BACKGROUND Fruit texture is a primary selection trait in southern highbush blueberry (SHB) breeding to increase fresh fruit postharvest quality and consumer acceptance. A novel crisp fruit texture has recently been identified among SHB germplasm. In this study, we developed a common set of descriptors that align sensory evaluation of blueberry fruit texture with instrumental measures that could...

We examined the inhibitory effect of the extract of kakrol extracted by 3 types of solvent (water, 50% and 100% ethanol) on histamine release in human basophilic KU812 cells. The water extract of kakrol flesh showed the strongest inhibitory effect on histamine release as compared with the other extracts. Therefore, we evaluated whether water extract of kakrol flesh had a suppressive effect on d...

pose changes, the distribution of skin colors in color planes is very employ color histogram based approaches to skin color segmentation. sis of skin colors directly in the RGB color space. Our idea is simple observation that skin colors of a person in the RGB color space are linear fashion, we apply PCA techniques to RGB values of skin colors s collected online. The axis along which the data i...

This research features a new method for skin color segmentation using a 2D plane in the RGB color space. The RGB color values of the input color image do not need to be converted into HSI or YIQ color coordinates that have popularly been used for color segmentation. We have observed an important fact that skin colors in the RGB color space are approximately distributed in a linear fashion. Base...

The propagation of light in stone fruit tissue was modeled using the Monte Carlo (MC) method. Peaches were used as the representative model of stone fruits. The effects of the fruit core and the skin on light transport features in the peaches were assessed. It is suggested that the skin, flesh and core should be separately considered with different parameters to accurately simulate light propag...

This paper reports on the quantification of light transport in apple models using Monte Carlo simulations. To this end, apple was modeled as a two-layer spherical model including skin and flesh bulk tissues. The optical properties of both tissue types used to generate Monte Carlo data were collected from the literature, and selected to cover a range of values related to three apple varieties. T...

introduction: all fruits that called citrus are from rutaceae family and aurantioideae subfamily. this subfamily have more than 33 different genus that only three of its genus (citrus, poncirus and fortunella) have economic aspects and in citrus producing country are important. it's reported that orange skin has a phenolic compounds which play a role in natural defense mechanism. also various c...

Antimutagenicity of the water extracts prepared from the storage roots of four varieties of sweetpotato with different flesh colors was investigated using Salmonella typhimurium TA 98. The extract from the whole roots of the purple-colored Ayamurasaki variety effectively decreased the reverse mutation induced not only by Trp-P-1, Trp-P-2, IQ, B[a]P, and 4-NQO but also by dimethyl sulfoxide extr...