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Table 2 Effect of temperature change on diseases progress and shelf-life of tomato fruits

From: Post-harvest biocontrol of Fusarium infection in tomato fruits using bio-mediated selenium nanoparticles

Temperature

(25 °C)

Red colored group (A)

Yellow colored group (B)

Water only (T1)

SeNPs only (T2)

Infected treated (T3)

Infected untreated (T4)

Water only (T1)

SeNPs only (T2)

Infected treated (T3)

Infected untreated (T4)

6 days

Fresh

 + 

Fresh

 +  + 

No Infection

50%

PFD

Fresh

 +  + 

Fresh

 +  +  + 

No Infection

ND

10 days

Shrinkage

 + 

Fresh

 + 

20%

PFD

100%

PFD

Fresh

 + 

Fresh

 +  + 

No Infection

ND

12 days

Shrinkage

 +  + 

Fresh

 + 

20%

PFD

–

Shrinkage

 + 

Fresh

 + 

No Infection

66%

PFD

15 days

Shrinkage

 +  +  + 

Shrinkage

 + 

20%

PFD

–

Shrinkage

 +  + 

Fresh

 + 

No Infection

70%

PFD

  1. Data are average of three replicates for each treatment, each replicate contains 10 fruits. Percentage of fruit decay (PFD) was determined by counting the number of tomato fruits showing infection periodically divided by total no of fruits *100 (Tolasa et al. 2021). Infected Treated fruits were treated with MIC value of SeNPs. Shrinkage or freshness were taken on scale, +  +  + : high, +  + : moderate and + : low