In Hass avocado trees, the girdling and scoring of about 50% of the fruit bearing branches per tree, at the end of November 1994, resulted in an initial accumulation of carbohydrate in the leaves and branches of the girdled limbs. The girdling of only 50% of the branches and also the width of the girdle are crucial to the process since healing of the girdle wound, and continued nutrient supply ...

BACKGROUND Cornus mas L, an olive-shaped red-colored single-seeded fruit, is used in traditional medicine in different parts of Europe and Asia. OBJECTIVES In the present study, 40 male Wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups, and the effects of 21 days of intraperitoneally (IP) administration of 50, 200 and 400 mg/kg body weight of C. mas hydro-methanolic extract on the rats hemat...

world apricot (prunus armeniaca l.)  production is increasing steadily due to breeding of new high yielding cultivars in different countries. more recently, breeding programs have been modified according to consumers’ demands and also improvement in resistance to diseases (sharka, monilinia etc.), frost damages, and determination of self-(in) compatibility. in this study, fourteen apricot breed...

Climbing over chasms larger than step size is vital to fruit flies, since foraging and mating are achieved while walking. Flies avoid futile climbing attempts by processing parallax-motion vision to estimate gap width. To identify neuronal substrates of climbing control, we screened a large collection of fly lines with temporarily inactivated neuronal populations in a novel high-throughput assa...

In this study, the effects on quality characteristics such as mass, length, width and color (L*, a* b*) in blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum L. cv. 'Bluecrop') fruit of biofilm (ParkaTM) sprayed pre-harvest different regimes were investigated. The highest mass was measured T1, T3, T4 T8 treatments at harvest, whereas all harvest +7 similar. At +7, length obtained T1 treatments, respectively. Frui...

The field experiment was conducted with twenty brinjal varieties/lines during October 2007 to May 2008 to identify shoot and leaf characteristics of brinjal plants for their susceptibility/resistance against brinjal shoot and fruit borer infestation. Borer infestation was influenced by different characters of plant shoot and leaf. Various parameters like plant height, stem diameter, number of b...

Pepino (Solanum muricatum Aiton), also known as melon-pear, is a vegetatively propagated vegetable crop grown for its juicy and aromatic fruit. Great variation in fruit weight, shape, and color can be found among cultivars of pepino (Anderson et al., 1996; Heiser, 1985). Despite being an important crop in Pre-Columbian times in the Andean region, it has not achieved the same relevance as other ...

Gilaburu is an important fruit species in terms of healthy effects, having potential for use as alternative medicine and suitable industrial product processing. In this context, physico-chemical characteristics three different gilaburu (Viburnum opulus L.) genotypes grown under the ecological conditions Kayseri, Turkey were determined. addition, correlations among investigated calculated their ...

The cajazeira (Spondias mombin L.) is a fruit tree belonging to the Anacardiaceae family. Yellow mombins are very common in caatinga ecoregion of northeastern Brazil. This study assessed biometry fruits. fruits were collected 2019 within an area ​​ native vegetation campus Federal Rural University Semi-arid Region (UFERSA), Mossoró-RN. They then taken Plant Science Laboratory measure following ...

Bogor Regency is one of the regions in Indonesia that produces quite large noni fruits. Noni fruit a plant has benefits as medicine and often used traditional medicine. This study aimed to determine diversity plants Ciampea, Regency, based on characteristic morphology. The methods are survey methods, characterization, interviews with farmers. Purposive Random Sampling method create sample. morp...