Selective limb removal pruning and reflective ground covers improve light and crop distributions in the lower zone of ‘Nonpareil’almond trees but not total yield.

Conventional planting and management systems for almond (Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb) orchards involve trees trained from an early age to produce multiple large scaffold branches, which in mature orchards form closed light inefficient canopies. Treatments included a single round of selective limb removal pruning applied at the start of the research to remove […]

Date Fruit Processing Waste and Approaches to Its Valorization: A Review.

In the Middle East and North Africa, dates are a traditional and economically valuable crop, playing an essential role in people's daily diets. Date fruit production and related processing industry generate a large quantity of waste; for illustration, the date juicing industry produces roughly 17-28% Date press cake (DPC), which is mainly discarded in open […]

Experimental and Theoretical Studies on Extract of Date Palm Seed as a Green Anti-Corrosion Agent in Hydrochloric Acid Solution.

Extracts from plant materials have great potential as alternatives to inorganic corrosion inhibitors, which typically have harmful consequences. Experimental and theoretical methodologies studied the effectiveness of agricultural waste, namely, date palm seed extract as a green anti-corrosive agent in 0.5 M hydrochloric acid. Experimental results showed that immersion time and temperature are closely related to […]

Healthier and more sustainable diets: What changes are needed in high‐income countries?.

Debate persists around the food production and dietary changes needed to improve sustainability of our global food system. We reviewed 29 studies in high-income countries that used various methodologies to define a healthier, more sustainable diet. Diets aligned with dietary guidelines, containing less meat and higher amounts of plant-derived foods (vegetables, pulses [beans/lentils], fruit, wholegrains, […]

Research Full Papers Effect of food processing on aflatoxin reduction in cereals and nuts: A meta-analysis approach.

Fungal toxins, mycotoxinssuch as aflatoxins, are compounds produced by different fungi during the growth and reproduction period. The most important fungal toxins that jeopardize human health are aflatoxins, which are produced by Aspergillus fungi and can grow in all crops. With toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxins, many studies were performed using different methods to […]