Banana (Musa sp.) ranks fourth in term of worldwide fruit production, and has economical and nutritional key values. The Cavendish cultivars correspond to more than 90% of the production of dessert banana while cooking cultivars are widely consumed locally around the banana belt production area. Many plants, if not all, produce Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) as a means of communication with ...

background: it was found that, climatic conditions and fruit ripeness are important factor for the occurrence and intensity of superficial scald. 1-mcp is an inhibitor of ethylene action in plants and inhibits many ripening related processes along with the production of ethylene and volatiles. objective: apples are often held for several months at low temperature either in air (ra) or in contro...

The copolymerization of bio-renewable β-myrcene or β-farnesene with styrene was examined using an ansa-neodymocene catalyst, affording two series of copolymers with high styrene content and unprecedented syndioregularity of the polystyrene sequences. The incorporation of terpene in the copolymers ranged from 5.6 to 30.8 mol % (β-myrcene) and from 2.5 to 9.8 mol % (β-farnesene), respectively. NM...

Objectives: (1) Obtain a genomic clone of the apple α-FS gene including the promoter and ethylene response element(s); (2) Isolate and characterize the promoter region from the genomic clone of the apple peel HMG2 gene and determine whether expression of HMG2 is regulated by ethylene; (3) Evaluate the correlation of ethylene-induced transcription of genes encoding enzymes in the αfarnesene synt...

The chemical composition of the essential oils of flower at the pre-flowering, full-flowering and post-flowering stage of A. annua was analyzed by GC and GC/MS and sixty-two components were identified. The main compounds in the pre-flowering oil were β-myrcene (37.71%), 1, 8-cineole (16.11%) and camphor (14.97%). The full-flowering oil contained predominantly caryophyllene (19.4%), germacrene D...

the roots and rhizomes of tanacetum parthenium (l.) schulz. bip. (asteraceae), have been used in iranian traditional medicine under the name of aqhovan, as digestive and stomachic tonic. composition of the essential oil, which was obtained from the root of t. parthenium collected from karaj, was determined by gas chromatography, combined gc/ms and gc/ir. in total, 20 components (92% of essentia...

To better understand the cold-induced regulation of scald-like disorders in pears and specific roles played by ethylene ?-farnesene, three pear cultivars with different patterns production chilling requirement were used this study. Fruit treated 1-MCP (ethylene inhibitor) Lovastatin (?-farnesene stored at -0.5 °C 90 % RH during 6 months. Changes targeted metabolites, enzymes genes monitored per...

Producers in the Western Cape province of South Africa are looking towards a push-pull strategy to reduce oviposition damage plums by western flower thrips (WFT). White clover, Trifolium repens L., favoured host plant WFT, was investigated as possible trap crop provide “pull” element. The attractiveness collected volatiles white clover flowers and unopened (balloon stage) open plum (Prunus sali...