Effect of post-harvest treatments on the ambient storage of mango cv. Dashehari.
Periyathambi R., Navprem S., Harminder Kaur, Jawandha S. K.
Author Affiliation: Department of Horticulture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana - 141 004, India.
Progressive Horticulture 45 : 104-109
Abstract : Dashehari mango fruits were wrapped individually in perforated low density polyethylene bags (LDPE) or heat shrinkable Cryovac film D 995 after dipping in aqueous solutions of calcium chloride and calcium nitrate (2.0 and 4.0%, each) for five minutes to minimize the post harvest losses. Fruit treated with calcium compounds and packed in LDPE film substantially retarded the ripening processes and maintained higher fruit firmness along with lower physiological loss in weight (PLW) as compared to untreated fruits.