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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 1989. Over 124,000 research summaries 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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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

 

Economics and marketing

• – economics and costs of postharvest activities
• • – food policy, food supply and food security

  – imports and exports

• – marketing systems for specific commodities or groups of commodities

 

Food safety, contamination and mycotoxins

Coverage includes

• • – contamination with toxinogenic fungi
  • – levels of mycotoxins in commodities

  – pesticide residues resulting from preharvest and postharvest pesticide applications

• – techniques for mycotoxin determination

 

Fresh cut produce

Aspects covered include

• – chopping, washing, slicing and shredding of fresh produce
• • – contamination and storage of packaged fresh-cut produce

  – packaging of fresh-cut produce for sale

• – package atmospheres and browning
• – metabolism

 

General

• – all aspects of postharvest research – from harvesting the crop up to the initial stages of processing
• • – beverage crops and stimulant plants (cocoa, coffee, tea, tobacco, etc)
  • – fibres

  – food and non-food commodities are covered:

• • – fruits

  – grain

• • – medicinal and essential oil plants

  – nuts

• • – oilseeds
  • • – ornamentals (cut flowers, cut foliage, pot plants)
    • – other oil crops

    – pulses

• • – research on preharvest factors affecting postharvest characteristics
  • – spice plants

  – sugar crops

• – vegetables

 

Grading, sorting and quality aspects

• – all aspects of grading and sorting, including equipment and techniques
• – mechanical properties of commodities (colour, size, shape)
• • – 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)

  – tests for maturity determination

 

Handling, packing and transport

Coverage includes

• – handling and packing techniques
• – handling machinery
• • – impact damage assessment

  – packaging materials

• – packhouses
• – transport
• – washing and cooling

 

Postharvest pathology

• • – assessment of postharvest losses
• – biology
• • – breeding for resistance
  • – cultivar and genotype resistance to storage decay

  – incidence

• – prevention and control including biological control of postharvest decay (including laboratory tests)

 

Processing and extraction

Initial processing of commodities is covered, including:

• • • • – assessment of cyanogenic potential of cassava and cassava products

    – coffee pulping

  • • – extraction of oils, juice and dyes, etc.

    – fermentation of cassava

  – fermentation of cocoa and coffee beans

• • – retting of fibre crops
• • – malting quality
• – milling, milling quality, mills
• – shellers and shelling
• • – tea leaf processing

 

Ripening and senescence

Covers all aspects of the

• – biochemistry, Physiology and genetics of ripening (pre- and postharvest) and senescence
• – vase life of cut flowers

 

Storage

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

• – breeding for improved storage quality
• – characteristics of cultivars in storage
• • – controlled atmosphere storage
• • • – effects of preharvest factors on storage quality

    – modified atmosphere packaging (MAP)

• – moisture absorption in storage
• – physiology and biochemistry of storage
• • • – properties of storage bins and silos

    – sprouting during storage

  • – sprout inhibition

  – storage disorders

• – storage aeration and design

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  Stored products pests

• • – biology
  • – developments in pesticide resistance, in cultivar and genotype resistance to pests of stored products, and in breeding for pest resistance

  – incidence

• – prevention and control including biological control of pests of stored products (including laboratory tests)

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