The quality of plant food products. Principal postharvest processing of fruit and vegetables. Phisiology of plant products: nutritional decay. Storage technologies selection. Ethylene biosyntesis. Ethylene: climateric and non-climateric fruits. Postharvest study of the ethylene metabolism; ripening competency of fruits; signal perception and transduction. Ethylene inhibitors. Molecular studies on the ripening processess of some fruits. Fruit quality standards. Biochemistry of some alterations of plant foods. Features of cold storage technologies. Postharvest handling of fruits and vegetables. Controlled and modified atmospheres. New technologies: ozone technology in industrial field of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Electronic handouts/materials provided by the teacher.
Conservazione degli Ortofrutticoli Autori Anelli e Mencarelli. Edagricole.
Postharvest Physiology of Perishable Plant Products. Autore Stanley J. Kays. Exon Press, Athens, GA
Power Point slides