Seafood salad has been identified as a ready-to-eat food with a relatively high incidence of contamination by Listeria monocytogenes; however, little is known about the behavior of this pathogen in seafood salad as a function of product pH and storage temperature. To produce data towards the development of a predictive growth model, a 6-strain cocktail of L. monocytogenes was inoculated onto th...

Detection and early intervention of salad leaf related disease is a challenging problem for the salad-growing farmers with severe economic consequences. Sudden change in environmental condition, extreme weather condition, such as hail storm, high wind, very low temperature with humid condition or severe solar radiation can cause a series of scenarios, which can cause different diseases in salad...

This study aimed to evaluate the presence of coliforms in 50 samples (25 ready-to-eat vegetable salads and 25 handlers’ hands) collected randomly from restaurants Baghdad. The total coliform count Al-Sadria Hay al-Amel reached 4.78 4.32 log cfu/g, respectively, whereas those swab hands same areas 3.70 3.90 respectively. percentages fecal bacteria salad were 35% 32%, hand swabs 41% 36%, Two isol...

Proteins often have several motifs with distinct evolutionary histories. Proteins with similar motifs have similar biochemical properties and thus related biological functions. We constructed a unique comparative genomics database termed the SALAD database (http://salad.dna.affrc.go.jp/salad/) from plant-genome-based proteome data sets. We extracted evolutionarily conserved motifs by MEME softw...