An overview of plant-based natural biostimulants for sustainable horticulture with a particular focus on moringa leaf extracts

F Zulfiqar, A Casadesús, H Brockman, S Munné-Bosch - Plant Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The horticulture sector is facing various challenges in the near future. Aside from
maintaining or even improving yields, sustainable horticulture production is crucial to …

Plant-based edible coatings for managing postharvest quality of fresh horticultural produce: A review

K Ncama, LS Magwaza, A Mditshwa… - Food packaging and shelf …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fresh fruit and vegetables continue with biological activities after harvest, resulting in
continuous loss of water and solutes, and gaseous exchanges with surrounding …

Improvement of quality and shelf-life of strawberries with edible coatings enriched with chitosan

NB Gol, PR Patel, TVR Rao - Postharvest Biology and Technology, 2013 - Elsevier
Strawberry fruit have a very short shelf-life and senescent period due to their high degree of
perishability and infection caused by several pathogens that can rapidly reduce fruit quality …

[HTML][HTML] Combating salinity through natural plant extracts based biostimulants: a review

A Ahmad, B Blasco, V Martos - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Enhanced crop growth and yield are the recurring concerns in agricultural field, considering
the soaring world population and climate change. Abiotic stresses are one of the major …

Evaluating the efficacy of moringa leaf extract, chitosan and carboxymethyl cellulose as edible coatings for enhancing quality and extending postharvest life of …

SZ Tesfay, LS Magwaza - Food Packaging and Shelf Life, 2017 - Elsevier
This experiment was conducted to investigate a novel moringa leaf extract, together with
commercially available edible coatings, namely, chitosan and carboxymethyl cellulose …

Effect of gum Arabic, xanthan and carrageenan coatings containing antimicrobial agent on postharvest quality of strawberry: Assessing the physicochemical, enzyme …

SM Wani, A Gull, T Ahad, AR Malik, TA Ganaie… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Effect of edible coatings of gum Arabic, carrageenan and xanthan gum containing
lemon grass essential oil 1% w/v on postharvest quality of strawberry was studied under …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of a gum arabic-based edible coating on guava fruit characteristics during storage

SF El-Gioushy, MFM Abdelkader, MH Mahmoud… - Coatings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Guava is a nutritious fruit that has perishable behavior during storage. We aimed to
determine the influences of some edible coatings (namely, cactus pear stem (10%), moringa …

Edible coatings enriched with plant-based extracts preserve postharvest quality of fruits: A review

K Bajaj, T Adhikary, PPS Gill, A Kumar - Progress in Organic Coatings, 2023 - Elsevier
After the harvest of fruit, various physiological processes, including transpiration and
respiration occur which causes significant losses in fruit quality during transportation and …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the efficacy of edible coatings incorporated with moringa leaf extract on postharvest of 'Maluma'avocado fruit quality and its biofungicidal effect

SF Kubheka, SZ Tesfay, A Mditshwa, LS Magwaza - HortScience, 2020 - journals.ashs.org
This study investigated the efficacy of edible gum arabic (GA) and carboxymethyl cellulose
(CMC) containing moringa (M) leaf extract as postharvest treatments for maintaining …

[HTML][HTML] Next generation edible nanoformulations for improving post-harvest shelf-life of citrus fruits

N Kumar, A Upadhyay, S Shukla, VK Bajpai… - Journal of Food …, 2024 - Springer
Citrus is one of the most widely grown fruits globally, because of its remarkable organoleptic
features, nutritional content and bioactive ingredients. Microbial spoilage and other factors …