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Postharvest technologies offer potential to reduce food losses.

Cartwright, A.;

World Agriculture 1994. Year: 1994 Pages: 123-125

1994

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Postharvest technologies offer potential to reduce food losses.

ABSTRACT :

 

Fruits from several plantain and cooking banana cultivars grown in Nigeria were assessed for their stomatal size and densities and these variates were related to weight loss during the postharvest period. Differences were identified in the weight loss and ripening of the fruits between several cultivars during the postharvest period. There was no correlation between weight loss and the density or size of the stomata on the fruit peel. The fruits of 2 hybrids produced by crossing a plantain and a cooking banana with a diploid cultivar resulted in fruits with low stomatal densities, but there were limited differences in stomatal density or size between other plantain and cooking banana cultivars. Scanning electron microscopy revealed the point of restriction in the stomatal pore to be well below the surface. The validity of using stomatal imprints to determine the potential area for gas exchange or whether stomata are open or closed is discussed.