Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is applied for on-line inspection of fruits. The aim of this work is to address the applicability of MRI for freeze injury detection in oranges directly on a distribution chain. Undamaged and damaged oranges are conveyed at 50 and 100 mm/s by a specially designed conveyor within a 4.7 T spectrometer obtaining fast low-angle shot images. An automatic segmentation...

An efficient protocol for the genetic transformation of cell suspension cultures of several citrus cultivars using Agrobacterium is described. Cell suspension cultures of Citrus sinensis ‘Hamlin’, ‘Valencia’ and ‘OLL8’ (an early maturing ‘Valencia’ like somaclone), Citrus unshiu ‘Okitsu wase’ and Citrus reticulata ‘Ponkan’ and ‘W. Murcott’ were transformed using A. tumefaciens EHA105. It was de...

Young and unripe oranges and grapefruits stored at 15 degrees or 20 degrees evidenced shortly after harvest a marked increase in respiratory rate, and then a well-defined maximum which was followed by a decrease.Ethylene production by oranges (measured by the manometric method) was observed, with curves parallel to the respiratory curves.The respiratory upsurge was accompanied by color changes ...

Yeast is one of the most important ingredients in bread making and, it may be isolated from local fruits such as sweet oranges a commercial yeast substitute. This research aimed to isolate orange (Citrus sinensis L) that used improver. The method was endophytic isolation on rind and flesh citrus fruits. It identified macroscopically, microscopically analyzed for carbohydrate fermentation, growt...

Most cultivated Citrus species originated from interspecific hybridisation between four ancestral taxa (C. reticulata, C. maxima, C. medica, and C. micrantha) with limited further interspecific recombination due to vegetative propagation. This evolution resulted in admixture genomes with frequent interspecific heterozygosity. Moreover, a major part of the phenotypic diversity of edible citrus r...

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