Ochratoxin A (OTA) producing fungi are members of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. Nowadays, there are about 20 species accepted as OTA producers, which are distributed in three phylogenetically related but distinct groups of aspergilli of the subgenus Circumdati and only in two species of the subgenus Penicillium. At the moment, P. verrucosum and P. nordicum are the only OTA producing s...

Thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs) and chitinases are the main constituents of so-called protein hazes which can form in finished white wine and which is a great concern of winemakers. These soluble pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins are extracted from grape berries. However, their distribution in different grape tissues is not well documented. In this study, proteins were first separately extracte...

BACKGROUND The objective of the present study was to determine the phytochemical content and the protective effect of red grape skin extract (RGSE) against fructose-mediated protein oxidation. In addition, RGSE was screened for its potential as an antioxidant using various in vitro models. METHODS Antioxidant activity was measured by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), hydroxyl radical scav...

Hard carbon is one of the most promising anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. In this work, new types biomass-derived hard carbons were obtained through pyrolysis different kinds agro-industrial biowaste (corncob, apple pomace, olive mill solid waste, defatted grape seed and dried skin). Furthermore, influence pretreating samples by hydrothermal carbonization acid hydrolysis was also studi...

This study investigates the metabolome of 26 experimental cool-climate wines made from 22 grape varieties using two different protocols for wine analysis by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (¹H-NMR) spectroscopy. The wine samples were analyzed as-is (wet) and as dried samples. The NMR datasets were preprocessed by alignment and mean centering. No normalization or scaling was performed. The "we...

Muscadine grape (Muscadinia rotundifolia [Michx.]) is a fruit crop native to America; it adapts well wide range of biotic and abiotic stresses have thus been grown vinified throughout the southeastern US for centuries. Currently, farmers grow approximately 5,000 acres almost 100 improved muscadine-grape varieties commercial use. Recent research demonstrated fruit’s significant contribution bene...

Dried figs or Ficus carica (L) are nutritionally rich fruit. Figs are one of the highest sources of calcium and fiber along with copper, manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium and vitamin K besides being good source of flavonoid and polyphenols including gallic acid chlorogenic acid, syringe acid and rutin. It is useful in treatment of liver and spleen disorders, to cure piles and in treatmen...

In this study Illumina MiSeq was performed to investigate microbial diversity in soil, leaves, grape, grape juice and wine. A total of 1,043,102 fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) reads and 2,422,188 high quality bacterial 16S rDNA sequences were used for taxonomic classification, revealed five fungal and eight bacterial phyla. At the genus level, the dominant fungi were Ascomycota, Sorda...

We overview the GRAPE (GRAvity piPE) project. The goal of the GRAPE project is to accelerate the astrophysical N -body simulations. Since almost all computing time is spent for the evaluation of the gravitational force between particles, we can greatly accelerate many N -body simulations by developing a specialized hardware for the force calculation. In 1989, the first such hardware, GRAPE-1, w...