Tomato fruit is renowned for its high concentration of phyto-nutrients such as lycopene and carotenoids, overall contribution to nutrition and human health. The effect of antisense suppression of ethylene receptor genes LeETR1 and LeETR2 over the quality of tomato fruit was investigated in this paper. During the different stages of ripening, the fruit of antisense transgenic tomatoes of ale1 an...

Apple is one of the most important fruits in temperate zones with a long post-harvest life during cold storage. A factorial experiment, in a randomized completely block design was used to investigate the preharvest application of Iron (0, 500 and 1000 mg Fe-EDDHA per tree) and nitrogen (0, 48 and 96 g ammonium nitrate per tree( on some postharvest qualitative characteristics in "Red spur" and "...

selection of superior chance seedling genotypes is an important task in pear breeding programs. this research was carried out in order to explore and evaluate some of european pear (pyrus communis l.) chance seedling genotypes that are primarily used as rootstock for the asian pear (pyrus serotina rehd.) in tarbiat modares university (tmu) asian pear collection orchard. after four years visual ...

Most Japanese plum-type cultivars are self-incompatible and therefore cross pollination is necessary to ensure fruit set. Moreover, pollen can directly affect fruit development process and quality.  This study was carried out to investigate the effect of 6 pollen sources (‘Goje Sabz’, ‘Simka’, ‘Shablon’, ‘Methley’, ‘Myrobalan’ and ‘Black Star’) on  fruit quantitative and qualitative characteris...

pomegranate (punica granatum) is an important fruit crop cultivated for fruit and processing in the iran. delaying fruit harvest of pomegranate may increase fruit losses due to fruit cracking; however, early harvest may influence physical and biochemical indices of fruit. an experiment was carried out in 2011 at ‘baghmalek’ (north west of ahwaz, khuzestan province, iran) to determine the effect...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of exogenous polyamines, isopropyl ester, 2, 4-d and naphthalene acetamide application on yield and quality of date palm of ‘kabkab’ cultivar. the inflorescences sprayed with 2, 4-d isopropylester (0, 10, and 20 mg l-1), naphthalene acetamide (0, 80, and 120 mg l-1), putrescence and spermidine (0, 0.1, and 1.0 mm), three or six weeks after pollin...

the purpose of this research was to assess the influence of several orchard systems involving trees trained to different leader numbers on growth, cropping, and fruit quality of two apple cultivars. the study was conducted during 1994-2007 at the fruit experimental station in samotwór, next to wrocław (south-western poland). one-year-old trees of ‘elstar’ and ‘jonagold’ cultivars on the m.9 roo...

It is challenging for buyers around the globe to identify good quality fruit. For several kinds of fruit, it may be difficult for buyers to determine the fruit quality by appearance. The ability to select only good quality fruit without cutting or cleaving is useful because buyers will not waste money ordering undesirable fruit. To decrease the chances of buyers purchasing sub-standard watermel...

Volume fraction of fibres (A), aspect ratio of fibres (B) and fibres orientation (C) are considered as control factors in the determination of hardness strength, hardness strength of plantain fiber reinforced polyester composites (PFR P). These properties were determined for plantain empty fruit bunch (PEFB) and plantain pseudo stem (PPS). Hardness tests were conducted on the replicated samples...