For reducing the post-harvest loss and extension of shelf-life of banana, it is treated with fungicide or combination of fungicide and hot-water treatment. A study was conducted for developing a method to control post-harvest diseases and extension of shelf-life of banana through non-chemical method of hot water treatment. The best treatment combination was found at 53 °C for 9 minutes. Shelf-l...

Post harvest losses are the major threats in supply chain between and consumption which contribute 44% of total loss fruits vegetables. Among various causes, post diseases decay vegetables accounting for 20-25% losses. The causative fungus belonging to both biotrophic necrotrophic nature belongs genera Aspergillus, Penicillium, Botrytis, etc. Management by conventional chemicals is not preferre...

Fruits and vegetables are extremely susceptible to decay and easily lose commercial value after harvest. Different strategies have been developed to control postharvest decay and prevent quality deterioration during postharvest storage, including cold storage, controlled atmosphere (CA), and application of biotic and abiotic stimulus. In this review, mechanisms related to protein level response...

Quantitative microbial risk assessment models for estimating the annual risk of enteric virus infection associated with consuming raw vegetables that have been overhead irrigated with nondisinfected secondary treated reclaimed water were constructed. We ran models for several different scenarios of crop type, viral concentration in effluent, and time since last irrigation event. The mean annual...

Standing dead trees, or snags, serve myriad functions in natural forests, but are often scarce forests managed for timber production. Variable retention (VR), the of live and trees through harvest, has been adopted globally as a less intensive form regeneration harvest. In this study, we explore how two key elements VR systems — level (amount) spatial pattern live-tree affect carryover post-har...

0378-1127/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.08.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 612 626 4280; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M.B. Russell) (A.R. Weiskittel). 1 This research was conducted while M.B. Russell w School of Forest Resources. Snags are an important component of forest structure and a key carbon pool, but there is currently a ...

Abstract The combination of preharvest treatments with calcium chloride and fungicides, storage maturity graded fruit were assessed in five European plum cultivars. At harvest, samples within a commercially suitable range ripening divided into two categories: less-ripe (tree ripe-) more-ripe ripe+). stored for 10–14 days at 4 °C followed by 2–3 20 before the assessment fungal decay. If was appl...