Effect of some postharvest treatment on garlic quality

This investigation was carried out to evaluate the effect of different wrapping with LifeSpan sheet lining and Polypropylene?sheet lining and coating with Chitosan at 0.5% as a post-harvest treatments at 3 plant ages (18, 20 and 22 weeks from planting?date) on keeping quality of minimally processed green garlic during cold storage at 0?1 ?C. The used cultivar is ?Balady??which favorite for exporting at immature stages. Weight loss of minimally processed green garlic bulbs, visual quality, TSS?(%), total sugars content and total pungency content increased significantly with the progress of plant age, independently?from the different post-harvest treatments. Garlic bulb at the age of 20 and 22 weeks in LifeSpan sheet lining can be stored at?0?1 ?C and 90-95 % RH for 4 weeks, with reduce weight loss, hold more TSS, total sugar and total pungency and maintained?high visual quality.SourcesEFFECT OF SOME POST HARVEST TREATMENTS ON QUALITY OF?FRESH GARLICSayed Fathey El-Sayed1, Mostafa Abd El-Fattah El-Helaly1, Mostafa Saleh Emam2 and Marwa Abd El-Rahman Abd El-Ghaffar21Department of Horticulture Vegetable Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt.2Horticulture Research Institute, Vegetable Handling Research Department, Giza, Egypt.Plant Archives Vol. 19 No. 2, 2019 pp. 2815-2824http://plantarchives.org/19-2/2815-2824%20(5268).pdf