"Anna" is an early season apple cultivar exhibiting a fast softening and juiciness loss during storage, in comparison to two mid-late season cultivars "Galaxy" and "GD." The poor storage capacity of "Anna" was correlated with high lipid oxidation-related autoluminescence, high respiration and ethylene production rates, associated with high expression of MdACO1, 2, 4, 7, and MdACS1. All cultivar...

We present a pre/post intervention study, where HARVEST, a general-purpose patient record summarization tool, was introduced to ten data abstraction specialists. The specialists are responsible for reviewing hundreds of patient charts each month and reporting disease-specific quality metrics to a variety of online registries and databases. We qualitatively and quantitatively investigated whethe...

List of Tables iv List of Figures v Foreword vi Acknowledgments vii Summary viii 1. Research Questions and Motivation for Policy Analysis 1 2. Contents 3.1 Average total number of person-days worked by household members in the production of the main meher harvest, 1991 15 3.2 Time spent by household members on post-harvest activities, livestock activities, and non-farm activities (average total...

Abstract India is the fifth-largest apple producer in world with more than 2 MT per year. Mechanical damage such as bruises of apples ( Malus domestica Borkh.), which can result considerable wastage and decline quality, a major problem industry. On-site investigations orchard management strategies to reduce Northern were conducted by first author collaboration University Bonn. The industry incl...

In the context of climate change, where high temperatures are frequent in first phases ripening, protecting grapevine bunches from solar radiation is essential for preserving berry composition and wine colour. The effects bunch-zone late defoliations (DEFs) “semi-ballerina” shoot positioning (SB) on vine physiology grape quality organic cv. Sangiovese wines during storage were assessed two cont...

during past few years, dying of apple trees in apple orchards of in kohgiluyeh and boyerahmad province was observed. the symptoms of this abnormality were accompanied with wilting, general weakness, less growth of tree branches and leaves. sometimes sudden dying during flowering and fruit harvest. in early spring up to end of summer of 2008, the sampling from collar and crown effected tissues f...