Hydroponic Equipment

An important goal of backyard orchard culture is to maintain relatively small trees to facilitate pruning, thinning, pest management, and harvesting. By heading the newly planted tree at knee height, about 18 to 24 inches , you force the tree to develop low branches. However, if access under the tree is important, head the tree higher,…

The 51 categories listed contained significant numbers of differentially expressed genes with a false discovery rate <0.27. For each functional category a colour between blue and red and the number of genes differentially regulated were assigned.Parthenocarpy is a desirable trait in many commercially grown fruit crops if undesirable changes to quality, flavour, or nutrition can be avoided. This…

The standard fumigated beds had generally low nitrate nitrogen. At all sampling periods, the ammonium nitrate was lower than the RABETS target value of 14 ppm . The RABETS target of 30 ppm available phosphorus was maintained in all of the media treatments at both sites .Anaerobic soil disinfestation , a non-chemical alternative to methyl bromide,…

Heat can be recovered indirectly from a fryer’s fat-laden exhaust gases via a heat exchange system and used for pre-heating air and water for use in other facility processes. Conditioning of the exhaust gas is required, however, to remove fats and to reduce fouling of the heat exchange system. McCain Foods, a global manufacturer of…

Where possible, pipe diameters can be increased to reduce pumping energy requirements, but the energy savings due to increased pipe diameters must be balanced with increased costs for piping system components. Increasing pipe diameters will likely only be cost effective during greater pump system retrofit projects. Xenergy estimate typical industrial energy savings in the 5% to…

The two most common methods of blanching involve passing products through an atmosphere of saturated steam or a bath of hot water. Common types of steam blanchers include tunnel-type units, in which products are carried on a meshed conveyor belt through a tunnel containing steam, screw-conveyor units, in which products are transported through a steam…

Sucrose synthase can play important roles in sink strength and it was suggested that CitSUS1 may have a role in supplying UDP-glucose and fructose for cell wall synthesis during the cell division stage while CitSUSA and SUS1 may supply substrates for sucrose synthesis during maturation . Two isozymes of sucrose synthase, each active during different…

We included fruit at the T and OR stages in the validation experiment to capture the gene expression dynamics across fruit ripening and senescence. In Cnr MG fruit, SlACS4 was significantly lower expressed than WT, like the other mutants, but SlACS2 showed no significant difference. Interestingly, Cnr MG fruit had higher gene expression of four…

It is possible that retention of gene copies within metabolic networks increases flux providing selective advantage, or maintains gene balance, according to the gene dosage balance hypothesis. Network analysis pointed out the leading role of plant cell wall metabolism in determining quality attributes. In particular, xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolases emerged as central hubs in the network, being…

The L. monocytogenes population on the wet-inoculated pluots and sundried tomatoes immediately after inoculation were 9.35 ± 1.07 and 9.59 ± 0.25 log CFU/g respectively . On Day 0, higher inoculation levels were seen from sundried tomatoes . Approximately 5.35 log CFU/g of L. monocytogenes were inoculated onto dried pluots. After inoculation and during storage,…