Botrytis cinerea, a causal agent of gray mold disease, is one the most destructive fungal pathogens that leads to substantial global economic crop losses, especially for tomato plants. The present study aims investigate inhibitory effect two microbial culture filtrates (BCA filtrate alone and combined with salicylic acid) Trichoderma longibrachiatum Pseudomonas sp. against phytopathogenic fungu...

Tomatoes are one of the most prominent vegetables globally, with significant cultural and economic relevance in various nations, including Brazil. The term ‘safe food’ is becoming more popular as consumer preferences supply chain dynamics become evolved these processes. In light issues, use safety quality management methods for fruits have increased dramatically, traceability being solutions wo...

Relevance. The interest of vegetable producers in small-fruited tomato hybrids has been increasing recent years. This is due to the high commercial qualities fruits that do not crack, contain 3 times more sugars than large-fruited tomatoes, and their range use for canning salads also expanded. Goal: identify effective options biologically active substances conditions extended turnover winter gr...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a combination of a 1% calcium chloride dip with low dose irradiation on microbial populations, and biochemical and physical properties, of fresh diced tomatoes during a two-week storage period. Vine tomatoes at the light-red stage (trial 1) and Celebrity tomatoes at the table ripe stage (trial 2) were diced, dipped in 1% CaCl(2), and irra...

BACKGROUND: The impact of organic and conventional production systems on quality and nutritional parameters of fruits and vegetables is still under discussion. The objective of this study is to determine whether the production system has a significant effect on the quality and nutritional content of one variety of processing tomatoes grown on a commercial scale by comparing three different grow...

In the current study, morphological traits and molecular markers were used to assess the genetic diversity of 29 cultivated tomatoes, 14 wild tomatoes and seven introgression lines. The three components of the principal component analysis (PCA) explained 78.54% of the total morphological variation in the 50 tomato genotypes assessed. Based on these morphological traits, a three-dimensional PCA ...

Sequence variation was sampled in cultivated and related wild forms of tomato at fw2.2--a fruit weight QTL key to the evolution of domesticated tomatoes. Variation at fw2.2 was contrasted with variation at four other loci not involved in fruit weight determination. Several conclusions could be reached: (1) Fruit weight variation attributable to fw2.2 is not caused by variation in the FW2.2 prot...

BACKGROUND Foodborne outbreaks of Shigella infection are uncommon and tomatoes are an unusual vehicle. We describe a large, multiple-restaurant outbreak of Shigella flexneri serotype 2a infection that was associated with tomatoes. METHODS We conducted nationwide surveillance and a case-control study, collected fecal specimens for culture, and measured the survival of the outbreak strain of S....

Fresh tomatoes higher in lycopene content than standard varieties have recently been designed. We hypothesized that consumption of fresh, high lycopene tomatoes (HEC) for 3-weeks, as compared to standard fresh tomatoes, (LEC) would result in significant increases in serum lycopene and reductions in oxidative stress and inflammation. Forty healthy adult men (37.5%) and women (62.5%) age 55.3±4.7...