Exercise enhances physical performance and reduces the risk of many disorders such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia and cancer. Exercise characteristically incites an inflammatory response, notably in skeletal muscles. While some effector mechanisms have been identified, regul...

Horticulturists are interested in evaluating how cultivar, environment, or production system inputs can affect postharvest quality. Ambient mass spectrometry approaches enable analysis of minimally processed samples under ambient conditions and offer an attractive high-throughput alternative for ...

Contamination of fresh produce with human pathogens remains a serious public health and economic concerns due to the absence of effective kill steps in the farm-to-fork chain. In particular, the pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 has been implicated in multiple illness outbreaks linked to lettuc...