Climate change impacts on winter chill for temperate fruit and nut production: A review.
Economic returns from fungicide application to control husk spot of macadamia in Australia is influenced by spray efficiency, rates and costs of application
Resveratrol effects on astrocyte function: Relevance to neurodegenerative diseases
Mediterranean diet and CHD: the Greek European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort.
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) has been reported to improve CHD prognosis and to be inversely associated with CHD mortality. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of adherence to the MD with CHD incidence and mortality in the Greek European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort, a population […]
Dietary macronutrients and food consumption as determinants of long-term weight change in adult populations: a systematic literature review.
Effects of the ethylene inhibitor aminoethoxyvinylglycine (AVG) on fruit abscission and yield on pruned and unpruned macadamia trees
Quality changes in macadamia kernel between harvest and farm-gate.
BACKGROUND: Macadamia integrifolia; Macadamia tetraphylla and their hybrids are cultivated for their edible kernels. After harvest; nuts-in-shell are partially dried on-farm and sorted to eliminate poor-quality kernels before consignment to a processor. During these operations; kernel quality may be lost. In this study; macadamia nuts-in-shell were sampled at five points of an on-farm postharvest handling […]
Dropping macadamia nuts-in-shell reduces kernel roasting quality
BACKGROUND: Macadamia nuts ('nuts-in-shell') are subjected to many impacts from dropping during postharvest handling; resulting in damage to the raw kernel. The effect of dropping on roasted kernel quality is unknown. Macadamia nuts-in-shell were dropped in various combinations of moisture content; number of drops and receiving surface in three experiments. After dropping; samples from each […]
Nezara viridula (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) feeding patterns in macadamia nut in Hawaii: nut maturity and cultivar effects
Nezara viridula L. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a serious pest of macadamia nuts; Macadamia integrifolia; in Hawaii. Using ruthenium red dye to stain stink bug feeding probes; feeding activity was determined for nuts of various maturity levels harvested from the tree and off the ground throughout the growing season in five commercial cultivars. Damage occurred in […]
The lipid messenger OEA links dietary fat intake to satiety
The association between fat consumption and obesity underscores the need to identify physiological signals that control fat intake. Previous studies have shown that feeding stimulates small-intestinal mucosal cells to produce the lipid messenger oleoylethanolamide (OEA) which; when administered as a drug; decreases meal frequency by engaging peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors-alpha (PPAR-alpha). Here; we report that duodenal […]