{"title":"Postharvest Diseases","authors":"N. Ravichandra","doi":"10.1201/9781003246084-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003246084-2","url":null,"abstract":"1 Postharvest Diseases Jerry Bartz, postharvest pathologist Postharvest Diseases • Plant pathology= diseases of plants • Plant disease = continuous malfunction caused by infection by a parasitic microbe. • Continuous malfunction and infection by a microbe differentiate postharvest diseases from defects related to physical injuries, growth abnormalities, injuries caused by harmful environments such as chilling, hypoxia, ethylene insensitivity, sun exposure, etc. • Postharvest diseases are those that appear and develop after harvest.","PeriodicalId":157461,"journal":{"name":"Postharvest Plant Pathology","volume":"14 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123450896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}