IMPROVING QUALITY AND PROLONGING SHELF LIFE OF GUAVA (PSIDIUM GUAJAVA L.) BY ORGANIC AND INORGANIC COMPOUNDS AND PLANT EXTRACTS

Improving quality and prolonging shelf life of guava (Psidium guajava L.) by organic and inorganic compounds and plant extracts

Shelf life of a fruit is an important consideration for its storage and marketing.Post-harvest losses of guava represent a massive loss and decreased our guava production every year.The current study was carried out in the Baramoon Experimental Farm of the Horticulture Research Institute, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, to evaluate the effect of pre-

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Energy costs for cutting soil with disks analysis

Introduction.When designing a unit for the formation of the underlying layer, the problem arose of choosing working bodies designed for preliminary loosening of the surface layer of soil saturated with plant roots, with the aim of subsequent exposure of the underlying layer of the road under construction.When choosing the working bodies of technica

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Small non-flying mammals from conserved and altered areas of Atlantic Forest and Cerrado: comments on their potencial use for monitoring environment

Two Atlantic Forests and two Cerrado areas in Brazil were sampled for non-flying small mammal fauna.In each biome one area with altered Minerals for Kids and another with almost unaltered vegetation (national parks), were chosen to investigate these fauna.Species richness of Atlantic Forest and Cerrado was comparable in the conserved as well as in

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