Advances in postharvest management of horticultural produce (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Watkins, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Much is talked about food loss and waste but little is being done given the scale of the problem. Through experts in the field, this book provides insights into the management practices and latest technologies available. A great effort and many congratulations."
Prof Leon A. Terry, Cranfield University, UK

This book reviews key advances in preservation techniques for fresh fruit and vegetables. Part 1 summarises developments and improvements in preservation technologies such as cooling, controlled atmosphere storage, modified atmosphere and active packaging, barrier coatings and post-harvest ethylene management.

The focus of Part 2 is on post-harvest safety management and disinfection. Chapters cover current research on mechanisms of pathogen contamination of fresh produce, advances in rapid pathogen detection techniques as well as improvements in sanitising regimes and disinfection techniques using heat, irradiation and plasma, ozone and natural antimicrobials.

The final part of the book surveys advances in monitoring postharvest quality of fresh produce, automated sorting and packing and smart distribution systems to maintain the quality of horticultural produce.

Professor Chris Watkins is Herman H. Cohn Professor of Horticulture and Associate Dean at Cornell University and Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension. An internationally-renowned expert on postharvest physiology, and a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He is the current Chair of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) Division for Postharvest and Quality Assurance, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Postharvest Biology and Technology. With its distinguished editor and international range of expert authors, this will be a standard reference on postharvest management of fresh produce.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786762900
• Artikelnr.: 58516643