Preharvest elicitors spray improves antioxidant activity, alleviates chilling injury, and maintains quality in harvested fruit

D Gong, Y Bi, Y Li, Y Wang, D Prusky, N Alkan - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antioxidant activity is an important feature for evaluating fruit quality and tolerance to biotic
or abiotic stresses. Moreover, antioxidant activity is involved in chilling injury (CI) response …

Are edible coatings (with or without essential oil/extract) game changers for maintaining the postharvest quality of strawberries? A meta-analysis

A Taban, TM Haghighi, SS Mousavi… - Postharvest Biology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Strawberries have limited storage potential due to their sensitive structure, resulting in high
postharvest losses during transportation and storage. This meta-analysis aimed to …

Pre-harvest application of salicylic acid, abscisic acid, and methyl jasmonate conserve bioactive compounds of strawberry fruits during refrigerated storage

OS Darwish, MR Ali, E Khojah, BN Samra… - Horticulturae, 2021 - mdpi.com
The short shelf-life and loss of bioactive compounds of strawberry fruit are the most
important problems during strawberry refrigerated storage. This study was carried out to …

[HTML][HTML] Hexanal vapor induced resistance against major postharvest pathogens of banana (Musa acuminata L.)

D Dhakshinamoorthy, S Sundaresan… - The plant pathology …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hexanal, a C-6 aldehyde has been implicated to have antimicrobial properties. Hence, this
study was conducted to determine the antifungal activities of hexanal vapor against major …

Effect of hexanal loaded electrospun fiber in fruit packaging to enhance the post harvest quality of peach

S Ranjan, R Chandrasekaran, G Paliyath… - Food Packaging and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hexanal is a naturally occurring bioactive volatile compound which extends post-harvest
shelf life of fruits and vegetable by preserving the cell membrane from degradation. The aim …

Cytokinins act synergistically with heat acclimation to enhance rice thermotolerance affecting hormonal dynamics, gene expression and volatile emission

S Prerostova, J Rezek, J Jarosova, J Lacek… - Plant Physiology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heat stress is a frequent environmental constraint. Phytohormones can significantly affect
plant thermotolerance. This study compares the effects of exogenous cytokinin meta-topolin …

Mechanism of enhanced freshness formulation in optimizing antioxidant retention of gold kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) harvested at two maturity stages

SSL Mthembu, LS Magwaza, SZ Tesfay… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Kiwifruit exhibits a climacteric ripening pattern and has as an extremely perishable nature.
Considering that high perishability leads to a loss in antioxidants and overall nutritional …

Phospholipase D inhibition by hexanal is associated with calcium signal transduction events in raspberry

W El Kayal, G Paliyath, JA Sullivan… - Horticulture …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Raspberry (Rubus spp.) is an economically important crop with a restricted growing season
and very limited fruit shelf-life due to its extreme tenderness. In order to prolong its shelf life …

Evaluation of Post-harvest Losses and Shelf Life of Fresh Mango (Mangifera indica L.) in Eastern Zone of Tanzania

A Baltazari, H Mtui, L Chove, T Msogoya… - … Journal of Fruit …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Post-harvest loss negatively impacts food security, nutrition and economic stability of
farmers, exporters, traders and consumers. Experiments were conducted to assess the …

Pre-harvest application of hexanal formulations for improving post-harvest life and quality of mango (Mangifera indica L.) cv. Dashehari

K Kaur, G Kaur, JS Brar - Journal of Food Science and Technology, 2020 - Springer
The highly perishable nature of the mango fruit which leads to quick deterioration in quality
is the major limiting factor for mango growers of north India. Studies were, therefore, planned …