Possible influences of water loss and polyphenol oxidase activity on anthocyanin content and discoloration in fresh ripe strawberry (cv. Oso Grande) during storage at 1 degrees C

Fresh‘Oso Grande’strawberries wrapped in polyvinyl chloride stretch film lost 0.7% of their initial weight during storage for 8 d at 1 °C, whereas unwrapped fruit lost 11%. Greater water loss was associated with darker and less red fruit, lower concentrations of anthocyanins and other soluble phenolics, and higher polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity. Anthocyanin degradation and oxidation of soluble phenolic compounds, caused possibly by increased PPO activity as a result of water loss, contributed to the development of strawberry surface browning during storage. Proper handling to reduce water loss during postharvest operations should be used to maintain acceptable color of strawberries during shipping and retailing

Animal performance and fatty acid composition of lambs fed with different vegetable oils.

Twenty-seven lambs were used to investigate the effects of the inclusion of 4% hydrogenated palm oil (HPO) or sunflower oil (SFO) in the concentrate on animal performance, carcass and meat quality and fat characteristics and fatty acid composition. Animals (16.2 ± 0.27 kg initial weight) were fed concentrate (Control, HPO or SFO) and barley straw ad libitum and slaughtered at 25 kg. SFO lambs tended to eat less concentrate than HPO animals (P 0.05). SFO decreased proportions of C16:0, C18:1 cis-11 and C18:3 (P < 0.05) and increased C18:1 trans (P < 0.001) and C18:2/C18:3 ratio (P < 0.05). Atherogenicity index was lower (P < 0.05) when SFO was included in the concentrate. HPO did not affected and SFO improved fatty acid composition of fattening lambs without affecting animal performance

Long-term priority effects among insects and fungi colonizing decaying wood

1. Priority effects have been hypothesized to have long-lasting impact on community structure in natural ecosystems. Long-term studies of priority effects in natural ecosystems are however sparse, especially in terrestrial ecosystems

Beauty, Symmetry, and Magnetocaloric Effect-Four-Shell Keplerates with 104 Lanthanide Atoms

通讯作者地址: Kong, XJThe hydrolysis of Ln(ClO4)(3) in the presence of acetate leads to the assembly of the three largest known lanthanide-exclusive cluster complexes, [Nd-104(ClO4)(6)(CH3COO)(60)(mu(3)-OH)(168)(mu(4)-O)(30)(H2O)(112)].(ClO4)(18).(CH3CH2OH)(8).xH(2)O (1, x approximate to 158) and [Ln(104)(ClO4)(6)(CH3COO)(56)(mu(3)-OH)(168)(mu(4)-O)(30)(H2O)(112)].(ClO4)(22).(CH3CH2OH)(2).xH(2)O (2, Ln = Nd; 3, Ln = Gd; x approximate to 140). The structure of the common 104-lanthanide core, abbreviated as Ln(8)@Ln(48)@Ln(24)@Ln(24), features a four-shell arrangement of the metal atoms contained in an innermost cube (a Platonic solid) and, moving outward, three Archimedean solids: a truncated cuboctahedron, a truncated octahedron, and a rhombicuboctahedron. The magnetic entropy change of Delta Sm = 46.9 J kg(-1) K-1 at 2 K for Delta H = 7 T in the case of the Gd-104 cluster is the largest among previously known lanthanide-exclusive cluster compounds.973 Project from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China 2012CB821704 2014CB845601 National Natural Science Foundation of China 21422106 21371144 21431005 21390391 Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China 201219 U.S. NSF APVV-0132-11 3001690 Czech Research Infrastructures LM201102