Physiochemical properties, fruit pathology and shelf life of bananas under pre-harvest bunch spray, post-harvest hand dipping and storage period

IF 3.9 2区农林科学 Q1 HORTICULTURE

Scientia Horticulturae Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.scienta.2025.113977

Swosti Debapriya Behera , Manoranjan Neog , Stuti Debapriya Behera , Basudev Behera , Sanat Kumar Dwibedi , Alok Nandi , Nishita Pathak

{"title":"Physiochemical properties, fruit pathology and shelf life of bananas under pre-harvest bunch spray, post-harvest hand dipping and storage period","authors":"Swosti Debapriya Behera , Manoranjan Neog , Stuti Debapriya Behera , Basudev Behera , Sanat Kumar Dwibedi , Alok Nandi , Nishita Pathak","doi":"10.1016/j.scienta.2025.113977","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Losses during the transport and marketing of banana fruits account for 25-50 %. An experiment was conducted at Jorhat, India in 2017-18 and 2018-19 to study the effects of treatments on the shelf life of bananas. The experiment comprising two bunch spray (pre-harvest) treatments, viz. B1-Calcium chloride 2 % twice and B2: Tracel 2 % twice, six solutions for hand dipping (post-harvest), viz. H1: 1 % chitosan, H2: 30 ppm benzyl adenine, H3: 2 % calcium chloride, H4: 1 % garlic extract, H5: 150 ppm gibberellic acid and H6: Control (Distilled water) and four storage periods(days), viz., S1: 3, S2: 6, S3: 9 and S4: 12 was tried in factorial completely randomized design with three replications. Lower values of physiological loss in fruit weight (PLFW), moisture content (MC), pulp: peel ratio, total soluble solids (TSS), pH and pedicel and peel Pectin methyl esterase (PME) specific activity and higher values of titratable acidity (TTA) and ascorbic acid (AsA) content were recorded under pre-harvest bunch spray of Tracel than CaCl2 and hand dipping in various solutions than hand dipping in distilled water. At 12th day of storage, B2 H5 and B1 H5 were the promising treatments with the minimum PLFW, MC, TSS, and pH and the maximum TTA. The treatment B2 H5 recorded the maximum fruit shelf life (15 days) under ambient conditions. Fruit shelf life registered significant and positive correlation with TTA and AsA. The results would help in the development of a suitable strategy to prevent post-harvest losses and boost the economy of banana farmers and traders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":21679,"journal":{"name":"Scientia Horticulturae","volume":"341 ","pages":"Article 113977"},"PeriodicalIF":3.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scientia Horticulturae","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423825000287","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HORTICULTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Losses during the transport and marketing of banana fruits account for 25-50 %. An experiment was conducted at Jorhat, India in 2017-18 and 2018-19 to study the effects of treatments on the shelf life of bananas. The experiment comprising two bunch spray (pre-harvest) treatments, viz. B₁-Calcium chloride 2 % twice and B₂: Tracel 2 % twice, six solutions for hand dipping (post-harvest), viz. H₁: 1 % chitosan, H₂: 30 ppm benzyl adenine, H₃: 2 % calcium chloride, H₄: 1 % garlic extract, H₅: 150 ppm gibberellic acid and H₆: Control (Distilled water) and four storage periods(days), viz., S₁: 3, S₂: 6, S₃: 9 and S₄: 12 was tried in factorial completely randomized design with three replications. Lower values of physiological loss in fruit weight (PLFW), moisture content (MC), pulp: peel ratio, total soluble solids (TSS), pH and pedicel and peel Pectin methyl esterase (PME) specific activity and higher values of titratable acidity (TTA) and ascorbic acid (AsA) content were recorded under pre-harvest bunch spray of Tracel than CaCl₂ and hand dipping in various solutions than hand dipping in distilled water. At 12^th day of storage, B₂ H₅ and B₁ H₅ were the promising treatments with the minimum PLFW, MC, TSS, and pH and the maximum TTA. The treatment B₂ H₅ recorded the maximum fruit shelf life (15 days) under ambient conditions. Fruit shelf life registered significant and positive correlation with TTA and AsA. The results would help in the development of a suitable strategy to prevent post-harvest losses and boost the economy of banana farmers and traders.

Abstract Image

查看原文本刊更多论文

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Scientia Horticulturae 农林科学-园艺

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

4.70%

发文量

796

审稿时长

47 days

期刊介绍： Scientia Horticulturae is an international journal publishing research related to horticultural crops. Articles in the journal deal with open or protected production of vegetables, fruits, edible fungi and ornamentals under temperate, subtropical and tropical conditions. Papers in related areas (biochemistry, micropropagation, soil science, plant breeding, plant physiology, phytopathology, etc.) are considered, if they contain information of direct significance to horticulture. Papers on the technical aspects of horticulture (engineering, crop processing, storage, transport etc.) are accepted for publication only if they relate directly to the living product. In the case of plantation crops, those yielding a product that may be used fresh (e.g. tropical vegetables, citrus, bananas, and other fruits) will be considered, while those papers describing the processing of the product (e.g. rubber, tobacco, and quinine) will not. The scope of the journal includes all horticultural crops but does not include speciality crops such as, medicinal crops or forestry crops, such as bamboo. Basic molecular studies without any direct application in horticulture will not be considered for this journal.