Advances in Vacuum Ultraviolet Photolysis in the Postharvest Management of Fruit and Vegetables Along the Value Chains: a Review

Mabusela, Bongolwethu P.; Belay, Zinash A.; Godongwana, Buntu; Pathak, Namrata; Mahajan, Pramod V.; Caleb, Oluwafemi J.

doi:10.1007/s11947-021-02703-1

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“…Vacuum Ultraviolet Photolysis is novel technique that has been proposed for limiting the negative impact of ET, based on the generation of highly reactive radicals that can oxidise ET to carbon dioxide and water while simultaneously inactivating pathogenic microorganisms. This technique has been tested on several products, including fruits and vegetables ( Mabusela et al., 2022 ).…”

Section: Ethylene-related Postharvest Management and Physiological Re...mentioning

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Ethylene: Management and breeding for postharvest quality in vegetable crops. A review

Natalini

2022

Front. Plant Sci.

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Ethylene is a two-carbon gaseous plant growth regulator that involved in several important physiological events, including growth, development, ripening and senescence of fruits, vegetables, and ornamental crops. The hormone accelerates ripening of ethylene sensitive fruits, leafy greens and vegetables at micromolar concentrations, and its accumulation can led to fruit decay and waste during the postharvest stage. Several strategies of crops management and techniques of plant breeding have been attempted in the last decades to understand ethylene regulation pathways and ethylene-dependent biochemical and physiological processes, with the final aim to extend the produce shelf-life and improve the postharvest quality of fruits and vegetables. These investigation approaches involve the use of conventional and new breeding techniques, including precise genome-editing. This review paper aims to provide a relevant overview on the state of the art related to the use of modern breeding techniques focused on ethylene and ethylene-related metabolism, as well as on the possible postharvest technological applications for the postharvest management of ethylene-sensitive crops. An updated view and perspective on the implications of new breeding and management strategies to maintain the quality and the marketability of different crops during postharvest are given, with particular focus on: postharvest physiology (ethylene dependent) for mature and immature fruits and vegetables; postharvest quality management of vegetables: fresh and fresh cut products, focusing on the most important ethylene-dependent biochemical pathways; evolution of breeding technologies for facing old and new challenges in postharvest quality of vegetable crops: from conventional breeding and marker assisted selection to new breeding technologies focusing on transgenesis and gene editing. Examples of applied breeding techniques for model plants (tomato, zucchini and brocccoli) are given to elucidate ethylene metabolism, as well as beneficial and detrimental ethylene effects.

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Ethylene: Management and breeding for postharvest quality in vegetable crops. A review

Natalini

2022

Front. Plant Sci.

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“…For a small system, such as packages, the common ethylene absorbers or oxidizers or scavengers such as zeolite, activated carbon, clay and potassium permanganate are suitable to use inside the package along with the respiring product. [6][7][8] As discussed above, the production and removal of ethylene should be considered while storing fruits inside a package for a long duration. Over the time, researchers focused on modelling oxygen and carbon dioxide in modified atmosphere packaging (MAP).…”

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“…Moreover, different ethylene‐scrubbing/removing techniques can be applied to remove ethylene according to the package headspace volume and product type. For a small system, such as packages, the common ethylene absorbers or oxidizers or scavengers such as zeolite, activated carbon, clay and potassium permanganate are suitable to use inside the package along with the respiring product 6–8 …”

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Ethylene modelling in package headspace of fresh produce: A review

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Ethylene accumulation is one of the main causes of rapid deterioration of climacteric fruit and vegetables in a package as ethylene accelerates the ripening process. Modelling the ethylene gas in a package headspace is a promising way to control the ripening process as it provides and optimises the methods to remove ethylene. In this review, the transmission of ethylene through a package, ethylene removal by a scavenger and ethylene accumulation inside the package are discussed with their models. The permeability of packaging material allows ethylene to escape from the package to a little extent. The perforation in packaging material also helps ethylene to depart rapidly from the fruit package which is explained and modelled using Fick's first law of diffusion. The pseudo‐first‐ and second‐order kinetics based on the adsorption phenomena have been used to model the removal of ethylene by a scavenger. The mass balance between the ethylene transmission rate through the package, ethylene production rate by fruit and ethylene removal by scavenger provides the ethylene accumulation which can be helpful for predicting the quality of the fruit inside a package. This study could lead to the development of an active fruit packaging system with the inclusion of ethylene along with oxygen and carbon dioxide for extending the shelf life of fresh commodities in postharvest storage.

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“…Photolysis generally employs UV light sources, such as low-pressure and medium-pressure mercury lamps with approximately 85% output UV light at 254 nm and 15% output at 185 nm. The high energy photons generated at 185 nm are self-sufficient in decomposing oxygen and water molecules present in the air to produce highly reactive species such as atomic O 2 , hydroxyl radicals and ozone which are responsible for the oxidation of ethylene to carbon dioxide and water (Mabusela et al 2021a ). The application of VUV photolysis has been commonly used for the removal of organics in the aqueous phase and air pollutants (Huang et al 2016a ; Kang et al 2018 ; Mahmoudkhani et al 2016 ).…”

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“…However, the application of VUV photolysis for postharvest ethylene management is still very limited. The efficiency of this technique is dependent on the generated hydroxyl radicals that are responsible for the oxidation of ethylene to carbon dioxide and water (Mabusela et al 2021a ). Furthermore, the impact of the radicals and/or direct VUV radiation on the surface and/or quality of treated fruit is still not known.…”

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Impact of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photolysis on ethylene degradation kinetics and removal in mixed-fruit storage, and direct exposure to ‘Fuji’ apples during storage

Mabusela¹,

Belay²,

Godongwana³

et al. 2023

J Food Sci Technol

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Accumulated ethylene in fruit storage/transportation causes rapid senescence resulting in reduced shelf-life and postharvest losses. The aim of this study was to investigate the application of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photolysis modular reactor for fruit storage. The first experiment compared the effectiveness of VUV photolysis reactor with the standard fruit industry adsorbent (potassium permanganate, KMnO4) on the removal of ethylene from mixed-fruit loading of apples, banana, and pears stored at ambient temperature (16 °C) for 6 days. Second study evaluated the impact of direct VUV radiation on quality attributes of apples stored at 10 °C for 21 days. Results showed that ethylene produced in mixed-fruit loading storage significantly (p < 0.05) reduced by 86.9% in the storage chamber connected to VUV modular reactor compared to 25.4% for storage under potassium permanganate. Direct exposure of apples to VUV radiation successfully reduced both ethylene and respiration rate but damaged the skin of the apples. Hue angle and lightness (L*) for apples exposed to VUV radiation declined significantly (p < 0.05) from 60.7 ± 1.09 to 33.5 ± 9.51 and 58.1 ± 3.60 to 50.4 ± 1.13, respectively. This study showed the potential of VUV photolysis as an innovative technique for removing ethylene from storage facility.

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Advances in Vacuum Ultraviolet Photolysis in the Postharvest Management of Fruit and Vegetables Along the Value Chains: a Review

Cited by 8 publications

References 139 publications

Ethylene: Management and breeding for postharvest quality in vegetable crops. A review

Ethylene: Management and breeding for postharvest quality in vegetable crops. A review

Ethylene modelling in package headspace of fresh produce: A review

Impact of vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photolysis on ethylene degradation kinetics and removal in mixed-fruit storage, and direct exposure to ‘Fuji’ apples during storage

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