26 articles in this issue
Federico Ferioli, Elisa Giambanelli, L. Filippo D'Antuono
Hawthorn (Crataegus spp., family: Rosaceae) extracts have been used as pharmaceutical preparations owing to positive effects on cardiovascular system. The AlCl3-based official method employed for the determination of pharmacologically active compounds was... see more
Qamar uz Zaman, Zubair Aslam, Muhammad Rashid, Ambreen Aslam, Rana Nadeem Abbas, Asif Iqbal, Muhammad Shahbaz Naeem, Umair Riaz, Safdar Bashir, Zulfiqar Ahmad Saqib, Muhammad Yaseen, Nusrat Ehsan
Zinc (Zn) deficiency is the most important micronutrient disorders affecting plants and human health. Present study evaluated the potential of various Zn application methods in improving the performance of selected rice genotypes and Zn bioavailability in... see more
Shuo Zhou, Yunxiao Feng, Zhe Zhao, Yudou Cheng, Junfeng Guan
Superficial scald often occurs after a long term of cold storage in apples and pears. In this study, the superficial scald index, the contents of major phenolic compounds, polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity and its related genes expression in peel was inve... see more
Vahid Tavallali, Hossein Gholami, Omid Espargham
A greenhouse study was conducted to investigate the impact of different rates of application of Zn-EDTA, salicylic acid (SA) and zinc-salicylic acid nano-complex (n[Zn(SA)2]) on the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of essential oil (EO) of sweet b... see more
Frederike Else Helene Sonntag, Diana Bunzel, Sabine Kulling, Ina Porath, Franziska Pach, Elke Pawelzik, Inga Smit, Marcel Naumann
Tomatoes are an important source of health beneficial phytochemicals, which act as antioxidants such as ascorbic acid, phenolic compounds, carotenoids, and tocopherols. The content of antioxidants is influenced, among others, by abiotic stress factors, li... see more
Ireen Drebenstedt, Iris Schmid, Christian Poll, Sven Marhan, Robert Kahle, Ellen Kandeler, Petra Högy
Crop productivity and plant physiology are affected by rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns due to climate change. We studied the impacts of an increase in soil temperature of 2.5 °C, a decrease in summer precipitation amount of 25%, a r... see more
Daniel Z. K. Wambrauw, Yuko Sato, Naoki Sugino, Saki Matsumoto, Ling Li, Hiroaki Kitazawa
Reducing water loss from cabbages during storage is essential to extend the shelf life of this widely consumed horticultural crop. In this study, we evaluated the effect of moisture-proof corrugated boxes (MPBs) on water loss from cabbages during storage.... see more
Makuete Andre Patrick Tiawoun, Milingoni Peter Tshisikhawe, Eastonce Tendayi Gwata
Brackenridgea zanguebarica Oliv. is an important multipurpose tree valued for its medicinal uses in Vhembe District. The unsustainable harvesting coupled with poor seed germination in the wild is threatening its regeneration; which poses a challenge in ef... see more
Mildred Mayorga, Gerhard Fischer, Luz Marina Melgarejo, Alfonso Parra-Coronado
The curuba (Passiflora tripartita var. mollissima) is an important Andean fruit in bioprospecting industries because of its pleasant taste and aroma, antioxidant potential and sedative action. The objective of this study was to evaluate the development of... see more
Jin Cai, Beibei Du, Le Kang, Junjun Guo
Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus is a widely distributed pathogen that causes ring rot of potato. Antimicrobial activity assays demonstrated that petroleum ether extracts from Athyrium sinense was a fraction with strong activity against C. mic... see more
Zahra Karimian, Azita Farashi, Leila Samiei, Mohammad Alizadeh
Drought and water scarcity are serious limiting factors for plant growth and can thus present an obstacle to development of the urban green areas in the cities in particular under climate change. Using native plants is a high-priority option to increase v... see more
Caroline A.C. Meschede, Muna Ali Abdalla, Karl H. Mühling
Glucosinolates (GLS) are a serendipitous class of secondary metabolites found in pak choi, a Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis (L.) Hanelt). GLS are hydrolyzed by the enzyme myrosinase to obtain isothiocyanates (ITC), nitriles, and epithioni... see more
Haibin Wang, Xiaoting Chen, Yuhua Wang, Jianghua Ye, Xiao-li Jia, Qi Zhang, Haibin He
In order to explore the effect of soil on the synthesis of aroma components in tea leaves, tea seedlings replanted in tea rhizosphere soil of different ages were used as research materials. Tea seedlings were replanted in soils aged 0, 4, 9, and 30 years,... see more
