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FAIMS based sensing of Burkholderia cepacia caused sour skin in onions under bulk storage condition

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Onion (Allium cepa L.) is one of the most important vegetable crops in the Pacific Northwestern states of the U.S., and is stored for 9–12 months under bulk storage condition. Portable non-contact sensing technologies are needed to effectively detect pathogenic infections to the onion bulbs during bulk storage periods for real-time crop loss management. Therefore, portable field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) was evaluated towards detection of onion sour skin caused by Burkholderia cepacia, an important postharvest disease under bulk storage conditions. Studied were onions stored at 25 °C under two treatment conditions, inoculated with B. cepacia and with sterile water (as control), during 21-days temporal storage. Results confirmed applicability of FAIMS to detect volatile organic compounds pertinent to B. cepacia caused sour skin as early as 3 days after inoculation. Principal component analysis (PCA) score plots for FAIMS extracted data illustrated distinct clusters corresponding to inoculated and healthy treatments. PCA also suggested a significant range of dispersion field intensity (47–77%) and compensation voltage (−0.24 to 0.48 V), which could potentially be used to train portable FAIMS for real-time detection of sour skin under bulk storage conditions.

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This activity was funded, in part, by the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture Project WNP00745. We would like to thank Mr. C. Zuniga and Mr. C. Zhang for their help in setting the experimental unit and data collection.

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    Rajeev Sinha & Lav R. Khot

  2. Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA

    Brenda K. Schroeder

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Sinha, R., Khot, L.R. & Schroeder, B.K. FAIMS based sensing of Burkholderia cepacia caused sour skin in onions under bulk storage condition. Food Measure 11, 1578–1585 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-017-9537-y

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