sericulture has played a very important role in the socio-economic empowerment of rural and semi-urban population. the eco-friendly nature of the industry, in addition to its employment generation potential, low investments and frequent returns, has rendered the industry as one of the most suitable land based economic activity, particularly in the context of global movement against environmenta...

The evaluation of the canopy in orchard cultivation is a key aspect for main techniques, such as pruning, thinning, harvesting, production and improved fruit quality. possibility having periodic screening state development vegetation can be practical support to growers. Research on application precision agriculture has provided tools reading interpreting crops, resulting information potentially...

The quality of seedcane used by cane growers in South Africa has not reached the standards necessary to contain the spread of diseases and maintain varietal purity. Since the formation of Local Pest and Disease Control (LP & DC) Committees in 1982, a number of grower groups have established formal seedcane schemes to try to improve the quality ofseedcane. Six schemes are described. Each scheme ...

Varietal Thiols in Wine: Discovery, Analysis and Applications Aur elie Roland, R emi Schneider,* Alain Razungles, and Florine Cavelier* Interloire, 12 rue Etienne Pallu, BP 1921, 37019 Tours Cedex 01, France UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nologie, INRA, SupAgro, Universit e Montpellier I, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 01, France Institut Franc ) ais de la Vigne et du Vin, at UMR 1083 Sciences pour l’!nolo...

Oryza sativa or Asian cultivated rice is one of the major cereal grass species domesticated for human food use during the Neolithic. Domestication of this species from the wild grass Oryza rufipogon was accompanied by changes in several traits, including seed shattering, percent seed set, tillering, grain weight, and flowering time. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping has identified three ge...

The antioxidant activity and the phenolic and α-tocopherol content of 10 Northern Italian mono- and multi-varietal extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs), after early and late olive harvests, was analyzed. A hierarchical cluster analysis was used to evaluate sample similarity. Secoiridoids (SIDs), lignans and flavonoids were the most abundant phenolic compounds identified. The organic Casaliva (among ...

Analyses of key odorous polyfunctional volatile thiols in wines (3-mercaptohexanol (3-MH), 3-mercaptohexylacetate (3-MHA), and 4-mercapto-4-methyl-2-pentanone (4-MMP)) are challenging due to their high reactivity and ultra-trace concentrations, especially when using conventional gas-chromatography electron impact mass spectrometry (GC-EI-MS). We describe a method in which thiols are converted t...