Naturally Occurring Antifungal Agents and Their Modes of Action

Effect of postharvest practices on the culturable filamentous fungi and yeast microbiota associated with the pear carpoplane

“…The carpoplane microflora orginates from inoculum introduced from soil, insects, the air, animals, rain (Beuchat and Ryu, 1997;Beuchat, 2002), or the environment within the tree canopy or the orchard, or later in the packhouse, or during interventions such as harvesting, transportation, washing or chemical treatment or through equipment or contact surfaces (Thompson, 2008). Generally all these sources or processes have a direct effect on the microbial diversity as some microbes are better adapted to survive the adverse environmental conditions presented to them throughout the postharvest system (Kubo et al, 2012).…”