Jul 13, 2022 | Application, Applications, Food Safety & Quality, News
Have you eaten the rainbow today? The SpectraWizard isn’t the only one who should be enjoying rainbows. One of the best ways to “eat the rainbow” as many nutritionists recommend is to fill your plate with a variety of colorful, flavorful, and nutrient-dense fruits and...
Jun 10, 2022 | Agriculture, Application, Applications, Displays & Radiometry, Food, Food Safety & Quality, SpectroRadiometry, UV SpectroRadiometry
F. Takeda, W. Janisiewicz, B. Short, T. Leskey, A. Stager Abstract Alternative disease and pest management strategies are needed due to increased resistance by strawberry pathogens and arthropod pests to currently used synthetic pesticides and increasing consumer...
Jun 9, 2022 | Application, Applications, Displays & Radiometry, Food Safety & Quality, Reflectance, Solar SpectroRadiometry, SpectroRadiometry, UV SpectroRadiometry
Johann Martínez-Lüscher, Luca Brillante, and Sahap Kaan Kurtural Abstract Exposure to solar radiation is a determining factor of grape composition. Flavonol synthesis is upregulated by solar radiation leaving a fingerprint on flavonol profile. This study aimed to test...
May 17, 2022 | Agriculture, Application, Applications, Biomedical & Life Science, Food, Food Safety & Quality, Industrial & Process Analysis, NIR
Sajad Sabzi, Razieh Pourdarbani, Mohammad H. Rohban, Ginés García-Mateos, Juan I. Arribas Abstract In recent years, farmers have often mistakenly resorted to overuse of chemical fertilizers to increase crop yield. However, excessive consumption of fertilizers might...
May 12, 2022 | Agriculture, Application, Applications, Displays & Radiometry, Environmental, Food, Food Safety & Quality, UV SpectroRadiometry
Wojciech Janisiewicz, Fumiomi Takeda, Breyn Evans, Mary Camp Abstract Recently developed, night-time irradiation provided the breakthrough that made ultraviolet (UV) technology with 254 nm (UV–C) commercially feasible as a sustainable alternative to synthetic...
May 5, 2022 | Agriculture, Application, Applications, Displays & Radiometry, Food Safety & Quality, SpectroRadiometry, UV SpectroRadiometry
Danyan Chen,Yanhao Mei,Qi Liu,Yongjun Wu,Zhenchao Yang Abstract Lettuce (Latuca sativa L.) is a commercially important crop and a good candidate for production in a plant factory with artificial lighting (PFAL). To explore the influence of CO2 enrichment (eCO2) on...