After automatic in-field picking, apple stem shortening requires fixing the apple position and maintaining a relatively stable posture, which puts high demands on the automatic apple-orienting structure. In this paper, a novel dual roller compact app...
A field-based apple detection and grading device was developed and used to detect and grade apples in the field using a deep learning framework. Four features were selected for apple grading, namely, size, color, shape, and surface defects, and detec...
The aim of this study was to determine the quality characteristics and bioactive components of the local variety “Long Apple”. Although it is a very delicious and popular old apple variety, the knowledge about “Long Apple” is...
Apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) is an important fruit crop widely spread in the cold and mild climates of temperate regions in the world, with more than 93 million tons harvested worldwide in 2021. The object of this work was to analyze thirty...
Meteorological conditions are important environmental factors affecting apple quality. To understand the possible impact of climate change on the apple quality of the major producing areas in China and assess the quality of major apple species (e.g.,...
This review summarizes body circumference-based anthropometrics that are in common use for research and in some cases clinical application. These include waist and hip circumference-based central body indices to predict cardiometabolic risk: waist ci...
Spectroscopic methods deliver a valuable non-destructive analytical tool that provides simultaneous qualitative and quantitative characterization of various samples. Apples belong to the world’s most consumed crops and with the current challenges of...
Hail, known as an agricultural meteorological disaster, can substantially constrain the growth of the apple industry. Presently, apple orchards use a variety of colored (photo-selective) hail nets as a preventative measure. However, it is unclear whi...
Earlier studies suggested that traditional apple varieties have quality traits well accepted by consumers and beneficial effects on human health. The aim was to collect 25 traditional apple varieties grown in Croatia and to determine, for the first t...
Dried red-fleshed apples are considered a promising high-quality product from the functional foods category. The objective of this study was to compare the flesh features of freeze-dried red-fleshed apples belonging to the ‘Alex Red’, &ls...
A novel and green procedure consisting of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) aided by a commercial cellulase (Celluclast®) has been applied to valorise the apple by-product, a valuable source of dietary fibre but mainly composed by insoluble fibre....
The experiment was conducted at the Taidong Base of Shandong Institute of Pomology, Tai’an City, Shandong Province, China, from May to October 2022. Using Fuji Apple Tianhong.2/SH/Malus robusta (M. robusta) as experimental materials, the differ...
This paper presents an automatic parameter tuning procedure specially developed for a dynamic adaptive thresholding algorithm for fruit detection. One of the major algorithm strengths is its high detection performances using a small set of training i...
In this article, the effects of different phenolic acids, such as ferulic, gallic, caffeic, coumaric, protocatechuic, and sinapic, as active compounds on the sorption and wetting properties of apple pectin-based edible films were evaluated. The contr...
This paper proposes an underactuated dexterous hand with novel bidirectional self-locking joints (BSJs) that enable multiple fingertip motion trajectories. The BSJ design integrates a locking wheel, rack, finger side walls, and a self-holding electro...
The aim of this study was to explore the impacts of hail-proof nets with different coverage years on the environment, leaf traits and fruit quality of ‘Fuji’ apple orchards, with the expectation of providing a basis for the scientific app...
Citrus leaf blotch virus (CLBV) is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the genus Citrivirus within the family Betaflexiviridae. It infects a broad range of economically significant fruit crops, including citrus, kiwifruit, and app...
The extraction of information about individual trees is essential to supporting the growing of fruit in orchard management. Data acquired from spectral sensors mounted on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have very high spatial and temporal resolution....
Fruits are considered among the most nutrient-dense cash crops around the globe. Since fruits come in different types, sizes, shapes, colors, and textures, the manual classification and disease identification of a large quantity of fruit is time-cons...