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Management of Post-Harvest Anthracnose: Current Approaches and Future Perspectives

open access: yesPlants, 2022
Anthracnose is a severe disease caused by Colletotrichum spp. on several crop species. Fungal infections can occur both in the field and at the post-harvest stage causing severe lesions on fruits and economic losses.
A. Ciofini   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Post-harvest losses of crops and its determinants in Ethiopia: tobit model analysis

open access: yesAgriculture & Food Security, 2022
Background Reduction of post-harvest loses of crops are crucial tasks in ensuring food and nutrition security. However, a lack of knowledge on the extent of post-harvest losses and its associated impeding factors are posing major challenges to ...
Sisay Debebe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exogenous Melatonin Treatment Induces Disease Resistance against Botrytis cinerea on Post-Harvest Grapes by Activating Defence Responses

open access: yesFoods, 2022
Botrytis cinerea seriously affects the value of post-harvest grapes. Melatonin can act as an exogenous regulator in the resistance of exogenous pathogens due to its antioxidant activity.
Zezhen Li   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variation in physico-chemical, organoleptic and microbial qualities of intermediate moisture pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) slices during storage

open access: yesFood Production, Processing and Nutrition, 2022
Pineapple is a commercial tropical fruit ranking sixth in global fruit production. Seasonal market gluts result in huge postharvest losses in all pineapple-growing nations.
Saji Gomez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Harvest LED Light Irradiation Affects Firmness, Bioactive Substances, and Amino Acid Compositions in Chili Pepper (Capsicum annum L.)

open access: yesFoods, 2022
Chili pepper is an important vegetable and spice crop with high post-harvest deteriorations in terms of commercial and nutritional quality. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are eco-friendly light sources with various light spectra that have been demonstrated
Chaochao Liu   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Application of extreme halophilic archaea as biocatalyst for chitin isolation from shrimp shell waste

open access: yesCarbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications, 2021
Halophilic archaea are known to have proteolytic activity and also has the capability to reduce ammonia from the processing discards. In this study, two proteolytic strains of halophilic archaea (Halobacterium salinarum and Halococcus dombrowskii) were ...
Bandela Dayakar   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pre- or Post-Harvest Treatment with MeJA Improves Post-Harvest Storage of Lemon Fruit by Stimulating the Antioxidant System and Alleviating Chilling Injury

open access: yesPlants, 2022
Cold storage preserves lemon fruit quality; however, it can result in significant chilling injury (CI). The effects of pre- and post-harvest methyl jasmonate (MeJA) treatments at four concentrations (0, 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 mM) on CI and sensory quality of ...
L. Liao   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effect of chemical treatment duration on physicochemical, rheological, and functional properties of colloidal chitin

open access: yesFood Hydrocolloids for Health, 2022
In this study, the physicochemical, rheological, and functional properties of colloidal chitin prepared from commercial shrimp shell α-chitin by acid hydrolysis at ambient temperature for various treatment durations were investigated.
Lokesh Sampath   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Status of household dietary diversity and associated factors among rural and urban households of Northern Uganda

open access: yesBMC Nutrition, 2023
Background In Northern Uganda, 21 and 52.4% of children under five are underweight and stunted, respectively while 32.9% of pregnant women are anemic. This demographic situation suggests among other issues, a lack of dietary diversity among households ...
Nelson Papi Kolliesuah   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Physical and thermal properties of corn cob powder blended mud cup (khulad)

open access: yesThe Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2021
Physical properties and thermal properties of corn cob powder blended mud cups were measured for assessing the feasibility of partial replacement of mud by corn cob powder as an agro biomass utilization process. Corn cob was collected from the fields of
SURYA TUSHIR   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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