ABSTRACT- The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of “Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi” (AM fungi) density and different growing media on the growth, photosynthesis parameters and yield of sweet pepper under greenhouse conditions. The experiment was conducted as a factorial plan based on control randomized design (CR...

The interests in the consumption of pepper fruits (Capsicum annum L.) is, to a large extent due to its content of bioactive compounds and their importance as dietary antioxidants. Peppers are used as a colourant, flavourant, and/or as a source of pungency. Peppers can be used fresh, dried, fermented, or as an oleoresin extract. It has both nutritional and nutraceutical importance. It contains a...

GANs for improving the realsim of projected 2D images Barth et al. (2018b,a) when used as initial 9 training set sweet pepper detection models, led to an improvement in overall performance 10 across different datasets Afonso (2019). This suggests that on synthetic data can make models 11 learn some latent characteristics, which then be refined by respective empirical data.The aim this research ...

Capsicum chinense is a small aromatic pepper native to the Amazon and widely used in Caribbean Basin. Most types of C. are highly pungent, but landraces Puerto Rico generally have little or no pungency. This “sweet chili pepper” (or ají dulce, as it known on Island) an integral part local cuisine. Ten sweet lines derived from non-pungent were evaluated Lajas, Juana Díaz Corozal, Rico, 2009. The...

The effect of pressure treatments of 100 and 200 MPa (10 and 20 min) and of thermal blanching at 70 C, 80 C and 98 C (1 and 2.5 min), on sweet green and red bell peppers was compared. Pressure treated peppers showed a lower reduction on soluble protein and ascorbic acid contents. Red peppers presented even an increased content of ascorbic acid (15–20%), compared to the untreated peppers. Peroxi...

We investigated the regeneration of two Bulgarian sweet pepper cultivars (‘Hebar’ and ‘Stryama’) on solid and liquid culture medium. Liquid cultures were incubated in temporary immersion RITA ® airlift bioreactors. During a period of 60 days, culture in the liquid medium was associated with significantly increased shoot tip growth, number of lateral shoots, percentage of rooted plants and micro...

This article analyzes food consumption in relation to levels of DDE (the principal metabolite of DDT) in the adipose tissue of 207 Mexican women residing in States with high and low exposure to DDT. Data on the women's dietary habits and childbearing history were obtained from a personal interview. Adipose tissue DDE levels were measured by gas-liquid chromatography and compared by analysis of ...

Breeding hybrids with nuclear malesterile lines is an important method for the cross-breeding of sweet peppers. To date, few reports have been published on malesterility gene pepper. Yet, there are approximately 20 pepper in world. Using self-developed testing material, dual-purpose line AB91, genome-wide resequencing technique was applied to find that mutation site causing abortion AB91 chromo...

The Pacific islands have a diverse range of food and cash crops with indigenous and introduced nematode problems. The staple food crops have serious nematode pests, such as Meloidogyne spp. on sweet potato, Hirschmanniella miticausa causing corm rot of taro, and Pratylenchus coffeae and Radopholus sp. producing tuber dry rot of yams. Bananas are infested with P. coffeae or R. similis, citrus wi...