Effect of Calcium chloride and 1-MCP (Smartfresh™) postharvest treatment on ‘Golden Delicious’ apple cold storage physiological disorders

2016 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 440-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Custódia M.L. Gago ◽  
Adriana C. Guerreiro ◽  
Graça Miguel ◽  
Thomas Panagopoulos ◽  
Manuela M. da Silva ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Maria Dulce Antunes ◽  
Ana Clara Guimarães ◽  
Custódia Gago ◽  
Adriana Guerreiro ◽  
Jorge Panagopoulos ◽  
...  

The present research intents to study the evolution of the skin fatty acids and physiological disorders through cold storage in ‘Golden Delicious’ apples treated with 1-MCP and calcium. Harvested fruit were treated with calcium chloride (Ca), 1-MCP (MCP), Ca+MCP or no treatment (control) then subjected to cold storage at 0.5 ºC for 6 months. Fatty acids composition, Malondialdehyde (MDA) and the physiological disorders bitter pit (BP), superficial scald and diffuse skin browning (DSB) were measured at harvest and after storage plus 7 days shelf-life at room temperature ≈22 ºC. Palmitic acid decreased and linoleic acid increased through time, while oleic and stearic acids had few changes. Unsaturated/saturated fatty acids and MDA increased through time, despite Ca and Ca+MCP were related to lower MDA and lower BP and rotten fruit, after cold storage and shelf-life. In those treatments, the unsaturated/saturated fatty acids were higher, mainly due to higher linoleic acid and lower palmitic acids. Further research is needed to clarify the changes in membrane properties and the effect of some treatments in response to chilling injury through storage.


2015 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Custódia M.L. Gago ◽  
Adriana C. Guerreiro ◽  
Graça Miguel ◽  
Thomas Panagopoulos ◽  
Claudia Sánchez ◽  
...  

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Polese ◽  
E. F. G. Jardim ◽  
S. Navickiene ◽  
N. M. Brito ◽  
M. L. Ribeiro

A preliminary study was conducted to determine the residue levels of prochloraz in ginger samples treated with Sportak 450 CE® (prochloraz as active ingredient) under laboratory conditions and cold-storage for 15 days at 10°C and 89% RH. Sampling was carried out at 10 and 15 days after Sportak 450 CE® dip treatment (450 and 900 µg mL-1). Pesticide residues were determined by GCECD. During the study, residue levels in ginger ranged between 3.6 and 10.6 mg Kg-1 for prochloraz.


2003 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Saftner ◽  
Judith A. Abbott ◽  
William S. Conway ◽  
Cynthia L. Barden

Prestorage heat, CA storage, and pre- and poststorage treatments with the ethylene action inhibitor, 1-methylcyclopropene (MCP), were tested for their efficacy at inhibiting fungal decay and maintaining quality in `Golden Delicious' apples [Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill. Yellow Delicious Group] stored 0 to 5 months at 0 °C and 7 days at 20 °C. Before storage in air at 0 °C, preclimacteric fruit were treated with either MCP at a concentration of 1 μL·L-1 for 17 hours at 20 °C, 38 °C air for 4 days, MCP plus heat, or left untreated. Some sets of untreated fruit were stored in a controlled atmosphere of 1.5 kPa O2 and 2.5 kPa CO2 at 0 °C while other sets were removed from cold storage in air after 2.5 or 5 months, warmed to 20 °C, and treated with 1 μL·L-1 MCP for 17 hours. Prestorage MCP, heat, MCP plus heat treatments and CA storage decreased decay severity caused by wound-inoculated Penicillium expansum Link, Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr., and Colletotrichum acutatum Simmonds (teleomorph Glomerella acutata J.C. Guerber & J.C. Correll sp.nov.). Poststorage MCP treatment had no effect on decay severity. Both prestorage MCP treatment and CA storage delayed ripening as indicated by better retention of green peel color, titratable acidity, and Magness-Taylor flesh firmness, and the reduced respiration, ethylene production rates, and volatile levels that were observed upon transferring the fruit to 20 °C. The prestorage MCP treatment delayed ripening more than CA storage. Following 5 months cold storage, the prestorage MCP treatment maintained the shape of the compression force/deformation curve compared with that of fruit at harvest, as did CA storage, but at a lower force profile. The heat treatment had mixed effects on ripening: it hastened loss of green peel color and titratable acidity, but maintained firmness and delayed increases in respiration, ethylene production and volatile levels following cold storage. The MCP plus heat treatment inhibited ripening more than heat treatment alone but less than MCP treatment alone. In one of 2 years, the MCP plus heat treatment resulted in superficial injury to some of the fruit. Results indicated that MCP may provide an effective alternative to CA for reducing decay severity and maintaining quality during postharvest storage of `Golden Delicious' apples. Prestorage heat to control decay and maintain quality of apples needs further study, especially if used in combination with MCP.


2010 ◽  
pp. 457-466
Author(s):  
L.C. Neves ◽  
M.A. De Souza Prill ◽  
V.X. Da Silva ◽  
R.N.B. Mafra ◽  
S.R. Roberto

1999 ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Juan ◽  
J. Francés ◽  
E. Montesinos ◽  
F. Camps ◽  
J. Bonany

1974 ◽  
Vol 106 (9) ◽  
pp. 917-920 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. V. G. Morgan ◽  
A. P. Gaunce ◽  
C. Jong

AbstractAll codling moth larvae, Laspeyresia pomonella (L.), in 100,000 infested apples were killed by fumigation with 32 g/m3 methyl bromide for 2 h at about 17 °C followed by 31–35 days of storage at −0.5 °C. The apples were harvested into bins, fumigated, and placed in a standard cold storage room of a grower’s packinghouse as would be done under commercial conditions. Standard cold storage killed all first and second, and some third, instar larvae in nonfumigated fruit. Cursory sampling indicated that fumigation alone, without subsequent cold storage, could kill all stages. The fumigation and storage treatment did not injure Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Spartan, Jonathan, or Newtown apples.


2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (13) ◽  
pp. 5654-5661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Goffi ◽  
Luigi Zampella ◽  
Roberto Forniti ◽  
Milena Petriccione ◽  
Rinaldo Botondi

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