The olive tree (Olea europaea), native to the coastal areas of eastern mediterranean basin and parts of Asia, nowadays is cultivated all around the world. The products of olive trees, including olive leaves, fruit and oil, possess high nutritional and medicinal values. The characteristic bioactivities of olive products include antioxidant, anti-cancer, anti-hypertension and anti-atherosclerosis...

Fruit flies are an ideal animal for biological research. Fruit flies can grow quickly in the lab, and we can study many fruit flies at the same time. The fruit fly has an outer layer, just like the human skin, to protect itself from injury or damage. If humans and fruit flies respond to injury in similar ways, then we can use fruit flies to discover new steps to improve human health. Using smal...

A recent comparative analysis of the sequenced genomes of 12 Drosophila species (Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, 2007; Stark et al., 2007) reveals a comprehensive picture of the evolution of small animal genomes and greatly improves computational predictions of functional elements in the D. melanogaster reference sequence.

In Mauritius, the peach fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata Saunders (Diptera: Tephritidae), and the melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett), are the major pest of fruits and vegetables, respectively. Fruit growers make use of broad-spectrum insecticides to protect their crops from fruit fly attack. This method of fruit fly control is hazardous to the environment and is a threat to beneficial in...

The aim of this study was to evaluate antibacterial activity of Pistachia khinjuk fruit oil and extra virgin olive oil. The Pistacia khinjuk fruit oil was extracted using n-hexane by cold maceration and Soxhlet method. Antibacterial activity was evaluated using disk diffusion and micro broth dilution methods on food pathogenic bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Listeria monoc...

Consumption of olives (Olea europaea L.) is associated with a low incidence of inflammation-related diseases. Olive fruit is rich in bioactive pentacyclic triterpenoids, mainly maslinic acid. This study, a randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled trial, examined the effects of an orally administered maslinic acid supplement, olive fruit extract, on 20 middle-aged and elderly volunteers ...

A rapid Fourier transformed infrared (FT-IR) attenuated total reflectance (ATR) spectroscopic is applied to predict the quantity of oil in fresh olive in tree. The analytical method is evaluated by use of validation samples with nearly quantitative oil. 80 samples of olives in oil content, which varies between 8 and 21%, picked up in the Moroccan region, were subjected to infrared analysis. Ana...

Medical images in the process of collection and transmission are susceptible to noise interference and become blurred. The parameters of traditional fuzzy enhancement algorithm are controlled by manual adjustment, often with poor efficiency and effect, which cannot be optimal. Because a fruit fly optimization algorithm has small number of parameters with global optimization capability, in this ...

Bactrocera invadens, the Asian fruit fly, was first reported in Kenya in 2003, and it spread fast to most tropical countries in Africa. To our knowledge, there is no detailed data on the fruit damage and status of fruit flies in Arba Minch and elsewhere in Ethiopia. Hence, information on the species composition and pest status of the fruit fly species is urgent to plan management strategies in ...