Previous work by the writers (6) has shown that the ripening rate of newly picked pears can be markedly stimulated by ethylene or gases of similar properties naturally evolved, but fruit treated after being held for prolonged periods of cold storage is not similarly affected. As a tentative explanation of these differences, it was suggested that the effects of ethylene are confined to a pre-rip...

Marino, P., Schicchi, R., Barone, E., Raimondo F. M. & Domina G.: First results on the phenotypic analysis of wild and cultivated species of Pyrus in Sicily. — Fl. Medit. 23: 237-243. 2013. — ISSN: 1120-4052 printed, 2240-4538 online. Phenotypic analysis of Pyrus in Sicily using a set of 19 characters on 71 accessions belonging to 7 species is here reported. Results show a high level of morphol...

The study of the complex web of interactions that link biological molecules in a cell is the subject of interactomics--currently one of the fastest moving fields in molecular biology. The recent completion of high-throughput studies to investigate systematically all the possible interactions in a variety of model organisms has provided unique opportunities to compare interaction networks and as...

Species diversity is one of the most important indices used for evaluating the sustainability of forest communities. This study aims to characterize the forest communities and to identify and compare the plant species diversity in the study area. For this purpose, 152 relevés were sampled by a randomized-systematic method, using the Braun-Blanquet scale. Classification of the vegetation was con...

− The constitutional diagnosis using human skins is classified to palpation in oriental medicines. From Sasang constitutional medicine which is one of oriental medicines, human could be divided by the properties of their skins such as texture, roughness, hardness and elasticity. Especially, the friction coefficient and roughness of skins have big discrimination ability in the classification of ...

Background: Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infections are very common in Iran and worldwide and the risk for resistance to anti-herpetic drugs has increased recently. Alternative antiherpetic agents seem necessary to control and reduce the emergence of -resistant strains. Oriental medicine suggests some herbal options for the treatment of herpes lesions. Aim: This study reviews some of the common h...

This study aims to examine the potential reasons for the current prevalence of the fusarium wilt in the oriental melon. Twenty-seven Fusarium isolates obtained from oriental melon greenhouses in 2010-2011 were identified morphologically and by analysis of elongation factor-1 alpha gene (EF-1α) and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA sequences as 6 Fusarium species (8 isolates of F. oxysporum...

The hyperspectral imaging technology is used to detect early-maturing pear’s effective acidity nondestructively, and effective prediction model is established. 145 pears’ hyperspectral images are obtained in the wavelength range of 400nm-1000nm. Total 145 pears are separated into the calibration set (77 samples) and prediction set (68 samples). Early-maturing pear’s effective acidity partial le...