This paper estimates the net effect of seasonality on child morality in Matlab. Results suggest that childhood mortality was well above average monthly level in the hot, dry month of April and in November, the first harvest month of the aman crop. It was found to be remarkably low in the postharvest months of February and March, and also in August. During the hungry months of September and Octo...

Climate/environment Rootstock/scion Planting design Pruning practices Pest management Irrigation Plant growth regulators Plant nutrition The goal for postharvest physiologists, whether they are working in basic or applied research, is to maximize the postharvest quality of horticultural commodities. Quality relates to several factors that can be commodity specific and mean different things to d...

PART I: POSTHARVEST BIOACTIVE, ANTIOXIDANT AND BINDING PROPERTIES MARTIN POLOVKA, YONG SEO PARK, KYUNG-SIK HAM, YANG-KYUN PARK, SUCHADA VEARASILP, PAWEL PASKO, FERNANDO TOLEDO, PATRICIA ARANCIBIA-AVILA and SHELA GORINSTEIN Department of Chemistry and Food Analysis, National Agricultural and Food Centre VUP, Food Research Institute, Bratislava, SK-824 75, Slovak Republic Department of Horticultu...

Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) trees are commonly used as a specialty horticultural species for Christmas trees and associated greenery in eastern Canada and United States. Postharvest needle abscission has always been a problem, but is becoming an even bigger challenge in recent years presumably due to increased autumn temperatures and earlier harvesting practices. An increased understanding of p...

Considering their economic importance, there has been relatively little research published on postharvest handling of cut lilies. Complicating this is the diversity of cultivar groups--asiatics, orientals, LA hybrids, OT hybrids, longiflorum and others. And, the diversity within each group is large and constantly growing as new cultivars are released. Cultivation practices and production locati...

Postharvest quality in stone fruits is ultimately defined in terms of consumer satisfaction, and includes appearance, texture and flavor, and nutritional value and safety. These result from all decisions and practices beginning with site and cultivar selection, and extending through cultural practices and all stages of postharvest handling. The development of high quality fruit is influenced by...

Oxidative stress in fruits and vegetables can be detected either directly (as accumulations in reactive oxygen species, increases in lipid peroxidation products, enhanced membrane leakage, or accumulation of brown pigments) or indirectly (as changes in antioxidant components or antioxidant enzyme systems). How all of these measures of oxidative stress relate to each other and how they are assoc...

Food losses can occur during production, postharvest, and processing stages in the supply chain. With the onset of worldwide food shortages, interest in reducing postharvest losses in cassava has been increasing. In this research, the main goal was to evaluate biochemical changes and identify the metabolites involved in the deterioration of cassava roots. We found that high levels of ascorbic a...

Fruits and vegetables are extremely susceptible to decay and easily lose commercial value after harvest. Different strategies have been developed to control postharvest decay and prevent quality deterioration during postharvest storage, including cold storage, controlled atmosphere (CA), and application of biotic and abiotic stimulus. In this review, mechanisms related to protein level response...

A strain of Acremonium luzulae (Fuckel) W. Gams was selected in screening new microorganisms for biological control of fruit postharvest diseases, especially gray and blue mold diseases on apples and strawberries. This strain manifests a very strong activity against a large number of phytopathogenic fungi. In this work, the product responsible for this antifungal activity was isolated from modi...