García Martínez, Eva María; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Yuste Del Carmen, Alberto; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Martínez Navarrete, Nuria(John Wiley & Sons, 2018)
[EN] BACKGROUND: Recent epidemiological studies have suggested that phenolic compounds present in grapefruit play an important role in the bioactive properties of this fruit. However, the consumption of fresh grapefruit ...
Rodríguez Burruezo, Adrián; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Nuez Viñals, Fernando(International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), 2011)
After the discovery of America, Spain was the point of entrance to the Old World for several vegetables native to America, including chilli peppers (Capsicum spp.). Such diversity of introduced peppers evolved, after ...
San José, Raquel; Sánchez Mata, María de Cortes; Cámara, Maria Montaña; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Wiley, 2013-12)
We have investigated the diversity for composition in seven eggplant (Solanum melongena) cultivars of the Occidental type. The results show that, with the exception of moisture content and pH, there is a wide diversity for ...
Badim, Hélder; Vale, Mariana; Coelho, Marco; GRANELL RICHART, ANTONIO; Gerós, Hernani; Conde, Artur(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-07-29)
[EN] VviNAC17 is a grapevine transcription factor activated by ABA. Because ABA has been proposed as the main signal modulating the secondary metabolism in grape berry skins, here we postulated VviNAC17 as a positive ...
[EN] Hot water extract of sugar and red maple bark was added to maple syrup and dried by freeze (FD) and vacuum drum drying (VD) techniques. Addition of maple bark extracts to syrup helped to develop polyphenols-enriched ...
Santos-Zea, L; Antunes-Ricardo, M.; Gutierrez-Uribe, J.A.; Garcia-Perez, J.V.; Benedito Fort, José Javier(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] Power ultrasound is applied in food technology to intensify extraction processes, due to the phenomena ultrasonic energy induces in the medium, enhancing mass transfer. The purpose of this work was the acoustic ...
Al Hassan, Mohamad; Martínez Fuentes, Marina; Ramos Sánchez, Francisco José; Vicente Meana, Óscar; Boscaiu Neagu, Mónica Tereza(Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca + Academic Pres, 2015)
The effects of salt and water stress on growth and several stress markers were investigated in cherry tomato plants. Some
growth parameters (stem length and number of leaves) and chlorophyll contents were determined every ...
Hurtado Ricart, María; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Gramazio, Pietro; Andújar Pérez, Isabel; Herraiz García, Francisco Javier; Castro, A.; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2014-04)
We have used the Almagro pickling eggplant landrace as a model for the enhancement of a local vegetable landrace. The programme has included characterization, selection, and breeding activities. Considerable intra-landrace ...
Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Figueroa, Manuel; García Martínez, María Dolores; Rodríguez Burruezo, Adrián; Fita, Ana; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Universidad de Estudios Agrícolas y Medicina Veterinaria Cluj-Napoca, 2011)
The public opinion has a growing concern for food health issues and is interested in
the consumption of food of improved quality, which is defined by several aspects, like the internal
composition, appearance of the ...
Eggplant fruit are a rich source of phenolic acids that influence fruit culinary quality and antioxidant content. We evaluated the influence of production environments and stability of diverse genotypes across environments ...
[EN] Climate change in the Mediterranean areas is increasing problems on droughts, water availability and salinization of irrigation water. These are probably some of the most limiting factors on farming, especially in ...
Fayos Febrer, Joaquín; Belles Albert, José Mª; López-Gresa, María Pilar; Primo Millo, Jaime; Conejero Tomás, Vicente(Elsevier, 2006)
[EN] Tomato plants infected with the citrus exocortis viroid exhibited strongly elevated levels of a compound identified as 2,5-dihydroxy-benzoic acid (gentisic acid, GA) 5-O-beta-D-xylopyranoside. The compound accumulated ...
Vázquez Gutiérrez, José Luis; Hernández Carrión, María; Quiles Chuliá, Mª Desamparados; Hernando Hernando, Mª Isabel(CZECH ACADEMY AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, 2014)
[EN] The effects of refrigerated storage on the microstructure and physicochemical properties of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) treated onion were evaluated. Onion was submitted to 100 MPa at 50°C or 400 MPa at 25°C for ...
Kaushik, Prashant; Gramazio, Pietro; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Raigón Jiménez, Mª Dolores; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Plazas Ávila, María de la O(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] Increasing the content in bioactive phenolics in the eggplant (Satanum melongena) fruit is of interest, but may result in enhanced browning. We evaluated six varieties of S. melongena, 22 accessions of wild related ...
Payá C.; Minguillón, S.; Hernández, M.; Miguel, S.M.; Campos, L.; Rodrigo Bravo, Ismael; Belles Albert, José Mª; López-Gresa, María Pilar; Lisón, Purificación(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2022-11-29)
[EN] Background Salicylic acid (SA) is a major plant hormone that mediates the defence pathway against pathogens. SA accumulates in highly variable amounts depending on the plant-pathogen system, and several enzyme activities ...
Aleixandre-Tudó, José Luis; Buica, Astrid; Nieuwoudt, Helené; Aleixandre Benavent, José Luís; du Toit, Wessel(American Chemical Society, 2017)
[EN] Phenolic compounds are of crucial importance for red wine color and mouthfeel attributes. A large number of enzymatic and chemical reactions involving phenolic compounds take place during winemaking and aging. Despite ...
Escriche Roberto, Mª Isabel; Juan Borras, María del Sol(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] The analysis of propolis is controversial, hampering the comparison of its biological properties and estimation of its commercial value. This work evaluates the effectiveness of combining maceration and ultrasonication ...
[EN] Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) tissues contain considerable amounts of polyphenolic compounds and polysaccharides which can copurify with RNA. This can render the RNA unsuitable for DNA synthesis and makes the ...
Hussain, M. Iftikhar; Danish, Subhan; Sánchez-Moreiras, Adela M.; Vicente, Oscar; Jabran, Khawar; Chaudhry, Usman Khalid; Branca, Ferdinando; Reigosa, Manuel J.(MDPI, 2021-09)
[EN] Allelopathy is an ecological phenomenon that involves the production and release of biomolecules from different crops, cultivated plants, and bacteria or fungi into the soil rhizosphere
and impacts other organisms in ...
Carrión Satorre, Judith(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-10-04)
[ES] Los productos de panadería y bollería son muy consumidos en la actualidad por diversos
grupos poblacionales, por ello tiene especial interés la reformulación de estos productos con
vistas a mejorar su calidad ...