Postharvest quality, technologies, and strategies to reduce losses along the supply chain of banana: A review

M Al-Dairi, PB Pathare, R Al-Yahyai… - Trends in Food Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Banana fruit is a popular crop in global agriculture production and trade.
Bananas are delicate fresh produce where external factors can highly affect their quality …

Emerging non-destructive imaging techniques for fruit damage detection: Image processing and analysis

NK Mahanti, R Pandiselvam, A Kothakota… - Trends in Food Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Fruits are vulnerable to mechanical damages and physiological disorders
caused by the static and dynamic forces acting on them during transportation and abiotic …

Mechanical damage of fresh produce in postharvest transportation: Current status and future prospects

M Al-Dairi, PB Pathare, R Al-Yahyai… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Incidence of postharvest losses in the fresh produce value chain is a worldwide
concern facing food security and sustainability. Postharvest losses can occur along the …

Recent innovations in bionanocomposites-based food packaging films–A comprehensive review

A Jayakumar, S Radoor, JT Kim, JW Rhim… - Food Packaging and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Food with natural quality and good shelf life is inevitable in our daily life and is a major
concern for the food industry. Mostly, food packaging industries are highly dependent upon …

Artificial intelligence: Implications for the agri-food sector

A Taneja, G Nair, M Joshi, S Sharma, S Sharma… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) involves the development of algorithms and computational models
that enable machines to process and analyze large amounts of data, identify patterns and …

Breaking bad news: dynamic molecular mechanisms of wound response in plants

I Vega-Muñoz, D Duran-Flores… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recognition and repair of damaged tissue are an integral part of life. The failure of cells and
tissues to appropriately respond to damage can lead to severe dysfunction and disease …

Bio-inspired robots and structures toward fostering the modernization of agriculture

M Kondoyanni, D Loukatos, C Maraveas, C Drosos… - Biomimetics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biomimetics is the interdisciplinary cooperation of biology and technology that offers
solutions to practical problems by analyzing biological systems and transferring their …

Aloe vera gel: An update on its use as a functional edible coating to preserve fruits and vegetables

I Nicolau-Lapeña, P Colàs-Medà, I Alegre… - Progress in Organic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aloe vera L. is a common succulent plant that has been used for centuries regarding their
healing properties and health benefits. Nowadays, scientific investigations on its gel have …

Machine learning-based digital twin for monitoring fruit quality evolution

TY Melesse, M Bollo, V Di Pasquale, F Centro… - Procedia Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
A technological gap to monitor fruit quality evolution in the food supply chain is causing a
huge waste of fruits. A digital twin is a promising tool to minimize fruit waste by monitoring …

Bruise measurement of fresh market apples caused by repeated impacts using a pendulum method

H Fu, W Du, J Yang, W Wang, Z Wu, Z Yang - Postharvest Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presented an approach using a pendulum method to measure bruise damage of
apples to overcome the limitation of the drop test on impact control on a specific fruit zone …