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Pre-Storage Fruit Injury Accelerates Apple Deterioration During Cold Storage and Shelf Life: Importance of Sorting and Mitigation by Sustainable Postharvest Treatments
2026-06-16
Abstract excerpt
Pre-storage fruit injuries are a major yet often underestimated cause of postharvest losses in apples, particularly during prolonged cold storage. This study evaluated the impact of minor pre-storage injuries on fruit deterioration and assessed the effectiveness of ammonium bicarbonate (2%) and clove bud essential oil (0.2%) as eco-friendly postharvest treatments compared with the fungicide fludioxonil (Scholar)....
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- Literature Corpus work
- a43d74a3-2e28-5ba1-b1cb-f0fd71d5455e
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202606.1215.v1
