White campion (Silene latifolia, Caryophyllaceae) is a classical model species for studies of sex determination and chromosome evolution in dioecious plants. Deletion mapping this revealed the presence two Y-linked determining genes—the stamen promoting factor (SPF) gene gynoecium suppressing (GSF), which inspired development classic ‘two genes’ dioecy evolution. We recently identified GSFY tha...

Kiwifruit [Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.)C. F. Liang & A. R. Ferguson] is nutritionally rich fruit with high ascorbic acid content (193mg/100g) but the extraction of its juice is difficult due to slimy pulp.To overcome this problem a combination of enzymes (pectinase 0.025g/kg + amylase 0.025g/kg + mash enzyme 0.05g/kg) were used to macerate pulp (2h at 50C) and thus, facilitating the extractio...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the method producing shelf-stable snacks based on kiwifruit with objective obtaining an appealing snack good taste, color, and nutritional value. Less valuable kiwifruits for size shape were utilized in order reduce production waste. To obtain snacks, two drying methods used: freeze-drying hot air drying. Physical chemical analyses conducted. Furthermore, a...

in the current research the artificial neural network models were used for predicting mass transfer kinetics of osmotically dehydrated kiwifruit. osmotic dehydration operations were performed in sucrose solution with concentrations of 30, 40, 50 and 60% at temperatures of 20, 40 and 60°c for 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes. multi-layer neural network with 3 inputs (operating conditions) was develope...

Soluble solid content (SSC) is a major quality index of kiwifruits. Visible near-infrared (Vis/NIR) hyperspectral imaging with the genetic algorithm (GA) was adopted in this study to realize non-destructive prediction kiwifruit SSC. A laboratory Vis/NIR system established collect 120 samples at range 400–1100 nm. The average reflectance spectral data region interest were obtained after differen...

Kiwifruit is a common and popular fruit around the world. However, white peach scale (Pseudaulacaspis pentagona [Targioni-Tozzetti]), insect with wide range of hosts, seriously affects yield quality kiwifruit. To investigate differences in resistance different kiwifruit cultivars to P. pentagona, cellular structure gene expression assays were used explain mechanism. Based on stability infestati...