Abstract
Fruits of three apple cultivars; Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Fuji were inoculated with blue mold, Penicillium expansum, and kept under cold storage conditions for 75 days after treatment with non-chemical alternatives and the fungicide Topsin as a standard. This aimed at providing new postharvest methods for the control of blue mold incidence and severity in apple fruits. Granny Smith showed lower sensitivity to blue mold disease than Golden Delicious but Fuji was the most sensitive to the disease in relation to fruit firmness and total soluble solid content (TSS). Dipping apple fruits in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) solution at a concentration of 1 g L-1 or in hot water at 50 °C for 1 or 5 min., or exposing them to microwave for 10 s resulted in an effective control of blue mold disease under controlled cold storage conditions. Calcium nitrate at 1 or 8 g L-1 did not result in an effective control of blue mold but increased the storability of apple fruits. Therefore, a combination of two or more of the alternatives may provide a long-lasting effective control of post-harvest blue mold affecting apple fruits.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Granny Smith apples showed lower sensitivity to blue mold than Golden Delicious.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticae0 - Material
- Granny Smithe1
- Interactor
- Penicillium expansum
Penicillium expansume2pathogen - Outcome
- sensitivity to blue mold diseasee1
- Direction
- lowere1
- Comparator
- Golden Deliciouse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits of three apple cultivars”
e1“Granny Smith showed lower sensitivity to blue mold disease than Golden Delicious”
e2“Penicillium expansum”
Claim · model-written summary
Fuji apples were the most sensitive to blue mold, in relation to fruit firmness and total soluble solid content.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Material
- Fujie1
- Interactor
- Penicillium expansumPenicillium expansume2pathogen
- Outcome
- sensitive to the diseasee1
- Direction
- moste1
- Qualifier
- in relation to fruit firmness and total soluble solid content (TSS)e1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits of three apple cultivars”
e1“Fuji was the most sensitive to the disease in relation to fruit firmness and total soluble solid content (TSS)”
e2“Penicillium expansum”
Claim · model-written summary
Dipping apple fruits in a yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) solution at 1 g L-1 effectively controlled blue mold under controlled cold storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- Dipping apple fruits in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) solution at a concentration of 1 g L-1e1
- Interactor
- blue molde2pathogen
- Second interactor
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Saccharomyces cerevisiaee1biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- blue mold diseasee2
- Direction
- effective controle2
- Setting
- controlled cold storage conditionse2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Dipping apple fruits in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) solution at a concentration of 1 g L-1”
e2“resulted in an effective control of blue mold disease under controlled cold storage conditions”
Claim · model-written summary
Dipping apple fruits in hot water at 50 C for 1 or 5 min effectively controlled blue mold under controlled cold storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- hot water at 50 °C for 1 or 5 min.e1
- Interactor
- blue molde2pathogen
- Outcome
- blue mold diseasee2
- Direction
- effective controle2
- Setting
- controlled cold storage conditionse2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits of three apple cultivars”
e1“in hot water at 50 °C for 1 or 5 min.”
e2“resulted in an effective control of blue mold disease under controlled cold storage conditions”
Claim · model-written summary
Exposing apple fruits to microwave for 10 s effectively controlled blue mold under controlled cold storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- exposing them to microwave for 10 se1
- Interactor
- blue molde2pathogen
- Outcome
- blue mold diseasee2
- Direction
- effective controle2
- Setting
- controlled cold storage conditionse2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits of three apple cultivars”
e1“exposing them to microwave for 10 s”
e2“resulted in an effective control of blue mold disease under controlled cold storage conditions”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium nitrate at 1 or 8 g L-1 did not effectively control blue mold in apple fruits.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae0
- Treatment
- Calcium nitrate at 1 or 8 g L-1e1
- Interactor
- blue molde1pathogen
- Outcome
- blue molde1
- Direction
- did not result in an effective controle1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Fruits of three apple cultivars”
e1“Calcium nitrate at 1 or 8 g L-1 did not result in an effective control of blue mold”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium nitrate at 1 or 8 g L-1 increased the storability of apple fruits.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Treatment
- Calcium nitrate at 1 or 8 g L-1e1
- Outcome
- storabilitye1
- Direction
- increasede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“Calcium nitrate at 1 or 8 g L-1 did not result in an effective control of blue mold but increased the storability of apple fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors suggest that a combination of two or more of the alternatives may provide long-lasting effective control of postharvest blue mold in apple fruits.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticae1
- Outcome
- long-lasting effective control of post-harvest blue molde1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“a combination of two or more of the alternatives may provide a long-lasting effective control of post-harvest blue mold affecting apple fruits”
The same questions in other papers
calcium nitrate · quality: postharvest · Malus domestica (apple)Positive and negative results
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- positive
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