L-Arabinose is a useful sugar in the food industry. We demonstrate here simple methods for refining arabinan polysaccharides by alcohol extraction from prune, Prunus domestica L., as a source of L-arabinose. Alcohol-soluble polysaccharides were purified from a solution of prune extracted by 80% ethanol. After fractionating the polysaccharides by ion-exchange chromatography, arabinans were ident...

dry matter production in oak (Quercus robur L.) seedlings and clonal cherry (Prunus avium L. × pseudocerasus Lind.) plants were measured during 19 months of growth in climate-controlled greenhouses at ambient (350 vpm) or elevated (700 vpm) CO2. In both species, the elevated CO2 treatment increased the PPFD saturated-rate of photosynthesis and dry matter production. After two months at elevated...

BACKGROUND Traditional alcoholic beverages (TABs) have only received marginal attention from researchers and ethnobotanists so far, especially in Italy. This work is focused on plant-based TABs in the Alta Valle del Reno, a mountainous area on the border between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna regions. The aims of our study were to document local knowledge about TABs and to analyze and discuss the d...

Five species of eriophyoid mites were detected as new records for the mite fauna Turkey. The samples collected on herbaceous plants and fruit trees in Bahçesaray, Edremit, ?skele Akdamar island Van province, Turkey between 2014 2016. identified eriophyid are Aceria camdeboo (Meyer, 1981) Celtis sp. (Cannabaceae); A. trifolii (Nalepa, 1892) Vicia biennis L. (Fabaceae), Aculus parakarensis (Bagda...