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Tomato cultivar suitable for processing is both Roma and Punjab chhuara.
The Roma tomato or Roma is a plum tomato popularly used both for canning and producing tomato paste because of its slender and firm nature. Romas are a great source of potassium and vitamin C and many other nutrients.
Punjab chhura - Fruits are seedless, pear shape, red and firm with thick walls or skin. Marketable quality remains for 7 days after harvesting and is thus suitable for long-distance transportation and processing and processing. It gives an average yield of 325 qtl/acre.

Poisonous baiting is done to control fruitflies from the following options of insect pests.
Poisonous baits are a pesticide that is a mixture of food & something toxic that have lethal activity against targeted pests. The food usually acts as an attractant.
Bait sprays consist of liquid food (protein) attractant and an insecticide. Baits are generally sprayed onto the foliage and trunks of trees and plants. Both the male and female adult flies are attracted to the baits while foraging over the leaves for food and are poisoned after feeding on the spray droplets.

The sweet orange variety prone to pre-harvest fruit drops is Blood red malta.
Blood Oranges are a very unique species of orange. The malta fruit themselves are red fleshed and when juiced has a hint of raspberry. It is a very beautiful ornamental orange. The tree is evergreen and can grow to soar heights of 12 - 15 feet if planted outside.
The fruit Malta is also said to boost the immune system and to be effective for treating pneumonia, blood pressure, stomach and intestinal problems and diseases related to vitamin C deficiency.

Para rubber is Hevea brasiliensis.
It is the tree that naturally produces rubber. It is native to tropical areas in South America, in the Amazon (Brazil).
Para Rubber trees belong to the Euphorbiaceae family. In the wild, they may reach heights of 100 to 125 ft (30 - 38 m) with large cylindrical trunks with or without buttresses.
Their trunks are cut just deep enough to tap the vessels without harming the tree's growth and the sap is collected in small buckets. This process is known as rubber tapping.

The Father of systematic pomology is De Candolle.
De Candolle originated the idea of "Nature's war", which influenced Charles Darwin and the principle of natural selection.
Systematic pomology is the classification of fruits, practical pomology, the science of growing fruit, and commercial pomology, the science of marketing fruits.

An illness which is known as "favism" is caused in people due to an allergy to pollen and green pod of Broad bean.
The term 'favism' is used to indicate a severe reaction occurring on ingestion of foodstuffs consisting of or containing the beans of the leguminous plant Vicia faba (fava bean, broad bean). Within 6 - 24 h of the bean meal, the reaction manifests itself with prostration, pallor, jaundice and dark urine.
Some people suffer from favism, a hemolytic response to the consumption of broad beans, a condition linked to a metabolism disorder. Sufferers of favism must avoid broad beans, as they contain the alkaloid glycoside vicine which may initiate a hemolytic crisis.

Pollination in mango takes place by a housefly.
Mango (Mangifera indica) flowers are pollinated by various insects such as wasps, ants, flies, butterflies, beetles and bees as well as by wind. Major pollinating insects of mango were found to be from order Diptera, that is, Meliopona sp, Syrphus sp. House fly.
Flies and stingless bees are thought to be the main pollinators of mangoes as they visit the flowers in large numbers and disperse between different trees.

FPO specification for the concentration of SO₂ in squashes is 350 ppm.
The toxicity of SO₂ increases at high temperatures. Hence its effectiveness depends on the acidity, pH, temperature and substances present in fruit juice.
According to FPO, the maximum amount of SO₂ allowed in fruit juice is 700 ppm, in squash, crushed and cordial 350 ppm, and RTS and nectar 100 ppm.

The fruit type in Pomegranate is Balausta.
The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae.
Red-purple in color, the pomegranate fruit husk has two parts: an outer, hard pericarp and an inner, spongy mesocarp (white "albedo"), which comprises the fruit inner wall where seeds attach. The number of seeds in a pomegranate can vary from 200 to about 1,400.

Papaya latex is preserved using KMS.
Papaya latex is from the flower of male papaya with main compositions consisting of proteolytic enzymes, papain and chemopapain, glutamine cyclotransferase, chymopapain A, B and C, peptidase A and B and lysozymes.
Papaya latex is used since it contains papain enzyme that has been proven for its ability to reduce the solution of silver nitride into nanosilver ions.
The latex is mixed with KMS immediately after collection and stored at a cold temperature. It is spread in trays and dried in a vaccum shelf drier for about 4 hours. The dried papain is powdered in a hammer or roller mill and thus preserved.