TY  - SER
AU  - Khedr ,E.H.
AU  - Ali ,M.R.
TI  - Safe postharvest treatments for maintaining olinda orange fruits quality during marketing life
KW  - Citrus
KW  - Storage
KW  - Chitosan.
KW  - Gum arabic
KW  - Beeswax
N1  - Includes bibliographic reference
N2  - Extending postharvest fruit life demand cold storage period prolongation with reasonable
marketing life. In this scope, quality of Olinda orange was determined in response to arabic gum, bee
wax, paraffin oil and chitosan coatings during simulated marketing life at 20°C for 12 days after cold
storage at 5°C and 90-95% relative humidity for 90 days. All applied coatings had desirable effects on
fruit quality compared with the control, where the best treatment was chitosan at 1 and 2% that were
effective in maintaining ascorbic acid content compared to the uncoated ones. Chitosan coating at 2%
attained the lowest significant weight loss and decay percentages. Also, it delayed changes associated
with fruit aging such as colour changes, softening and pectin the methylesterase activity, in addition to
valuable means of respiration rate compared to the uncoated ones. Coatings are easily applied tools
that could be suitable for extending Olinda orange postharvest marketing life
UR  - http://nile.enal.sci.eg/EALE/2017/BFACU/6817/4/425.pdf
ER  -