introduction: citrus fruits, which belong to the family of rutaceae are one of the main fruit tree crops grown throughout the world. although sweet orange (citrus sinensis) is the major fruit in this group accounting for about 70% of citrus output.citrus fruits are well – appreciated fortheir refreshing juice and health benefits.the health benefits of citrus fruits are linked to the high amount...

Fruit wastes of apple (Malus pumila), banana (Musa paradisiaca), papaya (Carica papaya), pomegranate (Punica granatum) and sweet orange (Citrus sinesis) @ 20g/plant and the fungal biocontrol agent Paecilomyces lilacinus @ 2g (mycelium+spores)/plant, alone and in combination were evaluated for the management of reniform nematode, Rotylenchulus reniformis infecting chickpea under glasshouse condi...

Beta carotene and lycopene, the two principal colored carotenoids present in tomato fruit, were measured in mature fruit of parental, F,, F2, and backcross populations derived from an initial cross of an orange-fruited accession of the wild tomato species Lycopersicon cheesmann Riley with the cultivated tomato L esculentum Mill. Segregation patterns for fruit pigmentation and percentage beta ca...

Background: Contamination of fruit juices with heavy metals presents a risk for human health. Concentrations of lead, and arsenic in fruit juices of market in Mashhad, Iran, were measured using atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). Methods: Fifty varieties of commercial fruit juices (grape, apple, orange, pomegranate, and multi-fruit) from 5 popular brands (A, B, C, D and E) were purchased fro...

Seaweeds are rich sources of bioactive natural products, which have been considered as potential biotic agents. Ulva flexuosa Wulfen is a species of seaweed which is endemic to the Persian Gulf. In this study, the effect of different concentrations of U. flexuosa extract on  the  antioxidant activity of Washington Navel orange (Citrus sinensis L. cv. Washington Navel)...

In a previous paper (1), the authors have shown that the fumigation of citrus trees with hydrocyanic acid (HCN) for pest control, at a time of the year when the fruit buds are in a certain stage of development, produced ridges and sectors in the outer portion of the peel (flavedo) of the fruit. In the navel orange, Valencia orange and grapefruit varieties, fumigation of trees in February produc...

In this paper is proposed, implemented and evaluated a novel radial basis probabilistic neural network (RBPNN) based classification algorithm for classification fruit surface defects in color and texture of a very important fruit as orange. The proposed algorithm takes orange images as inputs then the texture and gray features of defect area are extracted by computing a gray level cooccurrence ...

to investigate flowering, fruitlet and fruit set in thomson navel orange and satsuma mandarin cv. miyagawa and sugiyama in climatic conditions of eastern mazandaran, an experiment was performed by combined analysis in randomized complete block design in three different orchards and in three consecutive years with five replications. number of flowers, fruitlets and fruits were recorded and later...

Organic cation transporter 2 (OCT2) plays an important role in the renal clearance of endogenous and exogenous organic cations, including drugs and their metabolites. Citrus fruit juice interactions with the P-gp efflux transporter are well-established, but there is to date no study on the effects of citrus fruit juice on OCT2 function and expression. This paper evaluates the modulating activit...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the hemodynamic and electrocardiographic effects of a single dose of commercially available bitter-orange dried-fruit extract, which is increasingly being used in dietary supplements. DESIGN Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study. SETTING University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus. SUBJECTS Eighteen healthy volunteers aged 18 years or older...