Overview
- Worldwide interest in this up-to-date topic
- Link to an International Congress with 2,000 participants
- Very well known authors, coming from all over the world
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Plant Pathology in the 21st Century (ICPP, volume 7)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fungal Pathogenicity
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Host Resistance
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Epidemiology and Epiphytic Colonization
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Disease Control: Chemical, Biological and New Approaches
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About this book
This collection of papers includes some of the presentation given at the International congress of Plant Pathology held in Beijing in 2013 in the session of Recent Development in Postharvest Pathology. Fruit production for human consumption is an important part of the market economy. Any waste during to spoilage and pest infestation, in the field and the postharvest phase, results in significant economic losses which are more pronounced as the losses occur closer to the time of produce sale. Careful handling of perishable produce is needed for the prevention of postharvest diseases at different stages during harvesting. Handling, transport and storage in order to preserve the high quality produce. The extent of postharvest losses varies markedly depending on the commodities and country estimated to range between 4 and 8% in countries where postharvest refrigeration facilities are well developed to 30% where facilities are minimal. Microbial decay is one of the main factors that determine losses compromising the quality of the fresh produce. For the development of an integrated approach for decay management, cultural, preharvest, harvest and postharvest practices should be regarded as essential components that influence the complex interactions between host, pathogen, and environmental conditions. Orchards practices including preharvest fungicide applications can also directly reduce the development of postharvest fruit decay. Among postharvest practices, postharvest fruittreatments with fungicide are the most effective means to reduce decay. Ideally, these fungicides protect the fruit from infections that occur before treatment, including pathogen causing quiescent infections, as well from infection that are initiated after treatment during postharvest handling, shipment and marketing. The implementation of these alternatives techniques often requires modifying currently used postharvest practices and development of new formulation for their applications.
The present chapters deal with the newest report related to postharvest pathology in the world.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-harvest Pathology
Book Subtitle: Plant Pathology in the 21st Century, Contributions to the 10th International Congress, ICPP 2013
Editors: Dov Prusky, Maria Lodovica Gullino
Series Title: Plant Pathology in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07701-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-07700-0Published: 16 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35353-1Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-07701-7Published: 03 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2512-160X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1626
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 137
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Pathology, Agriculture, Microbiology