This study explores the acoustic, mechanical and sensory characteristics of Royal Gala dried apples, with a special focus on the potential of solar drying as a sustainable processing method. Apple samples were subjected to different drying techniques...
Drying conditions can markedly reshape the sensory and functional quality of fruit snacks and, ultimately, consumer acceptance. This study compares Royal Gala dried apple snacks produced by indirect sun drying (SDA), oven drying (ODA) and two commerc...
This study aimed to investigate culture conditions for the efficient micropropagation of apple cultivars ‘Golden Delicious’ and ‘Royal Gala’ in liquid medium by temporary immersion. RITA® bioreactors were used for the mult...
Nitrogen (N) effect on crop yield depends on several factors such as soil type, climatic characteristics and orchard management, including plant density and N fertilization. These variables can be used to develop yield prediction models, which are sc...
The yield of apple trees as a function of potassium fertilization and the critical levels (CLs) and sufficiency ranges (SRs) of K in the soil, leaves, and fruits were determined in two experiments (two orchards) in four crop seasons. Plants of &ldquo...
This research examines the effects of two irrigation strategies on water use efficiency and fruit yield components of ‘Royal Gala’ and ‘Brookfield Gala’ apple orchards in south-central Chile. The study was carried out during t...
Apples (Malus domestica) are one of the most widely grown and consumed fruits in the world that contain abundant phenolic compounds that possess remarkable antioxidant potential. The current study characterised phenolic compounds from five different...
This study compares the physicochemical properties of Royal Gala apple snacks fresh and processed using different methods: solar-dried (SD), oven-dried at 65 °C (OD65°) and 85 °C (OD85°) and two commercial brands (CC—commercial...
Crop coefficients are critical to developing irrigation scheduling and improving agricultural water management in farmland ecosystems. Interest in dwarf cultivation with high density (DCHD) for apple production increases in Aksu oasis, southern Xinji...
Currently, there is an increasing interest in the search of natural derived materials as valuable substitutes for microplastics. One of the categories investigated, represented by thickening agents deriving from agri-food waste and apple pomace (AP),...
The efficiency of natural olive pomace extracts for enhancing the quality of fresh-cut apples was compared with commercial ascorbic acid and two different packaging films (biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) and oriented polypropylene (OPP)) were tes...
Malus sieversii f. niedzwetzkyan, a wild species capable of growing on saline-alkali soil in Xinjiang, is the most promising horticultural crop for improving the saline-alkali wasteland. However, the tolerance of M. niedzwetzkyan to saline-alkali str...
Biochemical changes in the cell wall composition and activity of cell wall-modifying enzymes of five apple cultivars, Royal Gala (Gala), Aurora Golden Gala (Aur), Splendour (Spl), Honeycrisp (HC), and Ambrosia (Amb), collected from the 2016 growing s...
It is widely recognized that the quality of fruits and vegetables can be altered during transportation and storage. Firmness and loss of weight are the crucial attributes used to evaluate the quality of various fruits, as many other quality attribute...
Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) was used to extract bioactive compounds from apple (Malus domestica) peel waste from three different Italian cultivars. The bioactive fractions were extracted applying a temperature of 60 °C and a pressure of...
The aim of this study was to investigate the preferences of young adults in the Polish apple market in response to the declining consumption of these fruits. To address the research questions, a study was conducted among young adults using a custom-d...
The objective of this study was to determine if the application of two antitranspirant compounds would moderate water deficit stress effects on physiological responses of “Granny Smith”, “Royal Gala” and “Golden Delicious” apple (Malus domestica Bork...
Apple cultivars exhibit significant diversity in fruit quality traits, creating distinct consumption scenarios. This study aimed to assess the physicochemical parameters and sensory attributes differences among fifteen apple cultivars and identify ch...
Apple (Malus x domestica) fruit size is dependent on cell division and cell expansion, processes that are subsequently regulated by plant hormones such as auxins, gibberellins, and cytokinins. In this study, we investigated the role of cell division...
Triterpene acid and phenolic constituents from nine ancient varieties of apple (Malus domestica) fruits cultivated in Fanna, Friuli Venezia Giulia region, northeast Italy, were analyzed and compared with four commercial apples (‘Golden Deliciou...
Spectroscopy data are useful for modelling biological systems such as predicting quality parameters of horticultural products. However, using the wide spectrum of wavelengths is not practical in a production setting. Such data are of high dimensional...
This study aimed to determine the effect of irrigation amount (