date:Sep 05, 2013
efficacy of microwave treatment only in the case of Placido peaches microwave-treated at 10 KW for 95 sec, in which the brown rot was better controlled in smaller fruit.
For all tested varieties, the maturity fruit level did not affect the efficacy of microwave treatments. The brown rot incidence was significantly reduced to less than 14% in infected and treated fruit compared to untreated fruit, in which the brown rot incidence was higher than 45%.
In addition, fruit firmness was not negat