Disinfection of fresh fruit and vegetables after harvest is an essential first step of postharvest
handling. The minimal requirement from disinfection procedures is to maintain commodities …

During fruit ripening on the tree and after harvest some essential processes involve the
production of the anaerobic metabolites, acetaldehyde (AA) and ethanol. These processes …

More than one third of harvested fruit and vegetables are lost and do not reach the
customers mainly due to postharvest decay. During the last decade, several postharvest …

Significant postharvest losses occur during the supply chain of fresh produce. Postharvest
decay is one of the main factors that determines losses and compromises the quality of fruit …

Blueberry fruit were treated with 500 μL L− 1 ethanol for 18 h and then stored at 0±0.5° C
with 90% relative humidity (RH) for 40 d. The firmness, contents of cell wall polysaccharides …

Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is a plant growth regulator belonging to the jasmonate family. It
plays an important role as a possible airborne signaling molecule mediating intra-and inter …

Botrytis is regarded as the most important post-harvest fungal pathogen that causes
significant losses in fresh fruits, vegetables and ornamentals. Its ability to attack a wide …

Boron, an essential plant micronutrient, was effective in the form of potassium tetraborate for
control of postharvest gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea on table grapes stored at room …

Complete inhibition of the germination of spores of Botrytis cinerea occurred after a 10s
exposure to 30% ethanol or more at 24° C. Mortality of spores in heated 10% ethanol was …

The effects of coatings containing shrimp chitosan and the essential oil from Mentha piperita
L.(MPEO) or M. villosa Huds (MVEO) to control common mold infections in table grape cv …