Grapes and raisins provide phenolic antioxidants, which contribute to their potential health benefits. The objectives of this study were to compare the antioxidant capacity and phenolic content of green Thompson seedless grapes (the most common variety of grapes consumed in the United States), sun-dried raisins, and golden raisins (both produced from Thompson seedless grapes) and to observe the...

During recent years a large annual surplus of grapes has been produced in the United States, and the development of new grape products to take care of this increasing supply is at present an important phase of the grape industry. Because of the general interest in a fruit so abundantly grown, it seemed desirable to study the nutritive value of grapes and grape juices more extensively than had p...

Utilization of grapes for juice concentrate production is an important market for grape growers in the San Joaquin Valley. Approximately 536,000 tons of grapes were crushed during the 2001 season for juice concentrate production. The majority of fruit crushed for this purpose was from Thompson Seedless cultivar, In addition, red cultivars such as Royality and Rubired were also used to produce h...

Drought is the most common environmental stress in vineyard occurs in soils with low water content, even in irrigation condition. To evaluate foliar spraying of ascorbic acid under drought stress, a research during 2012 to 2013 years in the natural environment, and one year after the establishment of the cuttings in clay loam soil was conducted. Cultivars with two-level white seedless and khosh...

Drought is the most common environmental stress in vineyard occurs in soils with low water content, even in irrigation condition. To evaluate foliar spraying of ascorbic acid under drought stress, a research during 2012 to 2013 years in the natural environment, and one year after the establishment of the cuttings in clay loam soil was conducted. Cultivars with two-level white seedless and khosh...

Vacuolar processing enzymes (VPEs) have received considerable attention due to their caspase-1-like activity and ability to regulate programmed cell death (PCD), which plays an essential role in the development of stenospermocarpic seedless grapes ovules. To characterize VPEs and the relationship between stenospermocarpic grapes and the VPE gene family, we identified 3 Vitis vinifera VPE genes ...

the major objective of seedless grape breeding program is production of grapes with high quality. breeding of seedless grapes is difficult because the embryos are aborted after fertilization. embryo rescue technique is utilized to obtain plants from crosses between seedless cultivars. in the present study, the effect of paternal genotypes and different iaa concentrations in presence of ba appli...

In this study, the effects of microwave power, vacuum degree and load weight on moisture content seedless white grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) during drying were investigated. The result found that drying, effective diffusivity (Deff) ranged between 1.0232 × 10−9 4.6354 m2/s. Deff values increased with increase in power decrease weight, played a relatively minor role. kinetics ratio time establishe...

drought is the most common environmental stress in vineyard occurs in soils with low water content, even in irrigation condition. to evaluate foliar spraying of ascorbic acid under drought stress, a research during 2012 to 2013 years in the natural environment, and one year after the establishment of the cuttings in clay loam soil was conducted. cultivars with two-level white seedless and khosh...

Grape (Vitis vinifera) yield is largely dependent on the fecundity of the cultivar. The average number of inflorescences per shoot (i.e. shoot fruitfulness) is a trait related to fecundity of each grapevine. Berry number and weight per bunch are other features affecting grape yield. An ovule-specific auxin-synthesizing (DefH9-iaaM) transgene that increases the indole-3-acetic acid content of gr...