pistachio green stink bug, acrosternum heegeri, is one of the most injuriously important and key pests of pistachio in iran. this pest causes major damages to fruits by feeding on them, and transmitting fungo desease nematospora coryli as studied on a selected population. biological characteristics and fertility life table parameters of the insect were collected from rafsanjan area. the bugs we...

in 2007 and 2008, the influence of pollen source on the shell and kernel traits of resulting seeds and on fruit set was examined to evaluate the potential for xenia or metaxenia in persian walnut. pistillate flowers of ‘jamal’, ‘chandler’, ‘hartley’ and ‘pedro’ were crossed with the pollen of ‘serr’, ‘z60’ and ‘damavand’. the pistillate flowers on each female parent were covered about one week ...

introduction: in respect of underground cultivation, production and consumption wheat is the major alimentary seed in iran. the contamination of wheat to fungi especially aspergillus flavous (the most important aflatoxin producer in nature) and aflatoxin is a risky factor to community health. the aim of this study was to identify aspergillus flavous and aflatoxins in the stored wheat of mazanda...

abstract in order to investigate correlation between the rate (amount) of micro and macro elements and protein percentage in pistachio kernels of six cultivar including: akbari, abbasali, kaleh gouchi, ahmadaghaie, ouhadi and khanjari with aspergillus flavus growth and aflatoxin b1 production, the amount of micro and macro elements were measured using atomic absorption, micro-kjeldhal digestion...

microwave assisted fluidized bed drying is a novel drying technique which reduces drying time and yields higher quality products. in this study the effect of this method on color changes of whole and cut hazelnut kernels was investigated. the parameters of color and resulting total color change, chroma, hue angle and browning index were also calculated during drying in three temperatures (40, 5...

The aim of this study was to evaluate biogeographic variability in the fruit, kernel, kernel-oil and press-cake contents 50 accessions beauty leaf tree (C. inophyllum L.) collected from 19 locations spanning 4000 km along eastern northern coasts Australia (Northern Territory Queensland). Mature fallen fruits C. were individual trees stored a shed for over year. cracked open extract kernels, ker...