Future food security in Sub-Saharan Africa requires enhancement of its crop production. Transgenic crops with a poverty focus can enhance harvests and are available for staples such as cooking bananas and plantains. One constraint is optimisation of national biosafety processes to support rapid and safe uptake of such beneficial crops. Africa needs streamlined regulation supporting deployment o...

The probiotic juice is one of the newest innovation opportunities in various kinds of healthy drinkꞌs business. The aim of this study was to investigate effect of banana pureeꞌs on survival of Lactobacillus casei and physicochemical and sensory properties of cocktail juice containing apples and bananas juice during storage. The amounts of banana puree were added in 3 levels (7% and 15%) to appl...

Solving many phenotyping problems involves not only automatic detection of objects in an image, but also counting the number parts per object. We propose a solution form single deep network, tested for three agricultural datasets pertaining to bananas-per-bunch, spikelets-per-wheat-spike, and berries-per-grape-cluster. The suggested network incorporates object detection, resizing, part as modul...

Researchers have used genomic sequence comparisons to predict an ocean bacterium’s trophic strategies, which may provide a technique to analyze the diversity of ocean bacteria, many of which are difficult to culture in the lab. Federico Lauro et al. compared the genomes of two common ocean bacteria: the copiotrophic Photobacterium angustum, which lives in warm, nutrient-rich waters and is fast ...

The introduction of a genetically modified (GM) banana (Musa spp.) in Uganda is not without controversy. It is likely to generate a wide portfolio of concerns as the technology of genetic engineering is still in its early stages of development in Uganda. The purpose of this study is to show how consumers feel about GM banana biosafety risks and the potential challenges for marketing the product...

Abstract Bananas and cantaloupe are two fruits that can be found in Indonesia very easy to get at affordable prices even grown alone. These a good combination if processed new ways, one of which is the form smoothies. This study aims determine consumer assessment organoleptic quality beverages smoothies Ambon bananas cantaloupe. The method used this was perform an test on panelists using Hedoni...