the objective of this study was to evaluate the storage life and quality of persimmon (diospyros kaki thunb.) fruit cv. ‘karaj’ stored at 0°c for 4 months after postharvest calcium chloride treatment. fruit weight loss, fruit firmness, total soluble solids, titratable acidity, total phenolic content, soluble tannin content, chilling injury, antioxidant activity, electrolyte leakage, and malondi...

effect of three different levels of fe-eddha foliar application and soil application of nitrogen on some quantitative and qualitative characteristics of apple (cv. fuji) grafted on maling-9 was evaluated. this experiment carried out at the experimental field of tehran university, in 2013. the factorial experiment was carried out as randomized completely block design (rcbd) with three replicatio...

this study was carried out to investigate impacts of myrobalan rootstock and blackthorn interstem on fruit growth, physico-chemical features and bioactive compounds of two apricot cultivars (‘harcot’ and ‘roksana’) in 2010 and 2011. fruits of both cultivars on myrobalan and/or blackthorn grew with a classic double sigmoid curve from full bloom time to harvest. during growth and development peri...

The aim of this work was to evaluate how 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment affects appearance plum fruit. Fruit ‘Angeleno’ and ‘Topend’ cultivars were treated with 625 ppb gaseous 1-MCP at 1 °C for 24 h after harvest. Samples without treatment, called control, those subjected the stored 8 weeks (Topend) 10 (Angeleno). subgroup initial samples withdrawn from cold storage also measured 7 d 2...

Transcript abundance of the gene encoding -galactosidase II, a -galactosidase/exo-galactanase (EC 3.2.1.23) present during tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) fruit ripening, was suppressed by expression of an antisense tomato -galactosidase 4 (TBG4) cDNA driven by the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. RNA gel-blot analysis was used to evaluate TBG4 mRNA levels in transgenic fruit. All of the...

Calcium preharvest application influences fruit quality. The impact of foliar sprays using several commercial fertilizers with Ca content on the quality and nutritional status kiwi cv. ‘Hayward’ was investigated for a 2-year period. Fruit flesh firmness increased under all compared to control. Total soluble solids acidity were not altered significantly by any studied products. Treatment differe...

Relationship between nondestructive firmness measurements and commercially important ripening fruit stages for peaches, nectarines and plums Constantino Valero a, Carlos H. Crisosto b,∗, David Slaughter c a Departamento de Ingenierı́a Rural, Universidad Politécnica Madrid, Av. Complutense, Madrid 28040, Spain b Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Dav...

Municipal solid waste compost (MSWC) and/or fertigation used in greenhouse pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivation with five different substrates with soil (S) and/or MSWC mixtures (0-5-10-20-40%) used with or without fertigation. Plants growth increased in 10-20% MSWC and fertigation enhanced mainly the plant height. Fruit number increased in S : MSWC 80 : 20 without fertilizer. Plant biomass ...