Water absorption by slices of storage organ tissue is markedly enhancedl in the presence of auxin (1,3,4,5). A lag period that varies from hours to days, depending on the type of tissue and its storage history, precedes auxin-indlucedl enlargement (1, 2, 3). When bulky storage organs are sliced, there is a general quickening of metabolic activity which increases with time (1, 6, 7, 10). In pota...

The dehydration parameters (temperature, thickness, and mass load) statistically significantly (p<0.05) affect the thin-layer convective of potato slices. slices with thicknesses 3, 5, 8 mm were dehydrated as monolayers at different temperatures (30, 50, 70 °C) load (1.00, 0.63, 0.38 kg m-2). results showed that shortest time (183 minutes), smallest energy consumption (0.176 kWh), emission c...

In the food industry, convective drying is a widely used method due to its applicability many materials. Besides this advantage of method, there are several shortcomings related rehydration capacity, low quality dried material, loss color, flavour, and nutrient final paper, kinetics osmotically pre-treated potato slices (variety Carrera) were analyzed. Thin-layer at four air temperatures 40, 50...

Fusarium dry rot on potato, caused by the fungal pathogen solani, is characterized an internal light to dark brown or black and usually of potato tubers. The disease progresses noticeably faster during latter half storage season. Biological control intriguing concept, but currently, no products are available commercially. It was found that essential oil a number Lamiaceae species, including ore...