Postharvest News and Information

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Postharvest News and Information is a bi-monthly news, reviews and abstract journal designed to keep its international readership quickly and fully informed of current developments in postharvest research. The journal provides up-to-date information on postharvest research of grain, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables and other commodities, and covers all aspects of postharvest research and technology, including drying, grading, handling, storage, pests of stored products, spoilage, ripening, contamination, minimal processing, social policy, economics, and marketing.

The bibliographic content of Postharvest News and Information is derived from CAB Abstracts the original applied life sciences database, coverage includes drying, grading, handling, storage, pests of stored products, minimal processing and marketing.


Online Abstract Database

The bibliographic content of Postharvest News and Information is available online.

Postharvest Abstracts is a fully searchable abstract database covering the latest information on postharvest research of grain, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables and other commodities.

Derived from CAB Abstracts, the original applied life sciences database, coverage includes drying, grading, handling, storage, pests of stored products, spoilage, ripening, contamination, minimal processing, social policy, economics and marketing.

Postharvest Abstracts is updated weekly, delivering all the new highly-targeted, searchable summaries covering key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books on postharvest research.

Postharvest Abstracts includes a fully searchable backfile to 1976. Over 101,000 research summaries (click here for a sample record) bring a wealth of current and seminal information on postharvest research to your fingertips! Over 5,000 records are added to the database each year.

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Coverage

General

• All aspects of postharvest research - from harvesting the crop up to the initial stages of processing 
• Research on preharvest factors affecting postharvest characteristics
• Food and non-food commodities are covered:
• Grain
• Pulses
• Oilseeds
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Nuts
• Fibres
• Sugar crops
• Beverage crops and stimulant plants (cocoa, coffee, tea, tobacco, etc)
• Ornamentals (cut flowers, cut foliage, pot plants)
• Other oil crops
• Medicinal and essential oil plants
• Spice plants

Drying and cleaning 

• Drying, including grain drying and sun drying of fruits and vegetables
• Moisture content determination
• Driers and cleaners
• Including drier design and performance

Grading, sorting and quality aspects

• All aspects of grading and sorting, including equipment and techniques
• Research on quality assessment, quality standards and quality components (e.g. aroma and flavour volatiles in fruits, fruit firmness, hardness in grain, rice cracking and discoloration)
• Mechanical properties of commodities (colour, size, shape)
• Tests for maturity determination

Handling, packing and transport

Coverage includes

• Handling and packing techniques
• Handling machinery
• Packaging materials
• Packhouses
• Transport
• Impact damage assessment
• Washing and cooling

Fresh cut produce

Aspects covered include

• Chopping, washing, slicing and shredding of fresh produce
• Packaging of fresh-cut produce for sale
• Package atmospheres and browning
• Metabolism
• Contamination and storage of packaged fresh-cut produce

Storage

All aspects of stores and storage systems, environments and treatments are covered, including

• Controlled atmosphere storage
• Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP)
• Effects of preharvest factors on storage quality
• Characteristics of cultivars in storage
• Breeding for improved storage quality
• Sprouting during storage
• Sprout inhibition
• Moisture absorption in storage
• Physiology and biochemistry of storage
• Storage disorders
• Storage aeration and design
• Properties of storage bins and silos

Stored products pests

• Incidence
• Biology
• Prevention and control including biological control of pests of stored products (including laboratory tests)
• Developments in pesticide resistance, in cultivar and genotype resistance to pests of stored products, and in breeding for pest resistance

Postharvest pathology

• Incidence
• Biology
• Prevention and control including biological control of postharvest decay (including laboratory tests)
• Cultivar and genotype resistance to storage decay
• Breeding for resistance
• Assessment of postharvest losses

Ripening and senescence
Covers all aspects of the

• Biochemistry, Physiology and genetics of ripening (pre- and postharvest) and senescence 
• Vase life of cut flowers

Food safety, contamination and mycotoxins
Coverage includes

• Pesticide residues resulting from preharvest and postharvest pesticide applications
• Levels of mycotoxins in commodities
• Techniques for mycotoxin determination
• Contamination with toxinogenic fungi

Processing and extraction
Initial processing of commodities is covered, including:

• Fermentation of cocoa and coffee beans
• Fermentation of cassava
• Assessment of cyanogenic potential of cassava and cassava products
• Coffee pulping
• Tea leaf processing
• Retting of fibre crops
• Extraction of oils, juice and dyes, etc.
• Malting quality
• Milling, milling quality, mills
• Shellers and shelling

Economics and marketing

• Economics and costs of postharvest activities
• Marketing systems for specific commodities or groups of commodities
• Imports and exports
• Food policy, food supply and food security 

Updates to this list are produced monthly. Designation of Open Access publications are currently available in the downloadable version.

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