Szilvia Ráth

Agricultural Biotechnology Center

For thousands of years, chili pepper has been used in cooking intensifying the aroma, colouring, and even flavouring with its pungency. Today ,it is also of interest for the various food and pharmaceutical industries due to its intrinsic characteristics. These characteristics of pepper and its yield can be affected by both the variety and the tempe...

An efficient and rapid liquid chromatographic method was developed for the separation of carotenoids and their geometrical isomers in tomato products using a core C30 column of 2.6 μm particles with gradient elution of tert-butyl-methyl-ether in 2% water in methanol. Excellent separation of the major carotenoids such as lycopene, β-carotene and lut...

Chlorophyll fluorescence was measured of H1015 tomato hybrid with different bacterial treatments (B0-B1-B2-B3) and three irrigation treatments: regular irrigated (RI), deficit irrigated (DI) and non-irrigated conditions (I0). The aim of the experiments was to show the effects of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria on the yield, dry matter and vita...

Tomatoes ( Solanum lycopersicon L.) are one of the most important and most widely consumed vegetables in the world. The fruit contains considerable amount of different phytonutrients such as carotenoids, tocopherols, and vitamin C. In the present work, effects of some abiotic factors on the concentration of phytonutrients were investigated in tomat...

Chili pepper is a condiment of special interest in human nutrition and pharmaceutical industries. In addition to capsaicinoids it contains considerable amounts of vital phytochemicals such as vitamin C and carotenoids. Consumption of pepper is indicated as being nutritious, and beneficial health wise with the presence of vitamin C, natural antioxid...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.) is one of the most important and most widely consumed vegetable species in the world. Both of the processing and fresh tomato are very useful for the human body and plays an important role in health preservation because of their mineral content (Lugasi et al. 2004). The ecological conditions of Hungary are excellent...