scholarly journals A Review on Edible Film and Coating Applications for Fresh and Dried Fruits and Vegetables

Author(s):  
Ece GİRAY TUFAN ◽  
Alev AKPİNAR BORAZAN ◽  
Ömer Mete KOÇKAR
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliano Cerasa ◽  
Gabriella Lo Verde

AbstractOzognathus cornutus (LeConte, 1859) (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Ernobiinae), species native to North America, is a saproxylophagous species and is known to feed on decaying tissues within conspicuous galls and on vegetal decaying organic material such as dried fruits or small wood shavings and insect excrements in galleries made by other woodboring species. A few years after the first record in 2011, its naturalization in Italy is here reported. The insect was found as successor in galls of Psectrosema tamaricis (Diptera Cecidomyiidae), Plagiotrochus gallaeramulorum, Andricus multiplicatus and Synophrus politus (Hymenoptera Cynipidae). The galls seem to have played an important ecological role in speeding up the naturalization process. The lowest proportion of galls used by O. cornutus was recorded for P. tamaricis (23%), the only host belonging to Cecidomyiidae, while the percentages recorded for the other host species, all Cynipidae forming galls on oaks, were higher: 43.6%, 61.1% and 76.9% in A multiplicatus, S. politus and P. gallaeramulorum, respectively. Although O. cornutus is able to exploit other substrates like dried fruits and vegetables, for which it could represent a potential pest, it prefers to live as a successor in woody and conspicuous galls, which thus can represent a sort of natural barrier limiting the possible damages to other substrates.


HortScience ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 639e-639
Author(s):  
José Luis León ◽  
Enrique Troyo-Diéguez

The high cost of inputs and water deficit in arid lands demand the use of more drought tolerant species into the agricultue. The flora of the deserts offer a variety of fruits and vegetables that may diversify horticulture. `Cimarrón' wild plum tree or “ciruelo cimarrón” (Cyrtocarpa edulis Brand.:Anacardiaceae) is one of the species with potential importance in arid lands. C. edulis is an endemic tree of the meridional portion of the Baja California peninsula, occurring along arroyos and on gentle slopes in sandy soils. The flesh of the fruits is edible, with a slight acid tang, and is used locally. Actual exploitation is based on the fruit harvest in natural dry forest and xerophilous shrubs, where average density is near 100 trees/Ha. There is a growing interest in marketing the dried fruits, especially for the snack industry, hence, the need to develop a breeding program in order to establish it as a reliable fruit crop.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 185-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Ntuli ◽  
Peter Chatanga ◽  
Raphael Kwiri ◽  
Henry Tendekayi Gadaga ◽  
Jephris Gere ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Daniel I. Onwude ◽  
Kamran Iranshahi ◽  
Donato Rubinetti ◽  
Seraina Schudel ◽  
Jörg Schemminger ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-226
Author(s):  
Zuhal OKCU ◽  
Yasemin YAVUZ ◽  
Sevgi KERSE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Kistner-Thomas

While the Midwest is famous for being the world’s leader in corn and soybean production, this region is also home to a variety of high value specialty crops. Specialty crops include fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, and nursery crops including floriculture.


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