Strawberry Desiccation and Gloss in Refrigerated Storage Depend on the Interaction between Cultivar and Time after Harvest

The objectives of this study were to characterize strawberry cultivars grown under two production systems for gloss at harvest as a proxy for freshness and assess cultivar differences regarding the loss of gloss and changes in desiccation scores during refrigerated postharvest storage.Nine strawberry cultivars were grown in an annual plasticulture

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Multiplex detection of bacteria on an integrated centrifugal disk using bead-beating lysis and loop-mediated amplification

Abstract Although culture-based BODY WASH COCONUT identification of bacteria is the gold-standard for the diagnosis of infectious diseases, it is time consuming.Recent advances in molecular diagnostics and microfluidic technologies have opened up new avenues for rapid detection of bacteria.Here, we describe a centrifugal-microfluidic chip for the d

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