Horticultural Engineering

 Product safety

 

Acetic acid vapour treatment

Investigations of effectiveness of acetic acid vapour treatment in preventing produce loss caused by fungi and bacteria

Perspex box for strawberry treatmant with AA vapour to reduce B. cinerea

Strawberries infected by mould

 

Flow cytometry

Characterisation of morphological and physiological bacterial properties to evaluate inactivation effects of treatments
Flow cytometer Cytomics FC 500 Schematic view

 

Ozonization

Investigations to minimize human- and phytopathogen micro organisms on fruit and vegetables

Ozone generator

Photometric measurement of ozone concentration in water

 

High pressure treatment

Impact of high pressure treatment on fresh plant systems

Growth, harvesting and high pressure treatment of the samples

Determination of stress response using chlorophyll-fluorescence-image-analysis from top to bottom:
untreated, 5h and 24h after pressure treatment of 150 MPa

 

UV-Irradiation

Investigations to minimize spoilage of vegetables

Carrots inoculated by T. basicola

UV-irradiation of carrots

 

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