Manual on Postharvest Handling of Mediterranean Tree Fruits and Nuts (eBook)

Carlos Crisosto, Gayle M Crisosto (Herausgeber)

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2020
160 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-78924-718-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Written by recognised postharvest experts, this book provides invaluable, up-to-date information for those working in the growing, packing, shipping and retail phases of the postharvest chain, getting fruit to the consumer. Essential for those in the Mediterranean region and countries that export and import these crops.

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Postharvest is an important element of getting fresh, high-quality fruit to the consumer and technological advances continue to outpace infrastructure. This book provides valuable, up-to-date information on postharvest handling of seven fruit and nut crops: almond, fig, peach, persimmon, pistachio, pomegranate and table grape. These crops are of particular importance in the Mediterranean region, but also to those countries that export and import these crops, where intensive economic resources are dedicated to developing information to understand and solve their postharvest problems.

Written by a team of internationally-recognized postharvest experts, this manual collates and verifies essential, but often difficult to access, information on these important crops, that is pertinent to the world's agricultural economy and affects agricultural communities. The book:
Covers relevant postharvest topics for each crop across harvesting, packing, shipping and retail postharvest phases.
Has an emphasis on knowledge useful to solve current worldwide industry problems.
Includes practical recommendations.
Makes available for the first time in English information previously published in other languages.
Includes up-to-date references and high-quality photos that make it an excellent resource for postharvest educators and students.

This is a must-have manual for growers and commodity handlers, cold storage managers, transportation personnel, produce managers and retail handlers, researchers, or anyone in the food chain that packs, transports, stores and sells these fruits and nuts.

Autor

Carlos H. Crisosto (Edited By) Carlos H. Crisosto is Director of the Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center, UC Davis. The focus of his research and extension program is the postharvest biology and technology of fruits, especially peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, table grapes, figs, kiwifruits, olives, and persimmons, as well as pistachios, almonds and walnuts. The goal of his research program is to develop a better understanding of the orchard factors and postharvest factors that control fruit flavor and shelf life and to develop technology to overcome fruit industry problems. He applies genomic techniques to identify gene(s) responsible for fruit sensory attributes (both desirable and undesirable), and investigating physiological disorders such as chilling injury.Gayle M. Crisosto (Edited By) Gayle Crisosto is a Postharvest Physiology Specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences, US Davis, USA.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2020
• Co-Autor: Cristina Besada, Reinaldo Campos-Vargas, Giancarlo Colelli, Joseph H Connell, Gemma Echeverria, Louise Ferguson, Margarita López Corrales, Amnon Lichter, George Athanasios Manganaris, Sebastián Sáa Silva, Alejandra Salvador, Manuel Joaquín Serradilla Sánchez, Daniel Valero Garrido
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: cold storage fruit problems • consumer handling • culls utilization • determining picking date • fruit and nuts handling • fruit and nuts packing • Fruit and nuts physiology • Health Benefits • packaging requirements • pathological problems • Physiological disorders • practical recommendations • Preparation For Market • recommendations to reduce fruit and nuts losses • sensory quality attributes • temperature management
• ISBN-10: 1-78924-718-7 / 1789247187
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78924-718-3 / 9781789247183