Postharvest calcium chloride treatments do not help to increase shelf-life of bananas

Antenette Niranjala Perera; Anjani Manjulika Karunaratne

doi:10.1051/fruits:2002008

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Volume 57 / No 2 (March-April 2002)

Fruits, 57 2 (2002) 87-94

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Issue		Fruits Volume 57, Number 2, March-April 2002


Page(s)		87 - 94
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/fruits:2002008
Published online		15 April 2002

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[1] Poovaiah B.W., Glenn G.M., Reddy A.S.N., Calcium and fruit softening, Physiol. Biochem. Hortic. Rev. 10 (1988) 107-152. [Google Scholar]

[2] Stow J., Effect of calcium ions on apple fruit softening during storage and ripening, Postharvest Biol. Tec. 3 (1993) 1-9. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[3] Wills R.B.H., Tirmazi S.I., Effect of calcium and other minerals on ripening of tomatoes, Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 6 (1979) 221-227. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[4] Tirmazi S.I.H., Wills R.B.H., Retardation of ripening of mangoes by postharvest application of calcium, Trop. Agr. 58 (1981) 137-141. [Google Scholar]

[5] Wills R.B.H., Tirmazi S.I., Inhibition of ripening of avocados with calcium, Sci. Hortic. Amsterdam 16 (1982) 323-330. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[6] Perera O.D.A.N., A study of the physicochemical characteristics of banana and response to postharvest acid and calcium treatment, Univ. Peradeniya, M. Phil. thesis, Sri Lanka, 2000. [Google Scholar]

[7] Perera O.D.A.N., Karunaratne A.M., Response of bananas to postharvest acid treatments, J. Horti. Sci. Biotech. 76 (1) (2001) 70-76. [Google Scholar]

[8] Sokal R.R., Rohlf F.J., Biometry, the principles and practice of statistics in biological research, 3rd, Ed. W.H. Freeman and Co., New-York, USA, 1995. [Google Scholar]

[9] Siddiqui S., Bangerth F., Effect of pre-harvest application of calcium on flesh firmness and cell wall composition of apples-influence of fruit size, J. Hortic. Sci. 70 (2) (1995) 263-269. [Google Scholar]

[10] Dharmasiri M.A.N., A study of papaya anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (penz) Sacc. and C. Capsici (Syd) with special reference to its latent phase, Univ. Peradeniya, thesis, Sri Lanka, 1998. [Google Scholar]

[11] Dingle J., Reid W.W., Solomons G.L., The enzymic degradation of pectin and other polysaccharides. 11. Application of the "Cup Plate'' assay to the estimation of enzymes from fungal pathogens, J. Sci. Food Agr. 4 (1953) 149-155. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[12] Perera O.D.A.N., Basnayake B.M.K.M.K., Karunaratne A.M., Physicochemical characteristics, popularity and susceptibility to anthracnose of some local banana cultivars, J. Nat. Sci. Found. Sri Lanka 27 (2) (1999) 119-130. [Google Scholar]

[13] Wills R.B.H., Tirmazi S.I., Scott K.J., Effect of postharvest application of calcium on ripening rates of pears and bananas, J. Hortic. Sci. 57 (4) (1982) 431-435. [Google Scholar]

[14] Huddar A.G., Chandramonti H.D., Nachegowda V., Effect of postharvest application of calcium on ripening of bananas cv. Robusta, Haryana J. Hortic. Sci. 20 (1991) 60-64. [Google Scholar]

[15] Tanaka K., Yokota M., Takno Y.I., Asakura T., Miyairi K., Okuno T., Role of calcium in fruit involved in ethylene production, Actua Hortic. 197 (1998) 227-236. [Google Scholar]

[16] Vendrell M., McGlasson W.B.. Inhibition of ethylene production in banana fruit tissue by ethylene treatment, Aust. J. Biol. Sci. 24 (1971) 885-895. [Google Scholar]

[17] McCann M.C., Wells B., Roberts K., Direct visualization of cross-links in the primary plant cell wall, J. Cell Sci. 96 (1990) 323-334. [Google Scholar]

[18] Konishi Y., Kitazato S., Asano R., Nakatani N., Polymorphism of acid and neutral-glucosidases in banana pulp: changes in apparent pIs and affinity to Con A of enzymes during ripening, Agr. Biol. Chem. Tokio 55 (4) (1991) 1089-1094. [Google Scholar]

[19] Markovic O., Heinrichova H., Lenkey B., Pectilytic enzymes from banana, Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 40 (1975) 769-774. [Google Scholar]

[20] Biggs A.R., El-Kholi M.M., El-Neshawy S., Nickerson R., Effects of calcium salts on growth, polygalacturonase activity and infection of peach fruit by Monilinia fructicola, Plant Dis. 81 (4) (1997) 399-403. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[21] Siddiqui S., Bangerth F., Differential effect of calcium and strontium on flesh firmness and properties of cell walls in apples, J. Hortic. Sci. 70 (6) (1995) 949-953. [Google Scholar]

[22] Cooper R.M., Rankin B., Wood R.K.S., Cell wall degrading enzymes of vascular wilt fungi. 11. Properties and modes of action of polysaccharidases of Verticillium alboatrum and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, Physiol. Plant Pathol. 13 (1978) 101-134. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[23] Guevara M.A., Gonzalez-Jaen M.T., Estevez P., Multiple forms of pectic lyases and polygalacturonase from Fusarium oxysporum: f. sp. radicis lycopersici: regulation of their synthesis by galacturonic acid, Can. J. Microbiol. 43 (3) (1997) 245-253. [CrossRef] [Google Scholar]

[24] Medina-Suarez R., Manning K., Fletcher J., Aked J., Bird C.R., Seymour G.B., Gene expression in the pulp of ripening bananas, Plant Physiol. 115 (1997) 453-461. [CrossRef] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]