Cactus Pear Fruit Production

Inglese, Paolo; Basile, Filadelfio; Schirra, M.

doi:10.1525/california/9780520231573.003.0010

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“…Cooperative rangeland improved through Acacia cyanophylla, Guettis, Tunisia (200 mm rainfall) 400-500 (Inglese et al, 2002). The fruit quality is quite similar to orange or papaya.…”

Section: How Cacti Can Help Adapting To Climate Change In Dry Areas?mentioning

confidence: 97%

Agricultural Technological and Institutional Innovations for Enhanced Adaptation to Environmental Change in North Africa

Nefzaoui¹,

Ketata²,

Mourid³

2012

International Perspectives on Global Environmental Change

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“…Cooperative rangeland improved through Acacia cyanophylla, Guettis, Tunisia (200 mm rainfall) 400-500 (Inglese et al, 2002). The fruit quality is quite similar to orange or papaya.…”

Section: How Cacti Can Help Adapting To Climate Change In Dry Areas?mentioning

confidence: 97%

Agricultural Technological and Institutional Innovations for Enhanced Adaptation to Environmental Change in North Africa

Nefzaoui¹,

Ketata²,

Mourid³

2012

International Perspectives on Global Environmental Change

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“…It is a wild fruit which grows under arid and semiarid conditions [34], [12], [30]. The demand of nutraceuticals, natural ingredients and health-promoting foods is continuously increasing.…”

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Response Surface Modeling of Prickly Pear Juice Clarification

Davara¹,

Varshney²,

Naliapara³

et al. 2017

AFSE

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Abstract. Raw juice of prickly pear is viscous and turbid in nature. The clarity of such juice can be improved through enzymatic clarification. An experiment was conducted to standardize the process parameters for clarification of prickly pear juice using pectinase enzyme. Experiment was designed according to response surface methodology (RSM) by keeping three selected independnt variables at five different levels, i.e. enzyme concentrations (0.01, 0.026, 0.050, 0.074 and 0.09%), incubation temperatures (40, 44, 50, 56 and 60 °C), and incubation time (60, 84, 120, 156 and 180 min). Second order central composite rotatable design was employed to study the effect of enzymatic treatments on yield, viscosity, clarity, and turbidity of juice. Response surface modeling showed that the generated regression models were adequate to explain the data variation as well as the the actual relationship between independent variables and responses. The coefficient of determination, R 2 values for all the selected parameters were greater than 0.9. Through response surface analysis, the optimum conditions for enzymatic clarification of prickly pear juice were established as 0.056% enzyme concentration, 47 °C incubation temperature, and 155 min incubation time. This interaction of process parameteres was able to improve the yield by up to 88.83% and clarity up to 52.86% as well as decreasing the viscosity by up to 1.60 cP, and turbidity by up to 123.02 NTU.

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“…Species from the genus Opuntia are cultivated worldwide as fruit and vegetable crops (Inglese et al, 2002) and have gained economic importance in many countries of Europe, America, Asia and Africa (Basile, 2001). Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill.…”

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Sexual Propagation of the Tunisian Spinescent Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill., Morphogenetic Deployment and Polymorphism

Stambouli-Essassi

Zakraoui

Bouzid

et al. 2017

Not Bot Horti Agrobo

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The most common means of Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill. propagation is through the use of asexually methods without genetic recombination which has been extensively studied for commercial purpose or to reduce erosion and desertification. However, seeds are important units to be considered for maintaining the species genetic variability. With the aim to undrestand the morphogenetic polymorphism deployment of the Tunisian spinescent Opuntia ficus-indica from the juvenile to the advanced stages, we search, firstly, the optimal conditions permetting to ensure the highest germination rate during the shortest period with sulphuric acid scarification in ten levels time of dipping. The best germinated rate (68.0%) is reached within 30 min of treatment exposure. Some germinated seeds showed polyembryony phenomenon. The highest rate (29.3%) was recorded after 25 and 30 min of pretreatment. Occurrence of morphogenetic abnormalities: tricotyledony, dissymmetried, coiled and adhered cotyledons in percentages varying from 12.8 to 20.0% was also reported. Secondly, a morphogenetic tracking of Opuntia ficus-indica young seedlings to adult plants during seven years (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015) from the germination of seeds to the production of seeds was performed. This essay allowed us to report major seedling characteristics, their growth and phenotypic polymorphism: vertical succession of varying numbers of basal cladodes, future plant trunk formation, development and arrangement of secondary cladodes in the space, spinescence polymorphism and the first flowering and fruiting.

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Cactus Pear Fruit Production

Cited by 75 publications

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Agricultural Technological and Institutional Innovations for Enhanced Adaptation to Environmental Change in North Africa

Agricultural Technological and Institutional Innovations for Enhanced Adaptation to Environmental Change in North Africa

Response Surface Modeling of Prickly Pear Juice Clarification

Sexual Propagation of the Tunisian Spinescent Opuntia ficus-indica (L.) Mill., Morphogenetic Deployment and Polymorphism

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