Foliar Application of Calcium Reduces Postharvest Decay in Sweet Cherry Fruit by Various Mechanisms

Vangdal, E.; Hovland, Kari Louise; Børve, J.; Sekse, L.

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2008.768.16

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“…Application of Ca(OH) 2 0.7% reduced cracking and fruit size and increased SSC, firmness, and calcium levels in both fruit flesh and skin (Demirsoy and Bilgener, 1998a ). Sweet cherry trees sprayed with CaCl 2 0.5% once a week from petal fall until 2 weeks before harvest showed higher SSC and higher levels of phenolics, reduced decay, and cuticular fractures, but showed higher weight loss during storage (Vangdal et al, 2008 ). Preharvest application of ethephon reduced both fruit removal force and fruit flesh firmness at harvest (Elfving et al, 2009 ).…”

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Factors Affecting Quality and Health Promoting Compounds during Growth and Postharvest Life of Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.)

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Sweet cherries are attractive fruits due to their taste, color, nutritional value, and beneficial health effects. Sweet cherry is a highly perishable fruit and all quality attributes and the level of health promoting compounds are affected by growth conditions, picking, packing, transport, and storage. During production, the correct combination of scion × rootstock will produce fruits with higher firmness, weight, sugars, vitamins, and phenolic compounds that boost the fruit antioxidant activity. Orchard management, such as applying drip irrigation and summer pruning, will increase fruit sugar levels and total phenolic content, while application of growth regulators can result in improved storability, increased red coloring, increased fruit size, and reduced cracking. Salicylic acid, oxalic acid, acetylsalicylic acid, and methyl salicylate are promising growth regulators as they also increase total phenolics, anthocyanins, and induce higher activity of antioxidant enzymes. These growth regulators are now also applied as fruit coatings that improve shelf-life with higher antioxidant enzyme activities and total phenolics. Optimizing storage and transport conditions, such as hydro cooling with added CaCl2, chain temperature and relative humidity control, are crucial for slowing down decay of quality attributes and increasing the antioxidant capacity. Application of controlled atmosphere during storage is successful in delaying quality attributes, but lowers ascorbic acid levels. The combination of low temperature storage in combination with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is successful in reducing the incidence of fruit decay, while preserving taste attributes and stem color with a higher antioxidant capacity. A new trend in MAP is the use of biodegradable films such as micro-perforated polylactic acid film that combine significant retention of quality attributes, high consumer acceptability, and a reduced environmental footprint. Another trend is to replace MAP with fruit edible coatings. Edible coatings, such as various lipid composite coatings, have advantages in retaining quality attributes and increasing the antioxidant activity (chitosan) and are regarded as approved food additives, although studies regarding consumer acceptance are needed. The recent publication of the sweet cherry genome will likely increase the identification of more candidate genes involved in growing and maintaining health related compounds and quality attributes.

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Factors Affecting Quality and Health Promoting Compounds during Growth and Postharvest Life of Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.)

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“…Both pre-and postharvest applications of CaCl 2 were reported to reduce postharvest decay of sweet cherries (Feliziani, Santini, Landi, & Romanazzi, 2013;Vangdal, Hovland, Borve, Sekse, & Slimestad, 2008). While the role of Ca in reducing decay is thought to be via strengthening the cell wall and membrane structure making them more resistant to fungal enzyme activity (Conway, 1982), Vangdal et al (2008) demonstrated that preharvest CaCl 2 sprays reduced postharvest decay of sweet cherries by inhibiting cuticular fractures and increasing phenolic compounds in the fruit. The present study indicates that inhibiting decay in 'Skeena' and 'Bing' by adding CaCl 2 in hydrocooling water is associated with reduced splitting.…”

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Physiological and biochemical changes relating to postharvest splitting of sweet cherries affected by calcium application in hydrocooling water

Yan

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2015

Food Chemistry

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“…Ca is an important macronutrient, which is involved in the regulation of the main physiological processes in plants, contributing to the strength of the cell walls and membranes and reducing cherry cracking [2][3][4][5][6]. Under drought conditions, growth and physiological performance are improved by Ca sprays of Zoysia japonica and Zea mays plants [7,8].…”

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Foliar Application of Calcium and Growth Regulators Modulate Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.) Tree Performance

Correia

Queirós

Ferreira

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Cracking of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) fruits is caused by rain events close to harvest. This problem has occurred in most cherry growing regions with significant economic losses. Several orchard management practices have been applied to reduce the severity of this disorder, like the foliar application of minerals or growth regulators. In the present study, we hypothesized that preharvest spray treatments improve the physiological performance of sweet cherry trees and could also mitigate environmental stressful conditions. Effects of repeated foliar spraying of calcium (Ca), gibberellic acid (GA3), abscisic acid (ABA), salicylic acid (SA), glycine betaine (GB), and the biostimulant Ascophyllum nodosum (AN) on the physiological and biochemical performance of ‘Skeena’ sweet cherry trees during two consecutive years (without Ca in 2015 and in 2016 with addition of Ca) were studied. Results showed that in general spray treatments improved the physiological performance and water status of the trees. AN and ABA sprays were demonstrated to be the best compounds for increasing yield and reducing cherry cracking as well as improving photosynthetic performance and leaf metabolites content. In conclusion, AN and ABA might be promising tools in the fruit production system.

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Foliar Application of Calcium Reduces Postharvest Decay in Sweet Cherry Fruit by Various Mechanisms

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Factors Affecting Quality and Health Promoting Compounds during Growth and Postharvest Life of Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.)

Factors Affecting Quality and Health Promoting Compounds during Growth and Postharvest Life of Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.)

Physiological and biochemical changes relating to postharvest splitting of sweet cherries affected by calcium application in hydrocooling water

Foliar Application of Calcium and Growth Regulators Modulate Sweet Cherry (Prunus avium L.) Tree Performance

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