Elhadi M. Yahia, Jorge Fonseca, Peter Toivonen, Chris Watkins, Noam Alkan, Anirudh Kumar, K. Wang, A. K. Handa, A. K. Mattoo

Instant Insights: Fruit losses and waste (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This specially curated collection features five reviews of current and key research on fruit losses and waste.

The first chapter reviews the magnitude of losses and waste of fruit and vegetables as well as key issues in estimating losses. It provides a detailed assessment of the main causes of losses and waste together with strategies for their prevention.

The second chapter assesses the adoption of new, non-destructive technologies as a way of measuring harvest maturity and improving sorting operations to minimise the risk of product loss and waste.

The third chapter outlines the importance of harvest management of apples and considers the importance of various factors associated with fruit physiology, maturation and ripening to reduce losses.

The fourth chapter reviews existing research in the preservation of fruit quality and reduction of post-harvest damage and loss by adopting suitable technologies and knowledge during post-harvest operation, storage management, transportation and marketing of mango fruit.

The final chapter explores the advantages and disadvantages of cultivating ripening-impaired tomato mutants. It describes how controlling tomato diseases in both pre- and postharvest operations can help avoid fruit losses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786769749
• Artikelnr.: 60803118

Autorenporträt

Contributions by: Elhadi M. Yahia, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico; and Jorge M. Fonseca, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy; Peter M. A. Toivonen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada; Christopher B. Watkins, Cornell University, USA; Noam Alkan, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Volcani Center, Israel; and Anirudh Kumar, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Volcani Center, Israel and Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), India; K. Wang and A. K. Handa, Purdue University, USA; and A. K. Mattoo, USDA-ARS, USA