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A comparison of low intensity UV-C and high intensity pulsed polychromatic sources as elicitors of hormesis in tomato fruit

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posted on 2016-11-04, 16:32 authored by George Scott, M. Rupar, A.G.D. Fletcher, M. Dickinson, Gilbert Shama
Post-harvest hormetic treatment of mature green tomato fruit (Solanum lycopersicum cv. Mecano) with high intensity pulsed polychromatic light (HIPPL) significantly delayed ripening to levels comparable to those achieved using a conventional low intensity UV-C (LIUV) source. A 16 pulse HIPPL treatment reduced the ΔTCI (tomato colour index) by 50.1 % whilst treatment with a LIUV source led to a reduction of 43.1 %. Moreover, the 16 pulse treatment also induced disease resistance in the fruit to Botrytis cinerea with a 41.7 % reduction in disease progression compared to a 38.1 % reduction for the LIUV source. A single 16 pulse HIPPL treatment was found to significantly reduce disease progression on both mature green and ripe fruit with a 28.5 % reduction on ripe fruit in comparison to 13.4 % for the LIUV treatment. It is shown here that delayed ripening and disease resistance are local responses in side treated tomato fruit for both LIUV and HIPPL treatments. Finally, utilising a 16 pulse HIPPL treatment would reduce treatment times from 370 s for LIUV sources to 10 s per fruit - a 97.3 % reduction.

Funding

The study was financed by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s Horticulture Department (AHDB Horticulture) Project Code- PE 023 and Loughborough University. Tomato fruit were provided by APS Salads (UK) to whom thanks are extended.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Citation

SCOTT, G. ... et al, 2017. A comparison of low intensity UV-C and high intensity pulsed polychromatic sources as elicitors of hormesis in tomato fruit. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 125, pp. 52-58.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-10-21

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Postharvest Biology and Technology and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postharvbio.2016.10.012.

ISSN

0925-5214

Language

  • en