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Picking wound curing to reduce Botrytis storage rot of kiwifruit.

Author(s) : PENNYCOOK S. R., MANNING M. A.

Type of article: Article

Summary

Incidence of stem-end rot in kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) inoculated with B. cinerea just before entering cool storage was reduced progressively with increasing duration of a holding period at ambient temperature between harvesting and grading/packing, from 49% with a nil holding period to 6% with 7 days at ambient. A holding period at 0 deg C before grading/packing was also effective, but over a longer time scale; rot incidence was not reduced with 4 days, but was reduced to 20% with 7 days at 0 deg C. A similar pattern of reductions in Botrytis rot incidence occurred in uninoculated kiwifruit subjected to the same treatments.

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  • Original title: Picking wound curing to reduce Botrytis storage rot of kiwifruit.
  • Record ID : 1994-2955
  • Languages: English
  • Source: N. Z. J. Crop hortic. Sci. - vol. 20 - n. 3
  • Publication date: 1992

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