Premium
The control of postharvest decay in table grapes using acetaldehyde vapours
Author(s) -
AVISSAR ILANA,
PESIS EDNA
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1991.tb06101.x
Subject(s) - postharvest , botrytis cinerea , vapours , biology , alternaria alternata , horticulture , acetaldehyde , aspergillus niger , botany , monilinia fructicola , inoculation , food science , biochemistry , neuroscience , ethanol
Summary Grapes ( Vitis vinifera L. cv. ‘Sultanina’) harvested at the end of the 1985–1988 seasons, received postharvest application of acetaldehyde (AA) vapours for 24–40 h. Treatment with AA vapour at 20 °C or 0 °C reduced significantly the decay caused by several fungi: Botrytis cinerea, Rhizopus stolonifer, Aspergillus niger and Alternaria alternata . In grapes treated with 0.5% AA for 24 h, no R. stolonifer was found after 8 days of storage at 20 °C. Treatment with 0.25% AA vapour for 40 h of grapes cv. ‘Perlette’ inoculated with R. stolonifer reduced the decay by 89%.