Abstract
UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12) aims to reduce food losses in production and postharvest stages within supply chains. Identifying and addressing contributors to such losses is crucial to their reduction and to overall supply chain sustainability. Internal disorders (IDs) often contribute to postharvest losses and waste of highly perishable fruits like mangoes. Understanding and addressing influencers of susceptibility is limited but essential. Factors potentially associated with the expression of IDs in ‘B74’ mango commercial supply chains were investigated. Over three fruiting seasons (2020/21, 2021/22, and 2022/23), 43 export supply chains in Australia were monitored from two major production regions, the Northern Territory and North Queensland. Prior to export, the mangoes were subject to a mandatory phytosanitary vapor heat treatment (VHT) in which they were heated with saturated water vapor to a core temperature 46 °C maintained for 15 min and were then assessed for IDs at the end of their shelf life. The predominant IDs observed in the ‘B74’ fruit were flesh cavity with white patches (FCWP) and flesh browning (FB). VHT-induced FCWP, but not FB. Harvest maturity was identified as a predisposing factor. FB was generally positively correlated and FCWP was typically negatively correlated with fruit maturity at harvest. Relatively more-mature fruit was prone to FB irrespective of VHT, and relatively less-mature fruit was susceptible to FCWP post-VHT. Therefore, selective harvesting and/or sorting for optimum maturity after harvest can be practiced minimizing the incidence and severity of these two IDs in ‘B74’ fruit. Thus, dry matter (DM) sorting can contribute to postharvest loss reduction and the general sustainability of mango supply chains.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Flesh cavity with white patches and flesh browning were predominant disorders in B74 mango.
- Taxon
- Mango
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Mangifera indicat0 - Material
- B74e0
- Outcome
- flesh cavity with white patches (FCWP) and flesh browning (FB)e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“The predominant IDs observed in the ‘B74’ fruit were flesh cavity with white patches (FCWP) and flesh browning (FB)”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
Vapor heat treatment induced flesh cavity with white patches.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- VHTe0
- Outcome
- FCWPe0
- Direction
- inducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“VHT-induced FCWP, but not FB”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
Vapor heat treatment did not induce flesh browning.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Treatment
- VHTe0
- Outcome
- FBe0
- Direction
- note0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“VHT-induced FCWP, but not FB”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
Flesh browning correlated positively with maturity at harvest.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Organ / stage
- fruit maturity at harveste0
- Outcome
- FBe0
- Direction
- positively correlatede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“FB was generally positively correlated and FCWP was typically negatively correlated with fruit maturity at harvest”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
Flesh cavity with white patches correlated negatively with maturity at harvest.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Organ / stage
- fruit maturity at harveste0
- Outcome
- FCWPe0
- Direction
- negatively correlatede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“FB was generally positively correlated and FCWP was typically negatively correlated with fruit maturity at harvest”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
Relatively mature fruit was prone to flesh browning regardless of vapor heat treatment.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Organ / stage
- Relatively more-mature fruite0
- Outcome
- FBe0
- Direction
- pronee0
- Qualifier
- irrespective of VHTe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Relatively more-mature fruit was prone to FB irrespective of VHT”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
Less mature fruit was susceptible to flesh cavity after vapor heat treatment.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Organ / stage
- relatively less-mature fruite0
- Treatment
- post-VHTe0
- Outcome
- FCWPe0
- Direction
- susceptiblee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“relatively less-mature fruit was susceptible to FCWP post-VHT”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend selective harvesting or sorting for optimum maturity to minimize the two disorders.
- Taxon
- MangoMangifera indicat0
- Material
- B74e0
- Outcome
- selective harvesting and/or sorting for optimum maturity after harveste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“selective harvesting and/or sorting for optimum maturity after harvest can be practiced minimizing the incidence and severity of these two IDs in ‘B74’ fruit”
t0“Mango Cv.”
Claim · model-written summary
Dry matter sorting may reduce mango postharvest loss.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae0
- Outcome
- dry matter (DM) sortinge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“dry matter (DM) sorting can contribute to postharvest loss reduction and the general sustainability of mango supply chains”
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