hazelnut kernel rot five commercial orchards Latium region Italy. A newly recorded isolated from diseased nuts using s...

Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) is seed predator that has the ability to affect the diversity and abundance of certain tree species in a forest. This study tested the seed preference of eastern chipmunks on the border of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan at University of Notre Environmental Research Center. Cafeteria style feeding trials were done in a laboratory to test the pref...

BACKGROUND Allergenicity of foods can be influenced by processing. Tree nuts are an important source of nutrition and increasingly consumed; however, processing methods are quite variable and data are currently lacking on the effects of processing on allergenicity. OBJECTIVE To perform a systematic literature review on the effects of food processing on the allergenicity of tree nuts. METHOD...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of IgE reactivity against genuine walnut and hazelnut allergens is poorly defined. OBJECTIVE The IgE response to walnut and hazelnut was investigated in Italian patients with primary allergy to these nuts. METHODS Sera from 36 patients allergic to hazelnut and/or walnut, not reactive to PR-10, profilin, and LTP, underwent immunoblot analysis with extracts of both n...

BACKGROUND There is very few data available on the prevalence of food hypersensitivity among adults with asthma. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of self-reported adverse reactions and IgE sensitization to the different foods and to determine the spectrum and the prevalence of food-related gastrointestinal symptoms in adults with and with no asthma. METHODS A cross sectiona...

Fusarium lateritium is a globally distributed plant pathogen. It was recently reported as the causal agent of nut gray necrosis (NGN) on hazelnut. Isolate characterization within F. lateritium was undertaken to investigate how morphological and molecular diversity was associated with host and geographic origin. Morphological studies combined with inter-simple-sequence repeat (ISSR) analysis, an...

BACKGROUND Patients sensitized to birch pollen frequently suffer from a food allergy to plant foods such as celery, carrots, or hazelnut. One of the main manifestations of birch pollen-related food allergy is the oral allergy syndrome. Skin tests and allergen-specific immunoglobulin (Ig) E determinations are poor predictors of such reactions when assessed by double-blind placebo-controlled food...

BACKGROUND Component-based diagnosis on multiplex platforms is widely used in food allergy but its clinical performance has not been evaluated in nut allergy. OBJECTIVE To assess the diagnostic performance of a commercial protein microarray in the determination of specific IgE (sIgE) in peanut, hazelnut, and walnut allergy. METHODS sIgE was measured in 36 peanut-allergic, 36 hazelnut-allerg...

This study investigated the effect of region on nut and biochemical traits in Mincane hazelnut cultivar. The was carried out Trabzon (Black Sea Region) Sakarya (Marmara districts, 2021 2022. material consisted cultivar grown both regions. Depending regions, weight ranged from 1.89 Sea) to 2.14 g (Marmara), while kernel 0.96 1.06 (Marmara). nuts obtained Black yielded highest total phenolics (11...

Hazelnut, a very important cash crop in Turkey, is frequently colonized by bark and ambrosia beetle species (Scolytinae). Some scolytine species may cause economic damage while other species do not; therefore, proper identification is important in orchard management. Extensive sampling demonstrated that the most common pest species in Turkey's hazelnut orchards are Anisandrus dispar, Xylosandru...