Hort. Sci. (Prague), 2023, 50(3):199-207 | DOI: 10.17221/73/2022-HORTSCI

Postharvest application of boric acid on grapes to improve the shelf-life and maintain the qualityOriginal Paper

Hui-Jie Li1,2, Da-Long Guo1,2, Jia-Bing Jiao1,2, Yi-Man Fang1,2, Yang-Yang Zhang1,2
1 College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang P.R. China
2 Henan Engineering Technology Research Center of Quality Regulation and Controlling of Horticultural Plants, Luoyang, P.R. China

Boric acid (BA) is commercially acceptable and economically feasible material to enhance the shelf life of pears, oranges and other horticultural plants. Here, we investigated the effect of BA on the shelf life and post-harvest quality of table grapes (cv. ‘Kyoho’). The grapes were immersed in a BA solution with different concentrations [0 (as the control), 10, 30, 50 mM] for 10 min and stored at 25 ± 1 °C for 10 days. Compared to the control, the BA treatments maintained higher berry firmness by inhibiting the activity of polygalacturonase (PG) and cellulase. In addition, the BA-treated grapes maintained higher antioxidant enzyme activities, such as catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), and lower metabolic toxic products, like the superoxide anion (O2-) production rate, malondialdehyde (MDA) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) content than the control. The experimental results showed that the post-harvest application of BA effectively delays the senescence of grapes compared with the control, and the 10 mM BA treatment had the most obvious effect.

Keywords: Kyoho; boric acid; postharvest; antioxidant enzyme

Accepted: February 24, 2023; Prepublished online: September 18, 2023; Published: September 29, 2023  Show citation

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Li H, Guo D, Jiao J, Fang Y, Zhang Y. Postharvest application of boric acid on grapes to improve the shelf-life and maintain the quality. Hort. Sci. (Prague). 2023;50(3):199-207. doi: 10.17221/73/2022-HORTSCI.
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