abstract- mechanical damage degrades fruit quality in the chain from production to the consumption. damage is due to static, impact and vibration loads during processes such as harvesting, transportation, sorting and bulk storage. in the present study finite element (fe) models were used to simulate the process of static bruising for apple fruits by contact of the fruit with a hard surface. thr...

abstract- the purpose of this study was to elucidate the effects of chemical thinning on seasonal variations of leaf and fruit mineral compositions of ‘soltani’ apple trees. treatments, including unthinned control, naphthalene acetic acid (naa) at 5 and 10 mg l-1, naphthaeneacetamide (nad) at 25 and 50 mg l-1, benzyladenine (ba) at 50 and 100 mg l-1 and carbaryl at 500 and 1000 mg l-1 were appl...

abstract- bruising degrades the quality of fresh apple fruits. reducing bruise damage is of utmost importance in designing and developing processing equipments. the main objective of the present study was to introduce an analytical method to predict the allowable static load applicable to apple fruits. to predict the strain energy absorbed by the fruit, a point load was applied on the solid sph...

abstract- the evaluation of leaf area and leaf nutritional value is important for crop growth modeling and estimations of its performance. the purpose of this study was to use image processing techniques to develop an economical method to ease the assessment of nutrient status and leaf area (la) of plants and to compare the outcomes of this method with linear models. leaf area and leaf chloroph...

hadi ghaemi1, ali nobakht2*, sarayen razzaghzadeh1 1-west azarbijan jahad and agriculture faculty, iran 2- maragheh branch, islamic azad university, west azarbaijan, iran      *corresponding author email: [email protected]     received: 1 august 2013  accepted: 21 november 2013       abstract   this experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of apple pulp and multi-...

This paper proposes an APPLE scheme that aims at providing absolute and proportional throughput guarantees, and maximizing system throughput simultaneously for wireless LANs with homogeneous and heterogenous traffic. We formulate our objectives as an optimization problem, present its exact and approximate solutions, and prove the existence and uniqueness of the approximate solution. Simulations...

abstract nanoparticles (nps) are increasingly recognized as their usage in biological applications including nanomedicine and food safety. purpose of this study was study on comparison of antibacterial effect of zno nanoparticles in apple juice at 25 and 4 ° c. the present study investigated the antibacterial activity of zno was tested against listeria monocytogenes, escherichia coli, staphyloc...

The purpose of the present work was to develop an innovative food product with nutritional properties as well as appealing organoleptic qualities. The product, a jam, was prepared with the beans’ cooking water combined with fresh apple or carrot, without the addition of any conservatives. Three different jams were produced: bean and carrot, bean and apple and bean, apple and cinnamon. The devel...

The effect of antifungal compound from Bacillus subtilis strain LB5 was tested against conidial germination of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and Pestalotiopsis eugeniae, causal agent of anthracnose and fruit rot of wax apple, respectively. Observation under scanning electron microscope and light compound microscope revealed that conidial germination was completely inhibited when treated with c...