EUFRUIT WP4 Scanning report Y1 "WP4 Fruit quality, improvement of fruit handling/ storage"

Experimental orchards: orchards for pome and stone fruit cultivation, and for vegetable growing. Sorting machine for grading
of pome fruit.

Storage facility Agroscope: 16 independent small CA-containers, which allow serial trials. Two CA-rooms with 3 and 5 tons
capacity respectively, more than 12 regular atmosphere storage rooms.

Storage methods: Storage of pome, stone fruits and vegetables. Storage under regular atmosphere, CA-storage, ULO-storage
and DCA-storage. Storage under modified atmosphere for stone fruit and berries.
Assessment of fruit quality: Measurement of fruit firmness, total soluble solids and titratable acidity with the automatic
laboratory Pimprenelle. Analytical lab with HP GC, GC-MS and other analytical instruments.

Microbiology and molecular biology lab: Establishing the apple fruit microbiome for different cultivars and orchard
management conditions using classical microbiology methods and amplicon metagenomic sequencing.

Documents

Scanning report WP4 Y1 (English)

Details

Activity type

Publication of EIP-AGRI practitioner abstract

Activity work package

Fruit quality; improvement of fruit handling/storage

Activity number

Agroscope-WP4-A16

Activity contact

Dr. Andreas Bühlmann

Agroscope
Schloss 1
Postfach
8820 Wädenswil
Schweiz

Tel. +41 58 460 64 24
[email protected]

Activity partner

AGROSCOPE

Activity country

Switzerland

Last edit

24-07-2019