Physical Crop Postharvest Storage and Protection Methods

Postharvest physiology and storage of ber

Purpose of review: This article reviews studies conducted on maturity indices, climacteric behaviour, artificial ripening, and preand postharvest treatments, which affect the shelf-life, packaging, storage and postharvest pathology of ber fruits. Findings: Ber fruits show climacteric respiration behaviour. Various maturity indices including colour, total soluble solids, harvesting date, days fr...

Postharvest Storage Procedures and Oxidative Stress

Oxidative stress in fruits and vegetables can be detected either directly (as accumulations in reactive oxygen species, increases in lipid peroxidation products, enhanced membrane leakage, or accumulation of brown pigments) or indirectly (as changes in antioxidant components or antioxidant enzyme systems). How all of these measures of oxidative stress relate to each other and how they are assoc...

Postharvest Circadian Entrainment Enhances Crop Pest Resistance and Phytochemical Cycling

The modular design of plants enables individual plant organs to manifest autonomous functions and continue aspects of metabolism, such as respiration, even after separation from the parent plant. Therefore, we hypothesized that harvested vegetables and fruits may retain capacity to perceive and respond to external stimuli. For example, the fitness advantage of plant circadian clock function is ...

DNA Sequencing and Crop Protection

Optimal Storage by Crop Producers

When post-harvest marketing strategies are restricted by disallowing speculative purchases, sales out of storage becomes an irreversible decision and the dynamic marketing problem becomes analogous to the optimal exercise of a nancial option. The optimal marketing strategy is to hold at low prices and to sell at high prices with a cutoo price function marking the boundary between low and high p...