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Pre- and post-harvest strategies to optimize fruit quality and shelf life
About This Book
Ensuring a sustainable tree fruit industry with regard to post-harvest quality management involves engaging approaches and technologies that encompass both pre- and post-harvest issues. The adoption of new, non-destructive technologies is important for quantifying and evaluating the challenge of quality management of fruit in post-harvest systems. This chapter examines the challenge of managing biological variance to improve the success of post-harvest technologies. The chapter looks at ways of measuring harvest maturity and improving sorting operations, as well as considering post-harvest technologies and temperature control. The chapter includes a detailed case study of post-harvest strategies in cherry cultivation in British Columbia. Finally, the chapter looks ahead to future research trends in the field and provides detailed guidance on further reading in this area.
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Table of contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Managing biological variance to improve the success of post-harvest technologies
- 3 Measuring harvest maturity
- 4 Improved sorting operations
- 5 Post-harvest technologies and temperature control
- 6 Case study: post-harvest strategies in cherry cultivation in British Columbia
- 7 Conclusion
- 8 Where to look for further information
- 9 References