Determination of the influence of packaging measures of a variety of Husayni grapes

Abstract

The loss of the product during post-harvest practices in agriculture is one of the most common problems that threaten food security today. Identifying and eliminating the causes of post-harvest losses is the best strategy to increase the efficiency of the farms and farmers who grow the product and ensure food safety, rather than using additional resources to increase the volume of production of any type of product. World’s yearly table grape production is 16.5 million tons. Producing areas are China, Turkey, Europe, Brazil, Chili and United States. Some popular grape varieties are Thompson Seedless, Flame Seedless, Crimson Seedless, Red Globe, Ruby Seedless, Red Seedless, Muscat and Sugraone. Although in recent years different reviews have described technological advances in maintainingthe quality of table grapes during postharvest, the mechanisms through which they exert theirbeneficial effects require an in-depth review. Thus, the present work aims to review existing literatureon the different potential mechanisms, giving special attention to molecular mechanisms regulatedby the postharvest treatments applied in order to improve table grape quality. Although we havemade an effort to review the mechanisms behind different postharvest treatments, it is important tohighlight that most published studies up until now examining both the effectiveness of treatmentsand their mechanisms, have used the modification of storage atmosphere composition as the onlypostharvest treatment.