‘Zhongli No. 3’: A Mid-season Plum Cultivar from ZFRI-CAAS

Discovery of non-climacteric and suppressed climacteric bud sport mutations originating from a climacteric Japanese plum cultivar (Prunus salicina Lindl.)

Japanese plums are classified as climacteric; however, some economically important cultivars selected in California produce very little ethylene and require long ripening both "on" and "off" the tree to reach eating-ripe firmness. To unravel the ripening behavior of different Japanese plum cultivars, ripening was examined in the absence (air) or in the presence of ethylene or propylene (an ethy...

Agronomical Parameters, Sugar Profile and Antioxidant Compounds of “Catherine” Peach Cultivar Influenced by Different Plum Rootstocks

The influence of seven plum rootstocks (Adesoto, Monpol, Montizo, Puebla de Soto 67 AD, PM 105 AD, St. Julien GF 655/2 and Constantí 1) on individual and total sugars, as well as on antioxidant content in fruit flesh of "Catherine" peaches, was evaluated for three years. Agronomical and basic fruit quality parameters were also determined. At twelve years after budding, significant differences w...

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Vitamin Extraction from Kakadu Plum

Kakadu plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana) is a native Australian fruit which is known to have very high concentrations of phytochemicals, including vitamin C concentrations of up to 100 times that contained in oranges. However, due to a combination of factors including the size, texture and flavour of the fruit as well as product and supply variability, it has not found widespread use in the food ...

Vol. 8, No. 3 , 2019