pistachio is one of the most important export items in iran, comprising more than 23% of iran non-oil exports. yazd is considered as the second biggest province of iran from the viewpoint of pistachio production, standing after kerman province. since frostbite phenomenon, especially, strong spring frostbite, has incurred many damages into pistachio gardens of this area, it is necessary to study...

Among agricultural products in Iran, pistachio is one of the major export products that can produce foreign currency. The present study evaluated factors affecting pistachio export earnings instability and its effect on agricultural export during the studied period. For this purpose, export earnings instability index was calculated using "average absolute difference between export earnings and ...

Pistachio hull contains anacardic acids. It is a salicylic acid with side chain either saturated or unsaturated. This work focused on the efficient extraction of acids using solvent. Six aliquots were weighed and extracted hexane, ethyl acetate, mixture H2O/MeOH/HCl. Hexane was most solvent due to its ability dissolve Only one standard used quantify all them since does not affect wavelength gre...

background: the pistachio is a nut produced by about 20 species of shrub. present-day studies show the health benefits of pistachio in preventing or treating diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (cvds), cancer, multiple sclerosis (ms), and erectile dysfunction. materials and methods: medline / pubmed, and google scholar databases were searched using the keywords of pistacia vera, ...

successful export of a commodity is closely dependent upon observing the related international standards. aflatoxin standard is an important index of pistachio import/export market. a lot of pistachio consignments are annually rejected because of being infected with aflatoxin. this results in export market's instability and fluctuations. the role of aflatoxin contammination in pistachio ma...

We present a consumer-focused perspective on creating communications regarding potentially contaminated foods. It is illustrated with decisions that might have faced US consumers during the 2009 recalls of peanut and pistachio products. The example shows how knowledge about test results and regulatory processes might be made more useful to consumers.

Cyamophiliopsis is a small genus restricted to the Palaearctic Region and associated with Spiraea spp. (Rosaceae). In the present work, following five species are recognized in China: C. pseudofasciata sp. nov., C. sarmatica, C. spinosa sp. nov., C. xinjiangana sp. nov. and C. zaisani. Cyamophiliopsis is diagnosed, redescribed in detail, and its phylogenetic relationships are discussed. All the...