Ismail, Muhammad Hamayun, Anwar Hussain, Sumera Afzal Khan, Amjad Iqbal, In-Jung Lee
High temperature is one of the leading threats to the plants that severely affects crop quality as well as quantity. Endophytic fungi might be a new tool to safeguard crops against the perilous effects of global warming. In this context, we isolated a the... see more
Pramod Mahajan, Manuela Zude-Sasse
Fresh fruit and vegetables are the major source of essential vitamins and minerals, which are needed for human health and well-being. They are, however, perishable living products that request continuous measures for quality keeping by growers, storage op... see more
Lien Le Phuong Nguyen, Tamás Zsom, Mai Sao Dam, Laszlo Baranyai, Géza Hitka
The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment on muskmelons (Cucumis melo L. var. reticulates Naudin) using different temperatures during the treatments. Three application temperatures (5, 10 and 20 °C) and four... see more
Laszlo Baranyai, Lien Le Phuong Nguyen, Mai Sao Dam, Tamás Zsom, Géza Hitka
The presented study simulates commercial practice and focuses on the effect of time gap between harvest and the beginning of cold storage. Apple fruit ?Golden Delicious’ was harvested in Hungary and randomly separated into 3 groups for precooling at 1, 4 ... see more
Akane Tsukahara, Shinichi Kameoka, Ryoei Ito, Atsushi Hashimoto, Takaharu Kameoka
We aimed to develop a method to evaluate lettuce freshness changes during storage using only the surface color. In the first experiment, the surface color of one lettuce were measured continuously for 6 days. At the same time, moisture contents, elemental... see more
Martin Penzel, Monika Möhler, Cornelia Weltzien, Werner B. Herppich, Manuela Zude-Sasse
In cherry production, the assimilate supply to the fruit is a crucial factor for growth and formation of quality parameters. The assimilate supply per fruit is limited by the relative growth capacity of trees, represented by the leaf area to fruit ratio (... see more
Nabil Ben Youssef, Reem Mohammed Shaher Al-Moaikal, Ghadah Hamad Saleh Al-Hawas, Farah Mustafa Alrammah
In this study, we investigated the role of seed priming in mitigating depressive effects of high salinity on membrane lipid composition and membrane functionality in seedlings of Hasawi rice cultivar (Oryza sativa L). Results indicated that seed pre-treat... see more
Amina Ayadi, Yassine Yahia, Khadija Ben Othman, Hédia Hannachi
Olive oil is rich in natural antioxidants that conserve its quality under storage conditions. However, there is a growing need to improve the quality of olive oil under storage conditions using phenol-enriched olive oil. In the present study, olive oil fr... see more
Sushma Pandey, Sathish Sundararajan, Sathishkumar Ramalingam, Manju Kanu Baniya, Bijaya Pant
Valeriana jatamansi is well known for its medicinal and ethnobotanical values. An efficient and rapid in vitro propagation system for V. jatamansi is presented. The shoot bud explants from V. jatamansi plants were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medi... see more
Siavash Mohammad, Leila Tabrizi, Majid Shokrpour , Javad Hadian , Hartwig Schulz , David Riewe
Thymus spp. is one of the most important medicinal plants widely used in food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. In this research, different ecotypes of three Thymus species including T. daenensis, T. kotschyanus and T. lancifolius native to Iran w... see more
Lyzbeth Hernandez Ramos, Rosario García-Mateos, Ana María Castillo González, Maria Carmen Ybarra Moncada, Raúl Nieto Angel
The pitahaya (Hylocereus spp.) is a cactus native to America. Despite the great diversity of species located in Mexico, there are few studies on the nutritional and nutraceutical value of its exotic fruits, ancestrally consumed in the Mayan culture. An ev... see more
Hartwig Schulz
Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is well known as the third most widely produced tropical fruit worldwide after mango and pineapple. The global papaya production has grown significantly over the last few years, mainly as a result of increased production in India... see more
This new and updated edition provides a broad, balanced review of the scientific knowledge of strawberries and their cultivation. The worldwide strawberry industry has grown substantially since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Furthermore, me... see more