
%0 Journal Article
%A Jacobi, KK 
%A Wong, LS 
%A Giles, JE 
%T Effect of hot air disinfestation treatment in combination with simulated air freight conditions on quality of 'Kensington' mango (<I>Mangifera indica</I> Linn.
%J Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
%D 1996/10/01
%V 36
%N 6
%P 739-745
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/EA9960739
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/EA9960739 
%X The quality of 'Kensington' mangoes (Mangifera indica Linn.) from 2 major Queensland production regions was evaluated following a hot air [HAT, also known as vapour heat (VHT)] disinfestation treatment (46.5¦C seed surface temperature held for 10 min under conditions of high humidity) combined with a disease control treatment (55¦C water for 5 min) prior to HAT, and storage conditions likely to be encountered during air shipment to Japan (either 10¦C for 5 days plus 22¦C for 5 days, or 13¦C for 5 days plus 22¦C for 5 days, or 22¦C for 10 days). Final quality was optimum if fruit were treated with HAT alone and stored at 22¦C. Fruit injury, in the form of skin browning and lenticel spotting, was particularly severe in HAT plus disease controI fruit stored at 10/22¦C. Storage at 10¦C combined with heat treatments may be too stressful to fruit physiology, leading to fruit injury and reduced fruit quality at the market destination. 
