Mechanical damage is a threat to both food security and sustainability. Bruising the most common type of mechanical damage, it causes huge economic loss due rejection fresh produce downgrading appearance quality by consumers. Therefore, this study aims examine effect bruising during postharvest handling using pendulum test technique. Pomegranate fruit were bruised once at two impact levels (1.1...

Quality characteristics of tomato fruit will be affected by a number preand post harvest factors. In this study, the effect of maturity stage on post harvest quality characteristics of tomato was investigated. Tomato fruits of the same farmers‟ variety were harvested at mature-green, medium ripe and full-ripe stages. After harvesting, tomato samples were sliced and homogenized in blender for pr...

Transcription start site (TSS) evolution remains largely undescribed in Drosophila, likely due to limited annotations in non-melanogaster species. In this study, we introduce a concise new method that selectively sequences from the 5'-end of mRNA and used it to identify TSS in four Drosophila species, including Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans, D. sechellia, and D. pseudoobscura. For verifi...

Transcription start site (TSS) evolution remains largely undescribed in Drosophila, likely due to limited annotations in non-melanogaster species. In this study, we introduce a concise new method that selectively sequences from the 50-end of mRNA and used it to identify TSS in four Drosophila species, including Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans, D. sechellia, and D. pseudoobscura. For verifi...

The relationship between berry chemical composition, region of origin and quality grade was investigated for Chardonnay grapes sourced from vineyards located in seven South Australian Geographical Indications (GI). Measurements of basic chemical parameters, amino acids, elements, and free and bound volatiles were conducted for grapes collected during 2015 and 2016. Multiple factor analysis (MFA...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective observational study. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the prevalence and clinical characteristics of tandem spinal stenosis (TSS) in patients with cervical myelopathy including ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine (C-OPLL). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Concurrent cervical and lumbar spinal canal stenosis is generally reported as TSS. Mos...

The relationship between berry chemical composition, region of origin and quality grade was investigated for Chardonnay grapes sourced from vineyards located in seven South Australian Geographical Indications (GI). Measurements of basic chemical parameters, amino acids, elements, and free and bound volatiles were conducted for grapes collected during 2015 and 2016. Multiple factor analysis (MFA...

Dwarf cherry tomatoes ‘Red Robin’ and ‘Tiny Tim Red’ were cultivated in two sections. The sections set as (1) section irradiated only by fluorescent lamps (main wavelengths 433, 543, 610 nm; 230 μmol·m−2·s−1 of photosynthetic photon flux density) non-treated with UV-A irradiation (hereafter, non-UVA), (2) treated (maximum peak emission: 352 15.1 W·m−2 ultraviolet radiation intensity; hereafter,...

Citrus is one of the most important fruit crops in world. junos Siebold ex Tanaka cv. Pujiang Xiangcheng a new rootstock with good grafting affinity and multiple abiotic stress tolerance. In this study, effects ‘Pujiang Xiangcheng’ two commonly used rootstocks for maxima (Burm.) Merrill Guanxi Miyou, considering their growth, photosynthetic performance, phytohormones quality, were evaluated. Th...

UNLABELLED Diagnosis of cardiac involvement is important for the management of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). This study was undertaken to determine the significance of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients with SSc and whether diastolic function measured by gated SPECT is an early sign of cardiac complications. METHODS Thirty-four patients with SSc and 16 control patients wer...