“…The effectiveness of chitosan has been ascribed to its antifungal activity against B. cinerea (Badawy, Rabea, & Taktak, 2014;Muñoz & Moret, 2010;Silva Jùnior et al, 2014) and to its triggering of plant defenses, such as compounds, enzymes, or genes related to pathogenesis, cell-wall degradation, or the phenylpropanoid pathway, both in strawberry tissues (Landi et al, 2014;Wang & Gao, 2013) and in other fruit (Burketova, Trda, Ott, & Valentova, 2015;Feliziani et al, 2013b;Lu et al, 2014;Muzzarelli et al, 2012). Furthermore, the formation of a semi-permeable film by chitosan over the fruit Table 7 Fruit surface color described by the parameters of L*, a* and b*, which relate to the luminescence, red tone, and yellow tone, respectively.…”