Technological development of sustainable post-harvest treatment of fruits using the integration of alternative control methods without leaving toxic residues

• Grant number: 11/23432-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: August 01, 2012
• End date: July 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Plant Health
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Terao
• Grantee: Daniel Terao
• Host Institution: Embrapa Meio-Ambiente. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Brasil). Jaguariúna , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Brazil is an important consumer, producer and exporter of fresh fruit. However, much production is lost due to the high incidence of post-harvest diseases. In most of the cases the pathogens causing post-harvest diseases are present in a quiescent form in apparently healthy fruit at the time of shipment, showing the symptoms during the transport and unloading of goods at destination, resulting ina a complete container of fruit rejection by the poor quality of the product, causing large losses. This has led farmers to use pesticides in the post-harvest treatment of fruits, in a indiscriminately and empirical way, using even, in some cases, products not registered for that culture, due to the lack of products recommended for this purpose, causing the chemical contamination of the product, endangering the population health, besides leading the emergence of resistant strains of pathogens, making control more and more inefficient. Consumers are more aware and the international fruit market is increasingly restricting the Maximum Residue Limit (MRL), imposing strict monitoring, creating non-tariff barriers in the negotiation of the national fruit. The reduction or elimination of pesticides in control of postharvest diseases is therefore an economic imperative, not only an option anymore. There is therefore an urgent and a growing demand for natural technologies, clean and safe for post-harvest treatment of fruit for the control of rot, with no chemical residues. This project proposes to provide a new technological model of postharvest treatment of fruits that integrates physical control methods: heat treatment or by non-ionizing radiation with biological control in the management of postharvest diseases of mango, citros and melon. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

TERAO, DANIEL; DE CARVALHO CAMPOS, JOAO SINEZIO; BENATO, ELIANE APARECIDA; HASHIMOTO, JORGE MINORU. Alternative Strategy on Control of Postharvest Diseases of Mango (Mangifera indica L.) by Use of Low Dose of Ultraviolet-C Irradiation. FOOD ENGINEERING REVIEWS, v. 7, n. 2, SI, p. 171-175, JUN 2015. (11/23432-8)

TERAO, DANIEL; NECHET, KATIA DE LIMA; HALFELD-VIEIRA, BERNARDO DE ALMEIDA. Competitive and colony layer formation ability as key mechanisms by yeasts for the control Botryosphaeria dothidea fruit rot of mango. TROPICAL PLANT PATHOLOGY, v. 42, n. 6, p. 451-457, DEC 2017. (11/23432-8)

ELIANE APARECIDA BENATO; THATYANE CRISTINA BELLETTI; DANIEL TERAO; DANIEL ANDRADE DE SIQUEIRA FRANCO. Óleos essenciais e tratamento térmico no controle pós-colheita de bolor verde em laranja. Summa Phytopathologica, v. 44, n. 1, p. 65-71, 2018-03-00. (11/23432-8)

TERAO, DANIEL; NECHET, KATIA DE LIMA; SHIRAISHI FRIGHETTO, ROSA TOYOKO; DE ALMEIDA ANJOS, VALERIA DELGADO; BENATO, ELIANE APARECIDA; HALFELD-VIEIRA, BERNARDO DE ALMEIDA. Physical postharvest treatments in the control of stem-end rot of mango. JOURNAL OF PHYTOPATHOLOGY, v. 166, n. 7-8, p. 581-589, AUG 2018. (11/23432-8)

TERAO, DANIEL; NECHET, KATIA DE LIMA; PONTE, MAYARA SILVA; NUNES MAIA, ALINE DE HOLANDA; DE ALMEIDA ANJOS, VALERIA DELGADO; HALFELD-VIEIRA, BERNARDO DE ALMEIDA. Physical postharvest treatments combined with antagonistic yeast on the control of orange green mold. Scientia Horticulturae, v. 224, p. 317-323, OCT 20 2017. (11/23432-8)

TERAO, DANIEL; DE CARVALHO CAMPOS, JOAO SINEZIO; BENATO, ELIANE APARECIDA; HASHIMOTO, JORGE MINORU. Alternative Strategy on Control of Postharvest Diseases of Mango (Mangifera indica L.) by Use of Low Dose of Ultraviolet-C Irradiation. FOOD ENGINEERING REVIEWS, v. 7, n. 2, p. 5-pg., 2015-06-01. (11/23432-8)

TERAO, DANIEL; NECHET, KATIA DE LIMA; HALFELD-VIEIRA, BERNARDO DE ALMEIDA. Competitive and colony layer formation ability as key mechanisms by yeasts for the control Botryosphaeria dothidea fruit rot of mango. ROPICAL PLANT PATHOLOG, v. 42, n. 6, p. 7-pg., 2017-12-01. (11/23432-8)