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Effect of Sustainable Preharvest and Postharvest Techniques on Quality and Storability of High-Acidity ‘Reinette du Canada’ Apple
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Facultad/Centro
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Título de la revista
Horticulturae
Número de la revista
2
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Guerra, M., Sanz, M. Á., Rodríguez-González, Á., & Casquero, P. A. (2022). Effect of Sustainable Preharvest and Postharvest Techniques on Quality and Storability of High-Acidity ‘Reinette du Canada’ Apple. Horticulturae, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/HORTICULTURAE8020086
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MDPI
Fecha
2022
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[EN] Consumers are more disposed towards paying price premiums for sustainable food products.
This fact is especially important for products with a PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) label,
such as the high-acidity apple cultivar ‘Reinette du Canada’. However, ‘Reinette du Canada’ apple
fruit is affected by two of the main post-harvest disorders in apple cultivars, bitter pit and senescent
breakdown. As a means to achieve sustainable production of this high-quality apple cultivar, the
effect of a sustainable preharvest technique, summer pruning, in combination with a zero-residue
postharvest treatment allowed in organic farming on calcium-related disorders and quality in global
terms in this PDO-labelled apple cultivar was assessed during storage. The combination of the two
sustainable practices was an effective tool in diminishing senescent breakdown from 43% to 17%
and to decrease bitter pit incidence by up to 21% (from 36% to 15%) throughout storage, especially
in fruit with high susceptibility to this disorder during storage. Moreover, the overall acceptability
was kept high (values of more than 3 on a 5-point scale) when applying this environment-friendly
sustainable horticulture practice, which will not only reduce the synthetic pesticide input in the apple
agroecosystem, but also contribute to producing fruit with zero residues
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