Pectin rich fruit juices need enzymatic treatment for clarification. As fruits are rich in pectin, pectinolytic treatment can efficiently reduce viscosity resulting in clarified fruit juice. Enzymatic treatment of mango pulp results in 80% recovery of total juice present in the fruit. Use of pectin degrading polygalacturonases increases both fruit juice extraction and clarification. Polygalactu...

Research to date indicates that post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) is an effective strategy for the development of stable high-level resistance to Plum pox virus in plum. Field tests in Poland, Romania, and Spain show that after 5–6 years of natural aphid vectored inoculation, trees of the PTGS clone C5 remain virus-free. The effectiveness of transgene-based PTGS for imparting potyvirus...

Purpose: To evaluate the antiurolithiatic activity of Pinus eldarica fruit on induced calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis in rats. Materials and Methods: Calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis in rats was induced by administering ethylene glycol 1% for 30 days via drinking water. The prophylactic and therapeutic groups received P. eldarica fruit extract (500 and 1000 mg/kg/day) as well for 30 days and fro...

identifying and selecting superior genotypes in native germplasm is one method for breeding fruit trees. five different ecotypes of jujube (ziziphus jujuba mill.) were collected from different regions of isfahan province, iran, for evaluation of their morphological and pomological traits during 2011-13. results showed that quantitative traits were more significant within ecotypes. ‘‘najafabad’ ...

‘Lingwu Changzao’ (Ziziphus jujuba Mill. cv. Lingwuchangzao), a cultivar of Ziziphus in the Rhamnaceae family, is traditional jujube Ningxia, China. For Changzao’, morphological traits are prominent characterizing fruit yield, quality, and consumer acceptance. However, measurements for cultivation limited. Therefore, objective this study to measure growing patterns selected during development. ...

ALEKSIEVA, K., I. NACHEVA, K. DIMOV and Tsv. TSVETKOV, 2016. Natural and gamma induced free radicals in dried fruits. An EPR study. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 22: 1010–1013 The aim of the present study is to prove radiation processing in air dehydrated dates, prunes and fi gs, as well as to recommend which part of the fruit to sample. The detection method is Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spe...

Fleshy-fruit availability is rarely used as a predictor in stone marten ( Martes foina ) habitat models, despite its frugivorous carnivore diet. Data on stone marten occurrence, habitat structure and fl eshy-fruit species abundance was collected along 2 km long survey routes within 2 x 2 km sample plots (n = 30). Two different spatial scales were considered: 1) the entire survey route; and 2) 2...