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 Prof. Ebru YAŞA KAFKAS University of Çukurova, Turkey |
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| Title: Comparison on Fruit Quality Characteristics of Berries | |
| Abstract: Fruits including berries are one of the most important sources of our daily nutritions due to their major aspect from point of view consumers. The fruit quality includes the internal and external properties. The internal quality mainly is determined by aroma, flavor, taste, texture, nutritional quality (soluble sugar content, starch, organic acids, soluble solids content, and carotenoids, total flavonoids, total phenolic, antioxidant activity), flesh firmness, dieases and chemical residues, while the external quality mainly concerns the appearance, size and colour and bruises. How to measure berry fruit quality has always been one of the most attractive research hotspots in the food industry. For the present, most of the available investigative methods are still destructive, labor and time-consuming, besides, several methods require sample preparation, costly instruments and chemicals, which can not be used for large-scale sample evaluation. With the increasing demands of real-time detection of fruit quality, the non-destructive fruit evaluation methods have been greatly developed. However, problems like low detection accuracy and poor model adaptability still remain in the non-destructive detection system. Thus, it is necessary to develop non-destructive, high-efficient, simple, accurate and low labor coasts techniques for fruit quality determination. In this paper, a comparison of different analytical methods for assessing fruit quality characteristics of berries were discussed. | |
| Biography: Ebru Yaşa KAFKAS completed her first degree and her PhD at the Çukurova University (Adana, Turkey). Her PhD was on “Identification of aroma compounds of some strawberry genotypes and relationship between aroma compounds and some fruit quality characteristics”. During his PhD, worked at Newe Ya’ar Research Center and Volcani research Center (Israel) years from 1998 to 2000 as visiting scientist and worked on “Flavour and Aroma Formation in Strawberry Fruits (F. xananassa), GIF (ISRAEL-GERMANY), Research Grant G591-113.12/98) and Improved Fruit Set and Elimination of Fruit Deformation in Strawberry via Biotechnological Manipulation, BARD (ISRAEL-GERMANY) Projects, 1999. Lately her group joined international projects and she is the National Coordinator of these projects: COST Action: CA15223 - Modifying plants to produce interfering RNA (2016-2019); PRIMA project: Developing new strategies to protect strawberry crop in Mediterranean countries (2019-2022); “Screening and functional analysis of blueberry VcGly I genes related to drought defense” (TUBİTAK 2019-2020); H2020-SFS-2018-2020 project: Genetic resources and pre-breeding communities. She currently holds the position of Professor of the University of Çukurova, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture and also a member of Biotechnology Department at the same university. Her scientific interests focus on breeding on fruit quality and to improve fruits rich in health related compounds. | |
