Young Minds Award Winners
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Patrick Mdemba is currently a Master’s candidate at the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boqer, Israel. He works under the supervision of Prof. Noemi Tel-Zur and Prof. Arnon Dag. His research is focused on “Fertilization of table grapes […]5 October 2024 -
In a mature market, interest in offering new plant material is more important than ever before. Japanese (Prunus salicina) and European (Prunus domestica) plum species, including plum and apricot hybrids, have become the focus of renewed breeding programs to develop novel fruit ideotypes. Resistance to disease, especially plum pox virus (PPV) and brown rot, environmental […]5 October 2024 -
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Lijun Zhou, a PhD candidate at the School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, China, under the supervision of Prof. Chao Yu, is exploring the mechanisms responsible for the fragrance of roses. Rose is one of the most important ornamental plants with high edible and medicinal values, and is widely cultivated worldwide for perfume production. […]9 June 2024 -
Jujube is the most important species in the Rhamnaceae family in terms of its economic, ecological, and social importance. It is also one of the oldest cultivated fruit trees in the world. More recently, jujube is attracting greater interest among researchers, farmers and consumers worldwide. While food products derived from jujube are seldom seen on […]9 June 2024 -
Yu Kyeong Shin is a research associate professor at the Department of Horticulture, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea, where she collaborates with Professor Jun Gu Lee on the physiology of vegetable cultivation. She completed her PhD in 2022, with her dissertation entitled “Evaluation of abiotic stress tolerance in vegetable plug seedlings using non-destructive chlorophyll fluorescence […]9 June 2024 -
To feed an estimated population of 9.7 billion by 2050, food production needs to increase significantly while protecting the environment and minimizing food waste. One promising approach lies in organic alternatives to chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Through the farming of insects, organic waste is bioconverted into larval biomass to be used as livestock feed, but […]9 June 2024 -
Emulsions, such as creams, dressings and desserts, are an important part of the food industry and our daily lives. However, the food industry rarely explores non-aqueous systems such as oil-in-oil (O/O) emulsions due to the difficulty of finding suitable emulsifiers with hydrophobic nature and the few edible compounds available. Different from typical oil-in-water (O/W) and […]9 June 2024