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Harvesting and Postharvest Technology of Banana
(2020-07-24)
This chapter discusses banana harvesting indices and practices, fruit grade and standards, postharvest handling and losses, postharvest operations, and storage technologies. Harvesting indices define the best time to cut ...
Bis-naphthopyrone pigments protect filamentous ascomycetes from a wide range of predators
(2019-08-08)
It is thought that fungi protect themselves from predation by the production of compounds
that are toxic to soil-dwelling animals. Here, we show that a nontoxic pigment, the bisnaphthopyrone
aurofusarin, protects Fusarium ...
Comparison of tissue deterioration of ripening banana fruit (Musa spp., AAA group, Cavendish subgroup) under chilling and non-chilling temperatures
(2018)
BACKGROUND
In fleshy fruits, induced programmed cell death (PCD) has been observed in heat-treated tomato, and in ethylene-treated and low-temperature exposure in immature cucumber. No other fleshy fruit has been evaluated ...