Affiliation:
1. Tree Fruit Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wenatchee, Washington 98801
Abstract
Alternatives to hypochlorous acid and fungicides are needed for treatment of fruit and fruit-handling facilities. Chlorine dioxide was evaluated and found effective against common postharvest decay fungi and against filamentous fungi occurring on fruit packinghouse surfaces. In vitro tests with conidial or sporangiospore suspensions of
Botrytis cinerea, Penicillium expansum, Mucor piriformis
, and
Cryptosporiopsis perennans
demonstrated >99% spore mortality within 1 min when the fungi were exposed to aqueous chlorine dioxide at 3 or 5 μg · ml
-1
. Longer exposure times were necessary to achieve similar spore mortalities with 1 μg · ml
-1
. Of the fungi tested,
B. cinerea
and
P. expansum
were the least sensitive to ClO
2
. In comparison with the number recovered from untreated control areas, the number of filamentous fungi recovered was significantly lower in swipe tests from hard surfaces such as belts and pads in a commercial apple and pear packinghouse after treatment of surfaces with a 14.0- to 18.0-μg · ml
-1
ClO
2
foam formulation. Chlorine dioxide has desirable properties as a sanitizing agent for postharvest decay management when residues of postharvest fungicides are not desired or allowed.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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