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Commercial postharvest handling and storage technology of litchi fruit.

Author(s) : LIN H. T., CHEN S. J., XI Y. F.

Type of article: Article

Summary

The paper comprehensively introduces the causes of decay and losses of litchi fruit (i.e. the structural characteristics of fruit, the physiological and pathological causes), techniques of commercial postharvest handling and storage of litchi fruit, including differing storage characteristics of cultivars, harvest maturity and harvesting method, sorting and grading, fungicides dipping, treatments to reduce water loss, treatments to reduce pericarp browning and maintain red colour of litchi fruit such as SO2 fumigation, acid dipping or plastic packaging, quarantine treatment such as insect disinfestations, precooling, packaging, fruit storage under ambient temperature, cold storage, controlled or modified atmosphere storage, transportation and marketing.

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  • Original title: Commercial postharvest handling and storage technology of litchi fruit.
  • Record ID : 2005-0767
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Trans. chin. Soc. agric. Eng. - vol. 19 - n. 5
  • Publication date: 2003

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