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Eric-Ivan Ngoko Tchamba, Thorsten Tybussek, Peter Muranyi, Victor Francois Nguetsop, Jean Aghofack-Nguemezi and Wilfried Schwab
The dessert banana is a popular fruit worldwide, but its ripening process is greatly accelerated by high temperatures, which eventually leads to an unpleasant taste and the appearance of spots on the skin of the fruits. To slow down the ripening of banan...
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María Gutiérrez-Pozo, Vicente Serna-Escolano, Marina Giménez-Berenguer, Maria J. Giménez and Pedro J. Zapata
Lemon postharvest losses are mainly due to the presence of fungal diseases. Current postharvest decay strategies rely on synthetic chemical fungicides; however, consumers are demanding that fruit is free of any chemical residue. The use of new natural al...
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Thiago Guilherme Péra, Fernando Vinícius da Rocha and José Vicente Caixeta Filho
Reducing food losses presents an opportunity to enhance food security, minimize waste, and improve profitability within the production sector. Creating awareness among various stakeholders in the value chain about the significance of reducing postharvest...
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Hory Chikez, Dirk Maier, Sigurdur Olafsson and Steve Sonka
Several studies have identified a host of factors to be considered when attempting to reduce food postharvest loss (PHL). However, very few studies have ranked those factors by their importance in driving PHL. This study used the Random Forest model to r...
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Fátima Badiche-El Hilali, Juan Miguel Valverde, Huertas Díaz-Mula, María Serrano, Daniel Valero and Salvador Castillo
?-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a naturally occurring plant compound that acts as a signalling agent during stress conditions, mainly due to unstable events, although sometimes the endogenous content does not reach sufficient levels. Thus, the main aim of ...
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Alfadhl Y. Khaled, Nader Ekramirad, Kevin D. Donohue, Raul T. Villanueva and Akinbode A. Adedeji
The demand for high-quality apples remains strong throughout the year, as they are one of the top three most popular fruits globally. However, the apple industry faces challenges in monitoring and managing postharvest losses due to invasive pests during ...
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Nader Ekramirad, Alfadhl Y. Khaled, Kevin D. Donohue, Raul T. Villanueva and Akinbode A. Adedeji
Codling moth (CM) is a major apple pest. Current manual method of detection is not very effective. The development of nondestructive monitoring and detection methods has the potential to reduce postharvest losses from CM infestation. Previous work from o...
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Mariana Lucia Rojas-Rodríguez, Joaquín Guillermo Ramírez-Gil, Luis Felipe González-Concha and Helber Enrique Balaguera-López
The fruit agribusiness sector is one of the most dynamic in Colombia. Within this sector, avocado and mango are of great importance, both in terms of area planted and volume exported. Increasing the productivity, quality, and postharvest life of these fr...
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Daisy Delsile Dlamini, Jethro Zuwarimwe, Joseph Francis and Godwin R. A. Mchau
The transition from subsistence to commercial production poses uncertainty and risks that require putting in place adaptive systems. Such systems are imperative for agricultural production where weather and food markets are always changing. Disregarding ...
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Polina Galitskaya, Kamalya Karamova, Liliya Biktasheva, Gulnaz Galieva, Alexander Gordeev and Svetlana Selivanovskaya
Because of significant yield losses caused by fungal pathogens, new efficient and environmentally safe methods of pest control are needed, and amphiphilic compounds (biosurfactants) produced by many microbes are considered a good alternative. In the pres...
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