In this article we present the results of an unsupervised segmentation algorithm based on a multiresolution method. The algorithm uses color and edge information in an iterative minimization process of an energy function. The process has been applied to fruit images to distinguish the different areas of the fruit surface in fruit quality assessment applications. Due to the unsupervised nature o...

N the course of some research on peppers, Capsicum annum (SMITH and I HELSER 1951 ) , conducted at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California, several striking, heritable fruit characters were noted. Upon further analysis, a chromosome linkage was found to exist between two immature-fruit color genes and a gene determining pepper fruit shape. In addition the fruit shape difference bet...

Although acerola (Malpighia emarginata D.C.) has been suggested to be a climacteric fruit, little is known about its sensitivity exogenous ethylene. The objective of the study was evaluate quality changes fruit at two harvest maturity stages in response external ethylene application. ‘Flor Branca’ and ‘Junko’ acerolas were harvested 1 (green with density>1 g cm-3) 2(green density <1 treated 0 o...

American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is a deciduous shrub native to the southeast United States and is grown primarily for its metallic-purple fruit that develop in the fall. There are also pinkand white-fruiting and variegated forms but these traits are rare in nature and there is no information available regarding their inheritance. Also, there is confusion regarding self-compatibility...

Abstrak. Belimbing wuluh merupakan tanaman yang sangat banyak manfaatnya bagi kesehatan. Minuman sari buah adalah minuman dihasilkan dari pemerasan atau penghancuran segar telah masak. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui penilaian konsumen terhadap mutu organoleptik belimbing wuluh. Metode digunakan yaitu melakukan uji kepada panelis menggunakan Uji LSD (Least Significance Difference) organo...

Fruit and vegetables contain carotenoid pigments, which accumulate in human skin, contributing to its yellowness. This effect has a beneficial impact on appearance. The aim was to evaluate associations between diet (fruit, vegetable and dietary carotenoid intakes) and skin color in young women. Ninety-one Caucasian women (Median and Interquartile Range (IQR) age 22.1 (18.1-29.1) years, BMI 22.9...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The color of the edible portion of fruits and vegetables reflects the presence of pigmented bioactive compounds, (eg, carotenoids, anthocyanidins, and flavonoids). Which fruit and vegetable color groups contribute most to the beneficial association of fruit and vegetables with stroke incidence is unknown. Therefore, we examined associations between consumption of fruit an...

Carotenoids in goji (Lycium barbarum L.) have excellent health benefits, but the underlying mechanism of carotenoid synthesis and color formation fruit ripening is still unclear. The present study uses transcriptomics metabolomics to investigate biosynthesis differences N1 (red fruit) N1Y (yellow at three stages ripening. Twenty-seven carotenoids were identified fruits during M1, M2, M3 periods...

Fruit color-break is the visual manifestation of the developmentally regulated transition of chloroplasts to chromoplasts during fruit ripening and often involves biosynthesis of copious amounts of carotenoids concomitant with massive breakdown of chlorophyll. Regulation of chlorophyll breakdown at different physiological and developmental stages of the plant life cycle, particularly at fruit c...

In this paper we discuss the influence of semantically unexpected information on the prosodic realization of contrast. For this purpose, we examine the interplay between unexpectedness and various discourse factors that have been claimed to enhance the accentuation of contrastive information: contrast direction, syntactic status, and discourse distance. We conducted a production experiment in D...