Control of postharvest diseases in berries through edible coatings and bacterial probiotics

The world's population is growing, which requires more resources, including food. Some necessary foods, such as berries, are very perishable fresh products that suffer contamination by pathogens, generating great economic losses. Various physical and chemical strategies have been used to mitigate these losses over the years, use of pesticides. However, negative impact on environment human health has aroused interest in development other control methods. Biocontrol one innovative strategies, various biological agents can be used, bacteria probiotics. Probiotics act antagonists fungal pathogens competition for space nutrients, production secondary metabolites, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), lytic enzymes, activation plant defenses. On hand, there materials protection against seen, edible coatings, since they components, chitosan, with antimicrobial properties. In addition, probiotics conjunction elements resulting from a new strategy post-harvest diseases. This review compiles studies and/or coatings method reducing diseases, specifically, berries.