Abstract
`Golden Delicious' apples ( Malus domestica Borkh.) were treated after harvest with heat (air at 38 °C for 4 days or 42 °C for 1 day) or 2% CaCl 2 (w/v; applied as a dip or pressure-infiltrated) or a combination of the two and stored at 0 °C for ≤6 months. Decay caused by Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr. after inoculation to a depth of 2 mm with a conidial suspension virtually was eliminated in stored fruit heated at 38 °C, regardless of Ca treatment. Apples punctured to a depth of 0.5 mm (but not 2 mm) and inoculated with B. cinerea on removal from storage were almost completely protected from poststorage decay if they had previously been pressure-infiltrated with 2% CaCl 2 , regardless of the heat regime. Heating fruit at 42 °C and dipping in 2% CaCl 2 were only partially effective in preventing decay from either pre- or poststorage inoculations. Fruit firmness was not related to resistance to decay.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Heating stored apple fruit at 38 °C virtually eliminated Botrytis cinerea decay after inoculation, regardless of calcium treatment.
- Taxon
- Apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- heated at 38 °Ce1
- Interactor
- Botrytis cinerea
Botrytis cinereae1pathogen - Outcome
- Decaye1
- Direction
- virtually was eliminatede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Decay in Apples”
e1“Decay caused by Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr. after inoculation to a depth of 2 mm with a conidial suspension virtually was eliminated in stored fruit heated at 38 °C, regardless of Ca treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Heating fruit at 42 °C was only partially effective in preventing Botrytis cinerea decay from pre- or poststorage inoculation.
- Taxon
- ApplesMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Heating fruit at 42 °Ce2
- Interactor
- Botrytis cinereaBotrytis cinereae1pathogen
- Outcome
- decaye2
- Direction
- only partially effectivee2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Decay in Apples”
e2“Heating fruit at 42 °C and dipping in 2% CaCl 2 were only partially effective in preventing decay from either pre- or poststorage inoculations”
e1“Decay caused by Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr. after inoculation to a depth of 2 mm with a conidial suspension virtually was eliminated in stored fruit heated at 38 °C, regardless of Ca treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Dipping apple fruit in 2% CaCl2 was only partially effective in preventing Botrytis cinerea decay from pre- or poststorage inoculation.
- Taxon
- ApplesMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- dipping in 2% CaCl 2e2
- Interactor
- Botrytis cinereaBotrytis cinereae1pathogen
- Outcome
- decaye2
- Direction
- only partially effectivee2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Decay in Apples”
e2“Heating fruit at 42 °C and dipping in 2% CaCl 2 were only partially effective in preventing decay from either pre- or poststorage inoculations”
e1“Decay caused by Botrytis cinerea Pers.:Fr. after inoculation to a depth of 2 mm with a conidial suspension virtually was eliminated in stored fruit heated at 38 °C, regardless of Ca treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Apples punctured to 0.5 mm and pressure-infiltrated with 2% CaCl2 were almost completely protected from poststorage B. cinerea decay.
- Taxon
- ApplesMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- pressure-infiltrated with 2% CaCl 2e3
- Interactor
- B. cinereaBotrytis cinereae3pathogen
- Outcome
- poststorage decaye3
- Direction
- almost completely protectede3
- Qualifier
- punctured to a depth of 0.5 mm (but not 2 mm)e3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Decay in Apples”
e3“Apples punctured to a depth of 0.5 mm (but not 2 mm) and inoculated with B. cinerea on removal from storage were almost completely protected from poststorage decay if they had previously been pressure-infiltrated with 2% CaCl 2 , regardless of the heat regime”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit firmness was not related to resistance to decay in apples.
- Taxon
- ApplesMalus domesticat0
- Organ / stage
- Fruite4
- Outcome
- resistance to decaye4
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Decay in Apples”
e4“Fruit firmness was not related to resistance to decay”
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