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Mitigation of Chilling Injury Symptoms and Extending the Storage Life of Cantaloupes by Some Postharvest Applications

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Last updated: 30 Dec 2024

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Horticulture

Abstract

This study was conducted on cantaloupe fruits (cv. Primal Galia type) during two consecutive seasons in 2020 and 2021 to investigate the impact of postharvest treatments with hot water, spermine, putrescine, salicylic acid, and potassium silicate on decreasing chilling injury and preserving fruit quality in comparison to a control treatment during cold 
storage at 1±0.5ºC for twenty days in addition to two days at 15ºC (shelf life). The findings showed that all postharvest treatments outperformed the control treatment in decreasing weight loss, decay, chilling injury, firmness loss, change of color, and electrolyte leakage of fruits and maintaining ascorbic acid, total phenolics, total sugars, antioxidant activity, and overall appearance of fruits. Furthermore, cantaloupe fruits dipped in spermine or salicylic acid materials were effective in not showing any chilling injury symptoms throughout cold storage periods in addition to shelf life. Putrescine and hot water treatments delayed the beginning of chilling injury symptoms and recorded a low score of symptoms at the end of cold storage duration in addition to shelf life. However, spermine and salicylic acid treatments were the most efficient in preserving overall quality attributes and giving fruits a good overall appearance without any chilling injury symptoms or decay after twenty days of storage at 1±0.5ºC in addition to two days at 15ºC.

DOI

10.21608/sjas.2023.221749.1318

Keywords

cantaloupe, Chilling injury, hot water, Polyamines, Salicylic acid, potassium silicate, storability

Authors

First Name

Noura

Last Name

Gad El-Rab

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Postharvest and Handling of Vegetable Crops Research Department, Horticulture Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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alinora362@yahoo.com

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First Name

Mohsen

Last Name

Saad

MiddleName

EL-Sayed Mohamed

Affiliation

ostharvest and Handling of Vegetable Crops Research Department, Horticulture Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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Volume

5

Article Issue

3

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43273

Issue Date

2023-09-01

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2023-07-08

Publish Date

2023-09-01

Page Start

52

Page End

72

Print ISSN

2535-1796

Online ISSN

2535-180X

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916

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Publication Title

Scientific Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://sjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Mitigation of Chilling Injury Symptoms and Extending the Storage Life of Cantaloupes by Some Postharvest Applications

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30 Dec 2024