Application of ginger extracts as natural fungicid in nanoestrutured coatings on papaya fruit postharvest

• Grant number: 16/23419-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): June 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): July 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agricultural Engineering - Process Engineering of Agricultural Products
• Acordo de Cooperação: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Marcos David Ferreira
• Grantee: Marcela Miranda
• Host Institution: Embrapa Instrumentação Agropecuária. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Brasil). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/10657-0 - Effect of ginger essential oil in nano-emulsion coatings on papaya: evaluation of aroma volatiles, fruit pathogens and post-harvest fruit decay, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Brazil is a great producer of fruits and vegetables, but post-harvest losses still are considerable. The application of protective coatings on fruits is an alternative technology of low cost and easy use, attributing barrier to the loss of humidity, gases and antimicrobial action. Carnauba wax is extensively used in the food and coating industry, however few studies exist with nanostructured coatings of that material. In previous study (master degree of the candidate) was possible the synthesis and characterization of carnauba wax nanoemulsion, observing potential use on fruits coating due to the properties of barrier to moisture; intense brightness and compliance with the brasilian´s resolution -RDC ANVISA nº 8 / 2013. That resolution provides on the food additives allowed on the surface treatment of fresh fruits. Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) is a hydrophilic polysaccharide from cellulose and it used for coatings due to its filmogenic characteristic, moisture keeping and oxygen barrier. Studies indicate the use of extracts of ginger rhizome (Zingiber officinale) to reduction microorganisms in food, with potential use that as an active agent in inert coatings. Thus, join characteristics and properties of these materials can increased coating action, improving physical, chemical, mechanical and antimicrobial properties. The aim of that work is to evaluate the activity of extracts obtained from ginger rhizome to antimicrobial application and adding them in the development of edible coatings to postharvest quality. Papaya fruit was choose as a model fruit, due to its economic importance for the internal and external market, and because it is climacteric fruit, subject to physiological changes and diseases during post-harvest storage. Therefore that proposal expected to reduce qualitative and quantitative losses during fruit post-harvest storage and improve marketing system. (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)

MIRANDA, MARCELA; SUN, XIUXIU; MARIN, ANNA; DOS SANTOS, LUANA CRISTINA; PLOTTO, ANNE; BAI, JINHE; ASSIS, ODILIO BENEDITO GARRIDO; FERREIRA, MARCOS DAVID; BALDWIN, ELIZABETH. Nano- and micro-sized carnauba wax emulsions-based coatings incorporated with ginger essential oil and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose on papaya: Preservation of quality and delay of post-harvest fruit decay. FOOD CHEMISTRY-X, v. 13, p. 13-pg., 2022-02-11. (16/23419-5, 18/10657-0)

DE OLIVEIRA FILHO, JOSEMAR GONCALVES; SILVA, GUILHERME DA CRUZ; ALENCAR OLDONI, FERNANDA CAMPOS; MIRANDA, MARCELA; FLORENCIO, CAMILA; DUARTE DE OLIVEIRA, RAISSA MORET; GOMES, MARIANA DE PAULA; FERREIRA, MARCOS DAVID. Edible Coating Based on Carnauba Wax Nanoemulsion and Cymbopogon martinii Essential Oil on Papaya Postharvest Preservation. COATINGS, v. 12, n. 11, p. 9-pg., 2022-11-01. (18/10657-0, 18/24612-9, 16/23419-5)

DE OLIVEIRA FILHO, JOSEMAR GONCALVES; MIRANDA, MARCELA; FERREIRA, MARCOS DAVID; PLOTTO, ANNE. Nanoemulsions as Edible Coatings: A Potential Strategy for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Preservation. FOODS, v. 10, n. 10, OCT 2021. (18/24612-9, 18/10657-0, 16/23419-5)

MIRANDA, MARCELA; SUN, XIUXIU; FERENCE, CHRISTOPHER; PLOTTO, ANNE; BAI, JINHE; WOOD, DAVID; GARRIDO ASSIS, ODILIO BENEDITO; FERREIRA, MARCOS DAVID; BALDWIN, ELIZABETH. Nano- and Micro- Carnauba Wax Emulsions versus Shellac Protective Coatings on Postharvest Citrus Quality. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE, v. 146, n. 1, p. 40-49, JAN 2021. (16/23419-5)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MIRANDA, Marcela. Antifungal activity of extracts and essential oil of ginger in nanostructured carnauba wax coatings to postharvest conservation of tangerine and papaya. 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas. Araraquara Araraquara.