Chilling temperatures (below 10' but above the freezing point of the tissue) injure fruits of coldsensitive crops native to tropical and subtropical areas (1,4, 5). Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis Osb.) fruits, even though mature internally, may not lose their chlorophyll on the trees when grown in tropical climates. However, oranges grown on the northern fringes of the sutbtropical regions of Fl...

Carotenoids are responsible for the different flesh colors in watermelon fruit, such as white, salmon yellow, orange, pale yellow, canary yellow, crimson red, and scarlet red. In red-fleshed watermelons lycopene constitutes the major pigment and -carotene the secondary. The predominant carotenoid in yellow-fleshed watermelon is neoxanthin. Lycopene content in watermelon is related to genotype ...

The consumption of netted muskmelons (Cucunt.is izzelo L. Reticulatus group) has raised health concerns due to pathogenic bacteria attaching to sites on the netted rind inaccessible to sanitation. The purpose of this study was to compare I) the enzymic and nonenzymic antioxidant capacity between representative cultivars of netted muskmelon and both greenand orange-fleshed honey dew muskmelons d...

based on the valuable antioxidant activity of citrus fruits, in present study the effect of ‎rootstock and the type of tissue on some fruit quality parameters including phenol, ‎flavonoid, antioxidant and the content of hesperidin and naringin of orange and mandarin ‎was studied. the experiment was conducted as a factorial design based on complete ‎randomized blocks with four replications. resu...

there are instances in which it is desirable to determine relationships among fruit physical attributes. for example, fruits are often graded on the basis of size and projected area, but it may be more suitable and/or economical to develop a machine which grades by mass. therefore, a relationship between mass and dimensions or projected areas and/ or volume of fruits is needed. various grad...

Visible light imaging of citrus fruit from Mie Prefecture of Japan was performed to determine whether an algorithm could be developed to predict the sugar content. This nondestructive classification showed that the accurate segmentation of different images can be realized by a correlation analysis based on the threshold value of the coefficient of determination. There is an obvious correlation ...