Ethylene sensor-enabled dynamic monitoring and multi-strategies control for quality management of fruit cold chain logistics

Wang, Xuepei (author), Li, Xinwu (author), Fu, Daqi (author), Vidrih, Rajko (author), Zhang, Xiaoshuan (author)

Due to the presence of bioactive compounds, fruits are an essential part of people’s healthy diet. However, endogenous ethylene produced by climacteric fruits and exogenous ethylene in the microenvironment could play a pivotal role in the physiological and metabolic activities, leading to quality losses during storage or shelf life. Moreover, due to the variety of fruits and complex scenarios, different ethylene control strategies need to be adapted to improve the marketability of fruits and maintain their high quality. Therefore, this study proposed an ethylene dynamic monitoring based on multi-strategies control to reduce the post-harvest quality loss of fruits, which was evaluated here for blueberries, sweet cherries, and apples. The results showed that the ethylene dynamic monitoring had rapid static/dynamic response speed (2 ppm/s) and accurately monitoring of ethylene content (99% accuracy). In addition, the quality parameters evolution (firmness, soluble solids contents, weight loss rate, and chromatic aberration) showed that the ethylene multi-strategies control could effectively reduce the quality loss of fruits studied, which showed great potential in improving the quality management of fruits in the supply chain.

• Language: English
• Keywords: ethylene sensor, dynamic monitoring, multi-strategies control, postharvest quality, fruits, cold chain
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 19 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 20, iss. 20, art. 5830
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134442
• UDC: 664.8.03:681.586
• ISSN on article: 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s20205830
• COBISS.SI-ID: 34884099
• Publication date in RUL: 14.01.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sensors
• Shortened title: Sensors
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10176278

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 15.10.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: sadje, skladiščenje sadja, zorenje, etilen, senzorji, elektrokemični senzorji, dinamični monitoring

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: China, National Key Research and Development Program
• Project number: 2017YFD0401304