Abstract
Mango has a high global demand. Fruit fungal disease causes post-harvest mango and fruit losses. Conventional chemical fungicides and plastic prevent fungal diseases but they are hazardous to humans and the environment. Direct application of essential oil for post-harvest fruit control is not a cost-effective approach. The current work offers an eco-friendly alternative to controlling the post-harvest disease of fruit using a film amalgamated with oil derived from Melaleuca alternifolia. Further, this research also aimed to assess the mechanical, antioxidant, and antifungal properties of the film infused with essential oil. ASTM D882 was performed to determine the tensile strength of the film. The antioxidant reaction of the film was assessed using the DPPH assay. In vitro and in vivo tests were used to evaluate the inhibitory development of the film against pathogenic fungi, by comparing the film with different levels of essential oil together with the treatment of the control and chemical fungicide. Disk diffusion was used to evaluate mycelial growth inhibition, where the film incorporated with 1.2 wt% essential oil yielded the best results. For in vivo testing of wounded mango, the disease incidence was successfully reduced. For in vivo testing of unwounded mango to which the film incorporated with essential oil was applied, although some quality parameters such as the color index were not significantly affected, weight loss was reduced, soluble solid content was increased, and firmness was increased, compared to the control. Thus, the film incorporated with essential oil (EO) from M. alternifolia can be an environmentally friendly alternative to the conventional approach and the direct application of essential oil to control post-harvest disease in mango.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
The film with 1.2 wt% essential oil gives the best inhibition of mycelial growth.
- Taxon
- Mango
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Mangifera indicae0 - Treatment
- film incorporated with 1.2 wt% essential oile1
- Outcome
- mycelial growth inhibitione1
- Direction
- yielded the best resultse1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Mango has a high global demand”
e1“Disk diffusion was used to evaluate mycelial growth inhibition, where the film incorporated with 1.2 wt% essential oil yielded the best results”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential-oil film reduces disease incidence on wounded mango.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae2
- Treatment
- film incorporated with essential oile4
- Outcome
- disease incidencee2
- Direction
- reducede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e2“For in vivo testing of wounded mango, the disease incidence was successfully reduced”
e4“Thus, the film incorporated with essential oil (EO) from M. alternifolia can be an environmentally friendly alternative to the conventional approach and the direct application of essential oil to control post-harvest disease in mango”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential-oil film does not significantly change the color index of unwounded mango compared with control.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae3
- Treatment
- film incorporated with essential oile3
- Outcome
- color indexe3
- Direction
- not significantly affectede3
- Comparator
- controle3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“For in vivo testing of unwounded mango to which the film incorporated with essential oil was applied, although some quality parameters such as the color index were not significantly affected, weight loss was reduced, soluble solid content was increased, and firmness was increased, compared to the control”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential-oil film reduces weight loss of unwounded mango compared with control.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae3
- Treatment
- film incorporated with essential oile3
- Outcome
- weight losse3
- Direction
- reducede3
- Comparator
- controle3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“For in vivo testing of unwounded mango to which the film incorporated with essential oil was applied, although some quality parameters such as the color index were not significantly affected, weight loss was reduced, soluble solid content was increased, and firmness was increased, compared to the control”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential-oil film increases soluble solid content of unwounded mango compared with control.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae3
- Treatment
- film incorporated with essential oile3
- Outcome
- soluble solid contente3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Comparator
- controle3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“For in vivo testing of unwounded mango to which the film incorporated with essential oil was applied, although some quality parameters such as the color index were not significantly affected, weight loss was reduced, soluble solid content was increased, and firmness was increased, compared to the control”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential-oil film increases firmness of unwounded mango compared with control.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae3
- Treatment
- film incorporated with essential oile3
- Outcome
- firmnesse3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Comparator
- controle3
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“For in vivo testing of unwounded mango to which the film incorporated with essential oil was applied, although some quality parameters such as the color index were not significantly affected, weight loss was reduced, soluble solid content was increased, and firmness was increased, compared to the control”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential-oil film can be an eco-friendly alternative for controlling post-harvest disease of mango.
- Taxon
- mangoMangifera indicae4
- Outcome
- post-harvest diseasee4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e4“Thus, the film incorporated with essential oil (EO) from M. alternifolia can be an environmentally friendly alternative to the conventional approach and the direct application of essential oil to control post-harvest disease in mango”
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