The fruit of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is an important horticultural product in the Middle East and North Africa. Among more than 400 reported date palm cultivars in Iran, around 20 cultivars are more important due to having better eating quality and trading values. In this study, the fruit of nine commercially important date cultivars including ‘Barhee’, ‘Breim’, ‘Deiri’, ‘Fersi’, ‘Ga...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect preharvest application 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) on postharvest dissipation stress watercore incidence and severity rating over 30 d at 20 °C. ‘Jonagold’ trees were untreated or sprayed with 1-MCP one week before harvest. Harvest indices quality factors °C, assessed days 2, 5, 9,15, 20, 30. Fruit treated treatment had lower internal ethy...

During experiments characterizing and identifying proteins from controlled atmosphere-stored apple and peach fruit, we optimized methods for the extraction and two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) of fruit proteins, using commercially available immobilized pH gradient strips for the first dimension. The method is relatively rapid with minimal handling of small amounts of sample, and has been ...

Objective: To determine the main indices of evolution postharvest maturity theAtaulfo mango from Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico.Design/methodology/approach: The analyzed variables were color skin L*, a* and b*, starch, total soluble solids (°Brix), pH, instrumental firmness, color/skin firmness correlation.Results: It was found that, as fruit progresses, stage 1 to 5, values L, TSS pH also increase...

pomegranate (punica granatum) is an important fruit crop cultivated for fruit and processing in the iran. delaying fruit harvest of pomegranate may increase fruit losses due to fruit cracking; however, early harvest may influence physical and biochemical indices of fruit. an experiment was carried out in 2011 at ‘baghmalek’ (north west of ahwaz, khuzestan province, iran) to determine the effect...

We evaluated the microbial contamination of 17 types of vegetable and 10 types of fruit after 30-s washing with tap water with and without subsequent disinfection by 10-min immersion in 0.01% (100 ppm) sodium hypochlorite. The mean microbial contamination level of 9 types of leafy vegetable was 2.8 x 10(5) colony-forming units (CFU)/g after washing with water and 3.4 x 10(4) CFU/g after washing...

Fruit firmness and crispness are important traits of cucumber because they directly affect its commercial value. We performed quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis these fruit texture with the double-digest restriction-site-associated DNA sequencing (ddRAD-Seq) technique detected 31 QTLs for firmness: 11 placenta firmness, 12 skin 8 flesh firmness; 25 crispness-related scores: 10 index, appar...

Objective: This study was performed to determine the effects of two girdling practices on yield and some pomological properties persimmon trees in 2019.
 Material Methods: The gridling were applied Hachia variety, common Çanakkale, as single girdling, double control. Girdling treatments after full blossom trees. Fruit variety determined. weight, fruit width, size, skin colour (L, a, b), pH...