Beyond their post-harvest disinfestation of produce, crop sanitizers show promise as broad-spectrum pre-harvest pesticides that could simultaneously target plant pathogens and insect pests. Fruit rots and spotted-wing drosophila damage blackberries globally and are difficult to manage, especially...

Raspberries are highly perishable and have a short storage life. To extend its storage life, we evaluated the impact of preharvest melatonin (MEL) application (0, 50, 100, 200 µmol L^-1), three days before harvest, on the activities of oxidative and antioxidative enzymes and quality attributes in...

Thirteen germplasm resources in the genus Rubus were used as materials for internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence cloning by PCR methods. Sequence alignment analysis revealed that the full length of ITS sequences ranged from 462 to 464 bp. The sequence lengths of 5.8S, ITS1 and ITS2 were 164...

Industrial raspberry plantations in Russia occupy just over 10% of all plantings and do not fully meet the needs of the population and the berry processing industry. One of the ways to increase the production efficiency of this crop is the use of high-yielding cultivars for planting new...

Background: Queensland fruit fly (Qfly) males exhibit accelerated sexual maturation when their diet is supplemented with raspberry ketone (RK) for 48 h following emergence, which is beneficial for sterile insect technique operation. The present study tests whether RK supplementation makes Qfly more ...

Honey is a variegate matrix depending significantly on the floral origin, and it could become an important agri-food product to valorise specific territories. Being so diverse, different analytical techniques are necessary for its description. Herein we characterized the honey produced in one of...

In order to investigate the effect of 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment on the storage and preservation effect of raspberries, raspberries were treated with different mass concentrations (1.07, 2.14, 3.21 mg/m³) of 1-MCP for 20 hours and then stored in an ice temperature storage at (0±0.5) °C, ...

The raspberry fruits were fumigated with different mass concentrations (0, 6.42, 12.84 and 19.26 mg/m³) of ozone for 1 h and stored at (0±0.5) °C for 16 d, the effects of different mass concentrations of ozone treatments on the storage quality of raspberries were investigated. The results showed...

The traditional Chinese herb Rubuschingii Hu (R. chingii) is widely used in clinical practice due to its beneficial effects. Flavonoids are the important class of pharmacological substances in R. chingii, however, the molecular mechanism underlying the differences in active flavonoid contents in R. ...

Blackberries and raspberries, commonly known as Rubus berries, are commercially grown worldwide across different climates. Rubus berries contain wide array of phytochemicals, vitamins, dietary fibers, minerals, and unsaturated fatty acids. Nevertheless, these berries have short storage life which...