Overview
- Presents the best and latest reports on post-harvest science
- Contains a combination of basic and applied data for post-harvest handling
- Contains reports of the best post-harvest science researchers
- Contains up-to-date approaches for disease control of post-harvest diseases
Part of the book series: Plant Pathology in the 21st Century (ICPP, volume 2)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (14 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
As a collection of papers that includes material presented at the 2008 International Congress for Plant Pathology, this text features research right at the leading edge of the field. The latest findings are particularly crucial in their implications for fruit production; an important market sector where in some areas up to 50 per cent of the crop can be lost after harvest. While post-harvest fruit treatments with fungicides are the most effective means to reduce decay, rising concerns about toxicity have led to the development of alternative approaches to disease control, including biological methods, the subject of three chapters of this book. With several new techniques requiring modification of current post-harvest practices, it is more important than ever to stay abreast of the latest information.
Other chapters deal with the mechanisms of host fruit and vegetable resistance, fungal pathogenicity factors and their relationship with the host response, and a number of subjects related to disease assessments before harvest as well as their relationship to the postharvest treatment of fruits and vegetables. The book also includes several useful case studies of crops such as kiwifruit and peaches, where different approaches at the pre- and post-harvest levels are combined to good effect. With food production issues gaining an ever higher profile internationally, this text makes an important contribution to the debate.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Volume 2 deals with Post-harvest Pathology. This is a slender volume, containing only 14 papers … . They bring together a summary of work across the whole field of plant pathology … . They thus enable specialists to see their specialism as part of an integrated whole, and for students and those at the start of their careers they provide an invaluable summary of what is going on, who the key players are and where the knowledge lacunae lie.” (David Ingram, Food Security, Vol. 3, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Post-harvest Pathology
Editors: Dov Prusky, Maria Lodovica Gullino
Series Title: Plant Pathology in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8930-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8929-9Published: 25 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3182-0Published: 05 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8930-5Published: 01 December 2009
Series ISSN: 2512-160X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1626
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 212
Topics: Plant Pathology, Plant Sciences, Agriculture, Bioinformatics