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Effects of different postharvest techniques on quality management and shelf life of ‘Kinnow’ mandarin fruit

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In present era, consumers mostly demand for fungicide or pesticide free fruit as their use may be harmful for human health as well as they degrade bioactive juice components and antioxidant profile of fruit which are beneficial to human health. Being non-climacteric fruit, mandarins have lower shelf life at ambient temperature, therefore; many postharvest treatments have been introduced to increase the shelf life along with cold storage. The present study was planned to compare different (inexpensive and effective) non-chemical techniques at their safe level which maintained the nutritional profile of fruit. Results revealed that locally prepared Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose (HPMC) coating and application of 4 mM salicylic acid (SA) performed best to control the disease incidence in comparison of gamma radiation (800 Gy) during 90 days of storage. SA application had better performance to maintain total phenolic contents, antioxidant activity (%) and antioxidant enzymatic activities for longer time period.

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Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan, for providing financial assistance during her PhD research work. She is also thankful to PARAS (Pakistan Radiation Services) foods, Lahore for providing facilities of gamma radiation treatments. The authors are also thankful to Dr. Naseem Akhtar (Radiologist NIAB) for helping to plan this project, Mr. Muhammad Azhar (Director Postharvest Research Centre AARI, Faisalabad) for providing the cold storage facilities and Mr. Rahim Khan for his guideline and facilitating during research work. The authors also confirm that there are no known conflicts of interest associated with this publication.

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    Sakeena Tul-Ain Haider, Muhammad Akbar Anjum & Safina Naz

  2. Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Saeed Ahmad & Mehwish Liaqat

  3. The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Bushra Saddiq

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The present research work is conducted to maintain the shelf life of Citrus fruits by the application of different non-chemical treatments. Application of chemicals and fungicides is not only expensive but also dangerous for human health and consumption. Therefore; it is needed to introduce such treatments which can be helpful to increase storage life of fruits with easy application at farmer level.

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Haider, S.TA., Ahmad, S., Anjum, M.A. et al. Effects of different postharvest techniques on quality management and shelf life of ‘Kinnow’ mandarin fruit. Food Measure 15, 2549–2561 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-021-00820-1

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