The anthocyanidin in fruit peels of mangosteen, pitaya and black plum were extracted, and the effects of temperature, pH, food additives (sodium nitrite and ascorbic acid) and metal ions on the stability of anthocyanidin were analyzed. The results showed that, under the optimal extraction...

Objectives: The spotted wing Drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii Matsumura (Diptera: Drosophilidae), is a pest that infests small stone fruits and cherries in the majority of fruit-growing regions of the world. The fruiting season of the usual hosts of this pest is relatively short. In order to...

'Yuetong' is a new pineapple cultivar selected by artificial hybrid breeding. The color of leaf is green. There are no spines around the leaf margin. The leaf-tip is soft. There are a few white wax powder stripes on the leaf abaxial surface. The fruit is cylindric. The color of fruit skin is...

In this study, regulation mechanism of magnetic field on pectinase was investigated and it was preliminarily applied in postharvest sapodilla. Results indicated pectinase activity decreased by 44% when treated by magnetic field (3 mT, 0.5 h) with kinetic parameters V_max/K_m decreasing from 0.799 to...

Objective: The growth, development and geographical distribution are severely limited by various abiotic stresses such as low temperature, drought and salt. The transcription factors play an important role in the response of plants to abiotic stresses by regulating the expression of abiotic stress...

Introduction. Breadfruit, Artocarpus spp., is a staple crop with the potential to alleviate hunger and increase food security in tropical regions. Guidelines and recommendations for cultivar selection and production practices are now required for establishment of breadfruit in new areas. Materials...

Using the citrus industry chain model as the basic framework, this paper proposes an explicit definition of Citrus Big Data. For each of the four main parts of the citrus industry chain, i.e., production resources, planting operations, processing, storage and transportation, and marketing, the...

Protein deficiency has been observed as a leading cause of malnutrition and child death in the tropics. The current study evaluated the protein quality of 49 important breadfruit cultivars (41 Artocarpus altilis and 8 hybrids of A. altilis × A. mariannensis). While significant differences were...

Elaioplasts of citrus peel are colorless plastids which accumulate significant amounts of terpenes. However, other functions of elaioplasts have not been fully characterized to date. Here, a LC-MS/MS shotgun technology was applied to identify the proteins from elaioplasts that were highly purified...

Cadmium (Cd) contamination of orchard soils is a global problem that has been increasing. To decrease the Cd accumulation in fruits, intercropping the orchard crops with hyperaccumulator plants has been used for soil remediation. A pot and a field experiment were conducted to study the effects of...