citrus Articles
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Distillation of ethyl alcohol from citrus oil - Case Study
“BUCHI partners with clients big and small to provide innovative solutions to their pressing business challenges.” Company / Institution A local producer of citrus-based ingredients, USA Product lines Industrial Evaporation Industries Food & Beverage Customer: A local producer of citrus-based ingredients, USA This BUCHI customer is a family-owned company which grew to ...
By BUCHI
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100% Faster Growth of Oranges in the USA - Case Study
Details: KR Citrus grows the navel and Valencia cultivars of oranges. They installed the Kyminasi Plant Booster (KPB) technology in order to test if KPB would help bring their oranges to maturity ...
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Improved Recovery of the Fungicide Carbendazim from Various Orange Juice Matrices by Employing QuEChERS Cleanup
Fungicide carbendazim can sometimes be used to combat mold on citrus fruits including oranges. Recently, low residue levels of the fungicide were reported to be present in the bulk orange juice import shipments to the USA. Because this compound can persist through processing steps and may be found in the final consumer product, many government agencies have established maximum residue limits ...
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BION Fungi Stop to control the growth of fungi in non-climacteric fruit
Bioconservacion presents a new product developed specifically for postharvest non-climacteric fruit preservation, especially citrus fruits and pineapple. The results of a recent survey carried out by the University of Costa Rica show that the BION Fungi Stop contributes to controlling the proliferation of fungi and bacteria in non-climacteric fruit (including pineapple and citrus fruits) by ...
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CI-900 for de-greening citrus gets even better
On Friday we had a wonderful call from a happy citrus grower, actually the production director from one of the largest citrus growers in the country. He was quite pleaased with the performance of his CI-900 Ethylene Analyzer evaluation unit which was great to hear however almost as exciting was the opportunity to share the news that the unit that he eventually will receive will perform better ...
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Citrus Juice Processor
A large citrus juice processor was using conventional chemistry (alum as the coagulant and a cationic flocculant) to treat their wastewater. The pH has wide swings from a low of 3.0 during processing to a high of 11.5 from their sanitizing steps. Their effluent quality varied due to the pH swings and the limitation of the performance of the chemistry. A comparison of the water is shown below ...
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Changes in physico–chemical characteristics of mandarin (common Mediterranean cultivar) Chiotiko (Citrus deliciosa Tenore) from Chios Island in Greece - evaluation of antioxidant capacity and flavonoid content of citrus peels
The objective of this study was to evaluate the changes in physico–chemical parameters of mandarin Mediterranean common cultivar Chiotiko (Citrus delicioza, Tenore) during ripening up to full maturity, from different regions of Kampos in Chios Island, Greece. Samples were collected from four different regions: Panagia Evreti, Talaros, Lolodentra and Kardamada from selected producers. According to ...
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100% Faster Growth of Dragon Fruit in the USA - Case Study
Details: KR Citrus grows dragon fruit plants for resale to retail gardening chains. The Kyminasi Plant Booster (KPB) technology was installed in May 2020 to accelerate plant ...
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Climatic and intertrophic effects detected in 10-year population dynamics of biological control of the arrowhead scale by two parasitoids in southwestern Japan
Relative effects of weather and three-trophic interactions were studied for a classical biological control system consisting of the arrowhead scale Unaspis yanonensis, known formerly as a serious pest of the Satsuma mandarin orange Citrus unshiu, and its two introduced parasitoids, Coccobius fulvus and Aphytis yanonensis. Yearly population responses of the three insect species on a per-tree basis ...
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Bi-On reduces the incidence of oleocellosis in Navel oranges
Citrus fruit exhibit low levels of ethylene production and are classified as non-climacteric fruit. Although the citrus fruits produce only small amounts of ethylene it is well known that the fruit do respond to ethylene. Such as non-climacteric fruits, ethylene exposure does not hasten fruit ripening but accelerates fruit senescence. Certain unwanted responses of citrus fruit to ethylene in ...
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How the University of Florida uses 200 root tube installations with the CI-602 root imager
The University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Plant Root Biology Laboratory led by Dr. Lorenzo Rossi is located at the Indian River Research and Education Center (UF/IFAS IRREC) in Fort Pierce, Florida. Situated in the heart of the premiere grapefruit growing region of the world, the lab primarily uses the CI-602 root imager to study grapefruit root growth and ...
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Homosassa Springs Dream Home - Case Study
Septic shouldn't be a nightmare for a Dream Home A single-family residence located upon the environmentally sensitive main basin of the Homosassa River in Homosassa Springs Florida (near Orlando) had big plans for their old Florida "vernacular" home design. They had major set-backs from the beginning due to the lot size and location; they also began construction without the proper permits and not ...
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Survey of lanthanoids in plants from a tropical region
Several anthropogenic sources may provide lanthanoids (La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb and Yb) to the agricultural and forestry landscapes. Because little information is available on the distribution of these chemical elements in Brazilian tropical ecosystems, this work focuses on the survey in leaves of diverse plant species (native trees, epiphytes and crops) from different ecosystems. Soil under crown ...
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Advances in control of postharvest diseases in tropical fresh produce
With increased global trade, fresh produce is increasingly being moved over vast distances to foreign markets. This requires effective cold chain and product management practices to ensure premium quality fresh produce with increased shelf life. Product safety has now also become an additional minimum requirement for market entry. Producers should therefore take cognisance of the impact ...
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USDA APHIS Reopens Public comment period on the dEIS And PRA
On April 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced the reopening of the public review and comment period for the draft Environmental Impact Statement (dEIS) and the preliminary Pest Risk Assessment (PRA). These two documents have been prepared in response to a permit application from a company requesting the ...
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The impact of climate change and soil salinity in irrigation water demand on the Gaza Strip
The presented work analyzes the potential impacts of the temperature, precipitation changes and water salinity on agricultural water demand. The study was carried out on five representative orchard crops (olive, palm, grapes, citrus and guava) that cover around 83% of the orchard farms in Gaza Strip. To achieve this goal, CropWat modeling software version 8.0 is used to calculate the ...
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Social life cycle assessment and participatory approaches: A methodological proposal applied to citrus farming in Southern Italy
Recently, Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) has been developed under the methodological framework of Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) in order to evaluate the social impacts that emerge during the overall life cycle of a product or service. There is not yet a standardised methodology for S‐LCA as there is for environmental LCA (eLCA), because the social impacts S‐LCA is concerned with not only ...
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New market channels for a non-food agricultural product. The development of an alternative supply chain for the bergamot citrus in Calabria, Italy
The bergamot, a typical fruit of the Italian region of Calabria, contains an essence that is a basic component for the perfume industry. In the last decades bergamot sector declined dramatically, because of the introduction of an artificial substitute of the essence and for the producers' fragmentation. After describing the evolution of the industry and of the supply-chain structure, the paper ...
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Mineral Oxychloride to rescue citrus market in Florida
Since 2019 over 75% of the citrus crops (oranges 75% and grapefruit 85%) has been lost due to an infectious bacterium called huanglongbing (HLB) commonly known as “citrus greening”. Leaves of newly affected trees developed blotchy mottle appearance and the fruit is of no value-it has limited use in juicing operation. As of today, there has not being a commercially available solution ...
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Improper Use of Chemicals in Farming A Case Study
In India, thousands of tonnes of crop gets destroyed every year due to improper use of insecticides, pesticides, plant growth regulators etc. This destruction of crop can happen either if a farmer uses these chemicals without any scientific knowledge by themselves or by relying on their local shops. Most of the times, the people handling these local shops do not have any ...
By Farmonaut
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