Bush Fruits: A Horticultural Monograph of Raspberries, Blackberries, Dewberries, Currants, Gooseberries and other Shrub-like Fruits

It Was Easy, when Apples and Blackberries Were only Fruits

Ambiguities in company names are omnipresent. This is not accidental, companies deliberately chose ambiguous brand names, as part of their marketing and branding strategy. This procedure leads to new challenges, when it comes to finding information about the company on the Web. This paper is concerned with the task of classifying Twitter messages, whether they are related to a given company: fo...

Sustainable horticultural crop production through intercropping: The case of fruits and vegetable crops: A review

Sustainable agriculture seeks to at least use nature as the model for designing agricultural systems. Since nature integrates her plants and animals into diverse landscape, a major tenet of sustainable agriculture is efficiency and lack of waste products in nature. When domestication of crops replaced hunting and gathering of food, landscape changed accordingly. By producing a limited selection...

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Biochemical and fungal caracterization of dried pears and other fruits

The drying of pears allows their conservation due principally to the inhibition of microbial growth, making the dried pear a safe food for consumers. The knowledge of microbial flora, as well as some biochemical factors, is very important for ensuring the consumers health. In this study samples of pears of the variety S. Bartolomeu were dried under different systems: traditional open air sun dr...

Capparis spinosa: a comparative study of raw and processed fruits

Background: Capparis spinosa is used in different countries for prevention and treatment of various diseases. Its fruits are usually used in processed form especially with vinegar. Objective: The aim of the present study was investigating the effect of processing on some phytochemical constituents and biological activities of C. spinosa. Methods: The fruits were processed with grape vinegar. To...