New Citrous Fruits

New Fruits for Arid Climates

INTRODUCTION In many countries around the world “developers” take the best agricultural lands for housing, and urbanization spreads rapidly. As a result, the agricultural industries are pushed into less productive lands in which the climate is not the most suitable for crops. A very good example is found in Israel. The best agricultural area is along the Mediterranean coast where the citrus ind...

Fruits of virus discovery: new pathogens and new experimental models.

The advent of high-throughput sequencing has led to a tremendous increase in the rate of discovery of viral sequences. In some instances, novel pathogens have been identified. What has been less well appreciated is that novel virus discoveries in distinct hosts have led to the establishment of unique experimental systems to define host-virus interactions. These new systems have opened new front...

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New approaches for Detection of Unique Qualities of Small Fruits

The omics disciplines applied in the context of nutrition and health have the potential to deliver biomarkers for health and comfort, reveal early indicators of disposition to disease, and discover bioactive, beneficial food components. These technologies are aimed at unraveling the overall expression of genes, proteins, and metabolites in a functionally relevant context, and provide insights i...

A new spirostanol glycoside from fruits of Solanum indicum L.

A new characteristic steroidal glycoside of the 23S,26R-hydroxylated spirostanol-type named indioside F was isolated from the fruit of Solanum indicum, along with indioside A and protodioscin. On the basis of spectroscopic analysis, the structure of indioside F was found to be 3-O-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1-->2)-[alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1-->4)]-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (beta-chacotriosyl) (22R,23...