The yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima is frequently isolated from environmental samples and has often been reported to exhibit strong antagonistic activity against plant pathogens. In order assess the potential of this species for its development into a protection product, survival during formulation storage were quantified field efficacy was assessed over period five years. Freeze dried liquid M...

The occurrence of postharvest kiwifruit rot has caused great economic losses in major kiwifruit-producing countries. Several pathogens are involved rot, notably <i>Botryosphaeria dothidea</i>, and <i>Diaporthe</i> species. In this study, a recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) assay was developed for the rapid sensitive detection responsible posing significant threa...

Prestorage heat treatment appears to be a promising method of postharvest control of decay. Heat treatments against pathogens may be applied to fresh harvested commodities by hot water dips, by vapour heat, by hot dry air or by a very short hot water rinse and brushing. Heat treatments have a direct effect slowing germ tube elongation or of inactivating or outright killing germinating spores, t...

P. expansum is regarded as one of the most important postharvest rots of apple fruit and is also of great concern to fruit processing industries. Elucidating the pathogenicity mechanism of this pathogen is of utmost importance for the development of effective and safe management strategies. Although, many studies on modification of the host environment by the pathogen were done, its interaction...

Penicillium is a large genus of common molds with over 400 described species; however, identification of individual species is difficult, including for those species that cause postharvest rots. In this study, blue rot fungi from stored apples and pears were isolated from a variety of hosts, locations, and years. Based on morphological and cultural characteristics and partial amplification of t...

This study was carried out during two successive seasons of 2018 and 2019 on cherry tomato F1 hybrid Cherubino which harvested at turning stage (25% red colour) from a private Farm El Salhia Gadeda District, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. The aim this work to the effect dipping fruits in solutions some edible materials, (arabic gum, cellulose, pectin, xanthan) maintaining quality storability posth...

Purpose: The availability of fresh Citrus fruits is limited by their susceptibility to invasion microbial pathogens which leads cause serious postharvest losses. present study was carried out isolate and morphologically identify fungal associations from selected fruit species (C. sinensis, C. limon, crenatifolia medica) confirm identity molecular characterization. Research method: Postharvest w...

Drosophila buzzatii is confined to reproducing in a well defined patchy environment consisting of rotting cactus cladodes which are ephemeral, permitting at most three generations. Flies emerging from such rots were used to estimate the additive genetic variance within rots and the genetic variance between rots for body size and also were electrophoresed to determine their genotypes at six poly...