Simulations are used to generate plausible realisations of soil and climatic variables for input into an enterprise land suitability assessment (LSA). Subsequently we present a case study demonstrating a LSA (for hazelnuts) which takes into account the quantified uncertainties of the biophysical model input variables. This study is carried out in the Meander Valley Irrigation District, Tasmania...

Hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) is a popular tree nut worldwide, mainly distributed along the coasts of the Black Sea region of Turkey, southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France), and in some areas of the US (Oregon and Washington). Turkey is the world’s largest producer of hazelnuts, contributing ~74% to the total global production. In this study, compositional characteristics of eigh...

Despite being the world leader in production of hazelnuts, Turkey’s nut yield per hectare is quite behind other producer countries. The main reasons for low are completion economic life hazelnut orchards and lack pruning following technique. Hazelnuts grown with ‘ocak’ system Turkey. ocak a bush-like growing technique that does not contain trunk but consists shoots instead. It necessary to main...

BACKGROUND Cocoa, mixed with other food ingredients, intake can have beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease (CVD) biomarkers. We compared the effects of 4 cocoa cream products on some of these biomarkers. METHODS AND FINDINGS In this multi-centered, randomized, controlled, double-blind, parallel trial, volunteers (n = 113; age range: 43-65 years) who were pre-hypertensive, stage-1 hyper...

Results Of the 2115 anaphylactic reactions 494 cases (23%) were caused by food. These were 232 reactions in children and adolescents (range: 2 months – 17 years, median: 4 years; 65% male) and 262 reactions in adults (range: 18 – 82 years, median: 39 years; 31% male).The most common triggers among children were peanuts (n = 50), cow’s milk (n = 27), hazelnuts (n = 19) and hen ́s egg (n = 14). A...

Background Food allergies constitutes an important global health issue for the allergic consumers, the food industry and de medical health care. Since no treatment for food allergy is yet available, the allergic patient should completely avoid the threatening allergens from his diet. This is not easy to achieve in practice because the allergic consumer can already have an allergic reaction afte...

Aflatoxins, produced by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, can contaminate different foodstuffs, such as nuts. Cold atmospheric pressure plasma has the potential to be used for mycotoxin detoxification. In this study, the operating parameters of cold atmospheric pressure plasma were optimized to reduce the presence of aflatoxins on dehulled hazelnuts. First, the effect of different gases wa...

It is proven that nuts contain essential macro- and micronutrients, e.g. fatty acids, vitamins and dietary fibre (DF). Fermentation of DF by the gut microflora results in the formation of SCFA which are recognised for their chemopreventive potential, especially by influencing cell growth. However, little is known about cellular response to complex fermentation samples of nuts. Therefore, we pre...

A variation of the Filbert matrix from [1] is introduced, which has one additional Fibonacci factor in the numerator. We also introduce its Lucas counterpart by taking Lucas numbers instead of Fibonacci numbers in a similar manner. Explicit formulæ are derived for the LU-decompositions, their inverses, the inverse matrix, as well as the Cholesky decompositions. The approach is to use q-analysis...

BACKGROUND Sensitization to hazelnut (HN) is frequent and requires clarification to determine whether this sensitization is clinically relevant. The aim of this study was to investigate basophil activation profiles in HN-sensitized and allergic subjects. METHODS Basophil activation was determined by flow cytometric analyses of CD63 and CD203c expression using several HN allergen concentration...