0260-8774/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2011.07.021 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: USDA/ARS/EMFSL Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA. Tel.: + 301 504 9466. E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Chao) Lycopene is a major carotenoid in tomatoes and detecting changes in its content can be used to monitor the ripening of tomatoes. Raman chemical...

This project deals with the ripeness of oil palm fruit. The current procedure in the palm oil mills is grading the oil palm fruit manually using human graders. This method is subjective and inconsistence because each graders has its own techniques and may vary from each other’s. Hence, it affects the quality and quantity of the oil that can be extracted. In this project, a new model of automate...

To optimize plant architecture (e.g., photosynthetic active leaf area, leaf-stem ratio), plant physiologists and plant breeders rely on destructively and tediously harvested biomass samples. A fast and non-destructive method for obtaining information about different plant organs could be vehicle-based spectral proximal sensing. In this 3-year study, the mobile phenotyping platform PhenoTrac 4 w...

Purpose. To determine the yield and agronomic stability of new corn hybrids bred at Plant Production Institute named after V.Ya. Yuriev NAAS under climatic changes.
 Materials methods. Twenty-eight experimental derived from lines different genetic origins were studied. The field experiments carried out in compliance with conventional techniques.
 Results discussion. Of tested, eight m...

Banana is a common fruit which found throughout Southeast Asia and are beneficial both as delicacy dessert good for health. Although quite easy to obtain, many people today find it difficult identify the correct ripeness stage of banana, especially when purchasing from traditional vendors, where varying degree available. This research sought possibility classify banana by its peel colour with H...