The aim of this work was to determine the sensory profile and stability of a new ready-to-drink passion fruit juice beverage sweetened with different sweetener systems: sucrose, aspartame, sucralose and an aspartame/acesulfame-K blend (4:1), during six months of storage. Samples of each beverage were stored at room temperature and under refrigeration, and were evaluated at 0, 60, 120 and 180 da...

Oenococcus oeni is a lactic acid bacteria species encountered particularly in wine, where it achieves the malolactic fermentation. Molecular typing methods have previously revealed that the species is made of several genetic groups of strains, some being specific to certain types of wines, ciders or regions. Here, we describe 36 recently released O. oeni genomes and the phylogenomic analysis of...

Broccoli is a vegetable grown worldwide due to its good nutritional properties. The harvest of this product done selectively by hand depending on their size and state maturation for both fresh market agri-food industry. final aim our work the development machine that able automatically only those broccoli heads have ripeness suitable industry, besides discarding overripe or with diseases. One c...

The Red Delicious has for many years represented the ideal apple and has been a symbol of consistent crispness and delicious flavor. However, changes in the way Red Delicious varieties are bred, distributed, and sold threaten to displace the Red Delicious apple from its central role in the industry. One important component in this shift is the trend in the last decade of breeding Red Delicious ...

Apples (Malus×domestica) of ‘Elstar’ and ‘Pinova’ of three different ripeness stages (unripe, ripe and overripe) were stored in separate chambers with 2°C and controlled atmosphere (2% CO2, 1.5% O2) between August 2008 and March 2009. During storage, 30 pieces of each cultivar were randomly selected for one measurement. Monochrome camera (JAI A50IR CCIR, JAI, Denmark) was used to capture images...

'Niigata S3' is a new strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) cultivar that is early flowering and possesses high soluble solid content and good coloration. It was selected from a cross between Kei812 (seed parent) and 'Asuka-Ruby' (pollen parent). The first harvest date of 'Niigata S3' was December 27, 34 days earlier than 'Echigohime' and 9 days earlier than 'Asuka-Ruby' (means of 2007 and 200...

The present investigations were undertaken to ascertain the extent of lipid peroxidation, oxidative stress and antioxidative system during ripening of two varieties of ber fruits (Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.) differing in their shelf lives, viz. Umran (8–9 days) and Kaithali (4–5 days). Based on visual observations, fruits were categorized as immature green (IG), mature green (MG), turning colour ...

Due to its well-defined genome, the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster has become a very important model organism in olfactory research. Despite all the research invested, few natural odour ligands have been identified. By using a combined gas chromatographic-single receptor neurone recording technique (GC-SC), we set out to identify active odour molecules in head space-collected volatiles from p...

Oxidative stress and advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are known as key factors for the development of diabetic complications such as retinopathy, cataract as well as atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's diseases. In this context, natural products have been previously identified as promising sources for antioxidant and anti-glycation compounds. The current ...

Our sensorimotor interactions with objects are guided by their current spatial and perceptual features, as well as by learned object knowledge. A fresh red tomato is grasped differently than a soft overripe tomato, even when those objects possess the same spatial metrics of size and shape. Objects' spatial and perceptual features need to be integrated during grasping, but those features are ana...