Advances in the Strategic Approaches of Pre- and Post-Harvest Treatment Technologies for Peach Fruits (Prunus persica)

Peach (Prunus persica) is one of the representative climacteric fruits susceptible to environmental stresses, including microbial contamination. This article analyzed major findings from literature on pre- and post-harvest technologies for maintaining quality peach fruit figure out strengths limitations each treatment strategy. The key implication studies pre-harvest agents directly applied surface or supplemented as fertilizer was application a mixture regarding substances with diverse working mechanisms prevent excessive use agent. common objectives previous research treatments were not only improvement in harvested but also storability during long-term refrigeration due short lifespan peaches. In case treatments, efficacy considerably affected by various determinant factors (e.g., cultivar fruit, sort technologies, storage environments), thus operating conditions optimized described this article. Whereas, although combined categorized into principles (physical, chemical, biological approaches) has been adopted achieve synergistic effect, undesirable antagonistic effects (i.e., inhibition efficacies expectable singular treatments) reported highlight importance exploring adequate conditions.