one of the nondestructive methods for assessing the internal quality of some fruits is the processing and analyzing the sound signals generated by an impact on the fruit. in this regard determining the location and the suitable impact levels for a certain fruit is required. in this study, the selected crimson sweet variety of watermelon was used for the acoustic tests by imposing the impact for...

The aim of the present was to analyze effect different intercrops with and without mulch on growth, yield quality kinnow mandarin orchard. data plant such as height, stem girth, canopy spread, volume were collected in month February 2020 before transplanting intercrops. under treatments have significant growth plant, percent increase height (3.22%) + watermelon, girth (4.20%) tomato, spread EW ...

Both synthetic and natural antioxidants are using in the food industries. The evaluation of the former showed its potential carcinogenic effects. So, different studies focused on natural materials as the rich source of antioxidant compounds. The aim of the present study was to evaluate some chemical properties of watermelon peel (WMP). So the minerals content, physicochemical parameters, antiox...

Recent studies have shown the potential of food waste materials as low cost adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals and toxic elements from wastewater. However, the adsorption experiments have been performed in heterogeneous conditions, consequently it is difficult to compare the efficiency of the individual adsorbents. In this study, the adsorption capacities of 12 food waste materials were...

The citron, Citrus medica Linn., originally introduced into southern Europe from the Orient, is now grown in limited quantities in Puerto Rico, California, and Florida. When ripe the fruit resembles a giant lemon. It is normally picked while it is somewhat immature and the epicarp is still green. The essential oils in the fruit are oil of citron and oil of cedra, which are present in oil sacs i...

Grafting watermelon onto bottle gourd rootstock is commonly used method to generate resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum (FON), but knowledge of the effect of the root exudates of grafted watermelon on this soil-borne pathogen in rhizosphere remains limited. To investigate the root exudate profiles of the own-root bottle gourd, grafted-root watermelon and own-root watermelon, recircul...

Watermelon mosaic virus was first reported in 1965 from the Rio Grande Valley, TX. We report here the first complete genome sequence of a watermelon mosaic virus isolate from watermelon collected from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of endogenous small non-coding RNAs involved in the post-transcriptional gene regulation and play a critical role in plant growth, development and stresses response. However less is known about miRNAs involvement in grafting behaviors, especially with the watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.) crop, which is one of the most important agricultural crops worldwide. Graft...