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Water Loss: A Postharvest Quality Marker in Apple Storage
Apple fruit can be stored for long periods of time, especially with the use of controlled atmosphere storage, but like many fruits and vegetables are...
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Status of postharvest papaya anthracnose (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) in Assosa Zone, Western Ethiopia
Papaya is among the most economically important fruit crops cultivated in Ethiopia supporting the livelihood of thousands of people. Anthracnose of...
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Sustainable Solutions for Postharvest Berry Protection: Natural Edible Coatings
Berries, a diverse group of small and colorful fruits, constitute a crucial food of a balanced diet. However, they are fruits that spoil quickly,...
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Trends in Potassium Permanganate (Ethylene Absorbent) Management Strategies: Towards Mitigating Postharvest Losses and Quality of Mango (Mangifera indica L) Fruit
Mango fruit exhibited great postharvest losses due to its climacteric pattern of respiration and high perishability. During storage periods, a high...
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Advances in Vacuum Ultraviolet Photolysis in the Postharvest Management of Fruit and Vegetables Along the Value Chains: a Review
Postharvest losses and quality changes of fruit and vegetables, along the value chain, are a result of microbial activity and negative impacts of...
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Optimization of melatonin treatment using response surface methodology to enhance postharvest quality of lemon fruit during cold storage
The preservation of fruit quality and the extension of shelf life are commonly achieved through the utilization of cold storage. However, the...
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Bacterial Antagonists: Effective Tools for the Management of Postharvest Diseases in Fruits, Vegetables, and Food Grains
Microorganisms play an important role in our daily life through their presence in human intestine to the microbial flora of the earth. Fresh produce...
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Development of biocomposite films incorporated with the extract from pitcher associated bacteria for the postharvest protection from fungi
Pythium aphanidermatum is known to cause diseases like dam**-off, root rot, stem rot and fruit rot in a wide range of plants . Eventhough many...
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Enhancement of Biocontrol Agents Activity by Compatible Treatments Against Postharvest Disease of Fruits
Despite the ability of microbial antagonists to control postharvest spoilage, the looking for the consistently high level of disease control using...
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Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum): Production and Postharvest Treatments
The “Queen of Spices” cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum Maton) originated in the Western Ghats of South India. It is one of the rarest and most...
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Improvement of physicochemicals, antioxidant system and softening enzymes by postharvest L-arginine application leads to maintain persimmon fruit quality under low temperature storage
Persimmon ( Dispyros kaki ) is highly perishable fruit and exhibit limited shelf life due to higher respiration and transpiration activities. The...
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Preservation of postharvest quality and bioactive compounds in sweet cherry using carboxymethyl cellulose films enriched with Thymus vulgaris L. essential oil
The study examined the impact of edible carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) films containing thyme essential oil (TEO) on the postharvest quality of...
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Postharvest application effect of agave fructans on anthracnose disease, defense-related enzyme activities, and quality attributes in avocado fruit
The postharvest application of high degree of polymerization agave fructans (HDPAF) was tested, evaluating anthracnose disease, defense-related...
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Extension of Solanaceae Food Crops Shelf Life by the Use of Elicitors and Sustainable Practices During Postharvest Phase
This review focus on the use of elicitors of plant defense for shelf life extension of the four main Solanaceae food crops: potatoes ( Solanum...
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Postharvest handling of ethylene with oxidative and absorptive means
Fruit ripening is an unfolding of a series of genetically-programmed modifications and tend to be highly orchestrated irrevocable phenomenon mediated...
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Biodegradable Cellulose and Cellulose Nanofibres-Based Coating Materials as a Postharvest Preservative for Horticultural Products
AbstractCurrently, the packaging material is composed of fossil fuel-based plastics, which are non-biodegradable. Therefore, the biodegradable...
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Hyperspectral Imaging and Related Machine Learning for Postharvest Bruise Damage Detection and Analysis of Fresh Food Produce
During the past couple of decades, the technique of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has developed rapidly and successfully applied as a novel...
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Effects of different postharvest techniques on quality management and shelf life of ‘Kinnow’ mandarin fruit
In present era, consumers mostly demand for fungicide or pesticide free fruit as their use may be harmful for human health as well as they degrade...
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Influence of a biological coating and a wax on postharvest quality of mango (Mangifera indica L) variety “Keitt”
Mango ( Mangifera indica L) is one of the most important tropical fruits worldwide; however, being a climacteric fruit, its postharvest deterioration...
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Preventive and Curative Antifungal Activity of the Sodium Silicate on Postharvest Crown Rot in Banana cv. Enano Gigante
The antifungal activity of sodium silicate (SS) on crown rot (CR) of banana cv. 'Enano Gigante' artificially inoculated with C. musae (Cm) and...