Biological Control of Citrus Postharvest Phytopathogens
Jaqueline Moraes Bazioli 1,2, João Raul Belinato 1, Jonas Henrique Costa 1, Daniel Yuri Akiyama 1, João Guilherme de Moraes Pontes 1
, Katia Cristina Kupper 3, Fabio Augusto 1, João Ernesto de Carvalho 2 and Taícia Pacheco Fill 1,*
, Katia Cristina Kupper 3, Fabio Augusto 1, João Ernesto de Carvalho 2 and Taícia Pacheco Fill 1,*
1
Institute of Chemistry, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP 6154, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
2
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859 Campinas, SP, Brazil
3
Instituto Agronômico de Campinas (IAC), 13490-970 Cordeiropolis, SP, Brazil
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Toxins 2019, 11(8), 460; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins11080460
Received: 11 July 2019 / Revised: 24 July 2019 / Accepted: 25 July 2019 / Published: 6 August 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches to Minimising Mycotoxin Contamination)
Abstract
Citrus are vulnerable to the postharvest decay caused by Penicillium digitatum, Penicillium italicum, and Geotrichum citri-aurantii, which are responsible for the green mold, blue mold, and sour rot post-harvest disease, respectively. The widespread economic losses in citriculture caused by these phytopathogens are minimized with the use of synthetic fungicides such as imazalil, thiabendazole, pyrimethanil, and fludioxonil, which are mainly employed as control agents and may have harmful effects on human health and environment. To date, numerous non-chemical postharvest treatments have been investigated for the control of these pathogens. Several studies demonstrated that biological control using microbial antagonists and natural products can be effective in controlling postharvest diseases in citrus, as well as the most used commercial fungicides. Therefore, microbial agents represent a considerably safer and low toxicity alternative to synthetic fungicides. In the present review, these biological control strategies as alternative to the chemical fungicides are summarized here and new challenges regarding the development of shelf-stable formulated biocontrol products are also discussed. View Full-TextKeywords:
biological control; post-harvest phytopathogen; Penicillium digitatum; Penicillium italicum; Geothrichum citri-aurantii
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Moraes Bazioli, J.; Belinato, J.R.; Costa, J.H.; Akiyama, D.Y.; Pontes, J.G.M.; Kupper, K.C.; Augusto, F.; de Carvalho, J.E.; Fill, T.P. Biological Control of Citrus Postharvest Phytopathogens. Toxins 2019, 11, 460.
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