Abstract
Control of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables by biocontrol agents applied under commercial conditions are sometimes less satisfactory than protection exerted by synthetic fungicides. We report some recent research aimed at enhancing and stabilizing the activity of selected yeasts by combining with various adjuvants. Several food-grade additives and antioxidants consistently enhanced the antagonistic activity of the biocontrol yeasts against postharvest fungal pathogens in small-scale experiments. Moreover, the activity of antagonists was significantly improved by combining with a low dose of synthetic fungicides on apples in semi-commercial conditions. The potential application of selected compounds and strategies for developing new formulations of yeast-based biofungicides are discussed.
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Claims 2
Claim · model-written summary
Food-grade additives and antioxidants consistently enhanced the antagonistic activity of biocontrol yeasts against postharvest fungal pathogens in small-scale experiments.
- Taxon
- fruits and vegetablese0
- Treatment
- food-grade additives and antioxidantse1
- Interactor
- postharvest fungal pathogense1pathogen
- Second interactor
- biocontrol yeastse1biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- antagonistic activitye1
- Direction
- enhancede1
- Setting
- small-scale experimentse1
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Verbatim
e0“Control of postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables by biocontrol agents”
e1“Several food-grade additives and antioxidants consistently enhanced the antagonistic activity of the biocontrol yeasts against postharvest fungal pathogens in small-scale experiments”
Claim · model-written summary
Combining antagonists with a low dose of synthetic fungicides significantly improved their activity on apples under semi-commercial conditions.
- Taxon
- apples
Malus domesticae2 - Treatment
- combining with a low dose of synthetic fungicidese2
- Interactor
- antagonistse2biocontrol_agent
- Outcome
- activity of antagonistse2
- Direction
- improvede2
- Setting
- semi-commercial conditionse2
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Verbatim
e2“the activity of antagonists was significantly improved by combining with a low dose of synthetic fungicides on apples in semi-commercial conditions”
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