date:Jun 21, 2019
Vegetables and fruits are often infected by postharvest pathogens that cause diseases like crown rot, fruit core rot, blue/grey/green mould, anthracnose and soft rot. Fungal infection of fruit and apples can result in significant postharvest losses when storage conditions are not optimal or damages occur during handling or storage. China produced 50% (about 89 million tones) of the world production of apples and in August 2018, soft rot symptoms suspected of being caused by Rhizopus were detecte