Antifungal Packaging Film to Maintain Quality and Control Postharvest Diseases in Strawberries

• Main Authors: Valentina Trinetta (Author), Austin McDaniel (Author), Konstantinos G. Batziakas (Author), Umut Yucel (Author), Londa Nwadike (Author), Eleni Pliakoni (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Strawberries are a highly perishable crop with postharvest losses than reach up to 40%. Cost-effective and sustainable technologies in the form of active packing films can provide a solution. Antimicrobial packaging films were produced from pullulan polymer and Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLN) contai...