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Title: Extending the postharvest life of carnations with nitric oxide - comparison of fumigation and in vivo delivery
Author/Creator: Bowyer, M. C.; Wills, R. B.; Badiyan, D.; Ku, V. V. V.
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Description: The ability of nitric oxide (NO) to extend the postharvest life at 20°C of carnations (Dianthus caryophyllus L.cv. White-Sim) was investigated using delivery by gas-based fumigation and in vivo release via a solution containing the NO donor compound 2,2´-(hydroxynitrosohydrazino)-bisethanamine (DETA/NO). Treatment with NO gas in air at 1 and 5 μll⁻¹ produced about a 30% increase in postharvest life while DETA/NO applied in solution at 10 mg l⁻¹ extended postharvest life by about 50% when dissolved in water. For flowers, use of solid delivery appears to offer a more convenient and more effective method of NO treatment than gaseous fumigation to extend postharvest life.
Relation: Postharvest Biology and Technology Vol. 30, Issue 3, p. 281-286
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-5214(03)00114-5
Date: 2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Keyword(s): nitric oxide; carnation flowers; diazeniumdiolate; postharvest life
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44550
Identifier: ISSN:0925-5214

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