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| Author(s): |
Fernando Kazuhiro Edagi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2009-08-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Ricardo Alfredo Kluge;
Angelo Pedro Jacomino;
Giuseppina Pace Pereira Lima
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| Advisor: | Ricardo Alfredo Kluge |
| Abstract | |
The aim of this work was to develop new techniques to improve the loquat fruit Fukuhara conservation, avoiding juiciness loss, increase in firmness and pulp internal browning. For this, allow to cold storage the application of salicilate compounds, 1- methylcyclopropene and temperature conditioning. In the first experiment four concentration of salicylic acid (SA) were applied: 0, 1, 10 and 100mM, and one concentration of methyl salicylate (MeSA) in gas: 0.05mM. In the second experiment four concentration of 1-MCP were applied: 0, 50, 500 and 5000nL L-1 in addition to 0,01mM of MeSA, associated or not to 500nL L-1 of 1-MCP. In the third experiment the treatment applied were: Control: storage at 1°C for 60 days; Standard: storage at 5°C for 60 days; Temperature conditioning 1: storage at 5°C for 7 days and 1°C for 53 days; Temperature conditioning 2: storage at 10°C for 7 days and 1°C for 53 days; Intermittent warming: cycles of 6 days at 1°C + 1 day at 15°C for 60 days; Heat treatment 1: fruit conditioning at 37°C for 3h + 1°C for 60 days; Heat treatment 2: fruit conditioning at 37°C for 6h + 1°C for 60 days. In the three trials, the fruits were packed in polyethylene tereftalate (PET) with PVC plastic film (14 µm thick). The parameters analyzed was: pulp firmness, decay and internal browning incidence, titratable acidity, pH, soluble solids content, ascorbic acid content, phenolic compounds content, activity of phenylalanine ammonium liase (PAL), polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD). The evaluation was made after 15, 30, 45 and 60 days of storage. The SA (1mM) and MeSA (0.05mM) were efficient to decrease internal browning incidence while the highest concentrations of SA caused phytotoxic effect in the fruit. The (0.05mM) was able in controlling of increase of pulp firmness. The 1-MCP was efficient to control the pulp internal browning; Intermittent warming and heat at 37°C for 3h were efficient to control internal browning in pulp of the fruit. (AU) | |