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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 5, 2021
An early estimation of the exact number of fruits, flowers, and trees helps farmers to make better decisions on cultivation practices, plant disease prevention, and the size of harvest labor force. The current practice of yield estimation based on ma...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Feb 11, 2021
Fruit maturity is a critical factor in the supply chain, consumer preference, and agriculture industry. Most classification methods on fruit maturity identify only two classes: ripe and unripe, but this paper estimates six maturity stages of papaya f...
Journal of food science
Jan 12, 2021
The study aims to formulate a mixed fruit beverage through sensory analysis, and the composition was optimized using a fuzzy logic algorithm. The fuzzy optimization algorithm was developed using a modified Takagi and Sugeno's approach, polynomial mix...
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
Dec 11, 2020
BACKGROUND: This paper proposes a novel method to improve accuracy and efficiency in detecting the quality of blueberry fruit, taking advantage of deep learning in classification tasks. We first collected 'Tifblue' blueberries at seven different stag...
Journal of ethnopharmacology
Nov 8, 2020
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Kidney deficiency is the main pathogenesis of osteoporosis based on the theory of "kidney governing bones" in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Osteoporosis is a systemic disease; kidney deficiency influences the gro...
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
Oct 2, 2020
BACKGROUND: The San Francisco Valley region from Brazil is known worldwide for its fruit production and exportation, especially grapes and wines. The grapes have high quality not only due to the excellent morphological characteristics, but also to th...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 2, 2020
Secure grasping of fragile fruits and other agricultural products without potential slip and damage is still a challenge due to the size and shape varying, bruise susceptible, as well as hardness changing during fruit and vegetable maturation. In the...
Food chemistry
Jul 4, 2020
Arbutus unedo L. (strawberry tree) has showed considerable content in phenolic compounds, especially flavan-3-ols (catechin, gallocatechin, among others). The interest of flavan-3-ols has increased due their bioactive actions, namely antioxidant and ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 25, 2020
Automatic detection of intact tomatoes on plants is highly expected for low-cost and optimal management in tomato farming. Mature tomato detection has been wildly studied, while immature tomato detection, especially when occluded with leaves, is diff...
Pest management science
Apr 20, 2020
BACKGROUND: The fruit fly Drosophila suzukii, or spotted wing drosophila (SWD), is a serious pest worldwide, attacking many soft-skinned fruits. An efficient monitoring system that identifies and counts SWD in crops and their surroundings is therefor...