This study aimed to determine the effects of osmotic dehydration on kinetics hot air drying apricot halves under conditions that were similar industrial ones. The process was performed in a sucrose solution at 40 and 60 °C concentrations 50% 65%. As expected increased temperatures resulted water loss, solid gain shrinkage. well described by Peleg model. effective diffusivity 5.50–7.387 × 10−9 m...

in order to genetic analysis of rice seed vigour, a cross was carried out between tarom mahalli (tolerant to osmotic stress) and khazar (sensitive to osmotic stress) crosses. linkage map based on ssr markers was derived using 74 polymorphic markers and 192 f2 individuals. germination rate, radicale and plumule length were recorded from 20 plants per 192 f3 families. the loci related to germinat...

Melatonin (ML) is an indolamine that regulates a wide range of physiological processes as growth roots and shoots, antioxidant enzyme activity, seed germination, photosynthetic efficiency promoting stress tolerance in plants, mitigating the harmful effects abiotic stress. Effects pretreatment soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) seeds with 10, 30, 60 90 μM ML were evaluated seedlings under osmotic...

Abiotic stress limits seed germination, plant growth, flowering and fruit quality, causing economic decrease. Small Heat Shock Proteins (sHSPs) are chaperons with roles in stress tolerance. Herein, we report the functional characterization of a cytosolic class CI sHSP (OpsHSP18) from Opuntia streptacantha during seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana transgenic lines subjected to different st...

The present study aimed to evaluate the influence of selected compounds from the polyol group, as well as other saccharides, on the osmotic dehydration process of apples. The following alternative solutions were examined: erythritol, xylitol, maltitol, inulin and oligofructose. Efficiency of the osmotic dehydration process was evaluated based on the kinetics of the process, and through comparis...