The prick-prick procedure, which involves dipping the tip of the skin lancet into a cut portion of the fresh fruit and then pricking the skin with the fruit residue, was used in testing the fruits.
Rafaat Mwasy hefted an etrog in his hand, testing the fruit's size and weight, poking at the thick, bumpy skin with a toothpick, looking for unsightly holes or bruises.
This season, he partnered with the California Strawberry Commission to test whether the fruit can be grown without fumigants in artificial soil.
Fruit were harvested when mature and assessed when ripe using a destructive puncture (penetrometric) test in the fruit cortex.
Laboratory tests indicate the fruit bodies to have antimicrobial activity, and contain alkaloids and tannins.
Based on this argument, we test the hypothesis that fruits in the Neotropics contain higher protein concentrations than fruits in Madagascar.
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To test the effect of fruit position (sun-exposed vs. within the crown) on fructose and glucose contents, the mean sugar contents for the two groups were compared using an independent t test.
The prevalence of sensitization to any of the tested fruits was 3.8% [rural: 24/740, urban: 33/742, p = 0.228]; and of these, pineapple was found to be the most allergenic [1.82% (27/1482)].
Table 2 also shows the results from contrasts performed to test the 'ontogeny' effect on the fruit quality parameters in the sweet orange lines.
For the compression test, 15 fruits per plant were assayed at each stage.
