Bernasconi, Alessio (2024) Pre- and post-harvest management to reduce losses during storage of pome fruits in organic production. Speech at: Postharvest 2024, Rotorua, New Zealand, 11.-15.11.2024. [Completed]
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- Approximately 40 percent of post-harvest losses consist of fruits and vegetables
- Neofabraea spp.: one of the biggest problems for apple storage
- Research questions
- Pinova storage trial 2023
- Experimental Design
- Perfect condition for new infections
- Implementation of the Mat Tiempo box
- Mat Tiempo boxes significantly decreased the level of infection
- Experimental design: inoculation protocol with and without lesion
- Infection in lab conditions was not as easy as previously thought...
- Wounds ensure a high rate of infection
- Spore monitoring season 2024
- Establishing qPCR method to identify Neofabraea spores
- Neofabraea spores were detected all season
- Fruit bags to investigate the infection period during the growing season
- General conclusions
| EPrint Type: | Conference paper, poster, etc. |
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| Type of presentation: | Speech |
| Keywords: | Pre- and post-harvest interventions, storage management practices, pome fruits sector, Neofabraea alba, sustainable control strategies, fungal diseases, Abacus, FiBL70065, INNO-STOCK |
| Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English interventions http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_88ebf476 English management strategies http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_cffa5313 English biocontrol -> biological control http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_918 English fungal diseases http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_11042 English pome fruits http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_25497 |
| Subjects: | Crop husbandry > Production systems > Fruit and berries Crop husbandry > Post harvest management and techniques |
| Research affiliation: | Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Crops > Crop protection Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Crops > Special crops > Fruit |
| Related Links: | https://www.fibl.org/en/themes/projectdatabase/projectitem/project/2623 |
| Deposited By: | Osterwalder, Hanne |
| ID Code: | 57396 |
| Deposited On: | 24 Mar 2026 14:00 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2026 14:00 |
| Document Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| Refereed: | Not peer-reviewed |
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