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This book presents a comprehensive study of the handling of fresh fruits in the developing world from harvesting to the shelf. With annual losses ranging from 30-40% due to lack of knowledge on proper handling practices and value addition, this book's information on postharvest handling and quality testing is crucial for reducing these losses and improving the quality and safety of fresh fruits in these areas. With its added focus on marketing and organized retail aspects, Postharvest Quality Assurance of Fruits: Practical Approaches for Developing Countries covers the entire range of fruit handling, from transportation and packaging to quality assessment and commercial preparation. In presenting a fully comprehensive outline of the factors affecting postharvest quality and marketability of fruits, this work lays the foundation for understanding the proper storage, transportation and packaging methods to prevent losses and increase quality. With its study of prevailing marketing systems, supply chains and retail methods, the book presents the complete picture for the postharvest handling of fruits in the developing world.

Biomedical Engineering --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Fruit --- Postharvest losses --- Prevention. --- Postharvest physiology. --- Quality. --- Fruit quality --- Fruits --- Pomology --- Chemistry. --- Microbiology. --- Food --- Organic chemistry. --- Food Science. --- Applied Microbiology. --- Organic Chemistry. --- Biotechnology. --- Food crops --- Horticultural crops --- Horticultural products --- Plants --- Food science. --- Chemistry, Organic. --- Microbial biology --- Biology --- Microorganisms --- Science --- Organic chemistry --- Chemistry --- Food—Biotechnology.

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This comprehensive treatise provides insight into pigment biosynthesis and dietetics. The text includes current reviews on the genomics of carotenoid, flavonoid, and betalain biosynthesis in plants and the dietetics of these pigments in humans. Pigments biosynthesized in plants are a source of attractive colors in nature and essential nutrients in our daily fruit, vegetable, and grain diet.   Deciphered from general perspectives and specific fruits and vegetables, genomics focuses on enzymatic genes and regulatory molecular mechanisms in the biosynthesis pathways to produce these pigments in plants. Dietetics focuses on the nutritional and medical benefits to human health from these pigments as nutrients, nutraceuticals, and disease prevention agents when they are ingested from pigment-abundant plant food and metabolized in human body. This work contributes to an expanding awareness of the dietetic benefits to the daily consumption of  pigment-rich fruit, vegetable, and grain food.

Life Sciences. --- Plant Genetics & Genomics. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Nutrition. --- Chemistry/Food Science, general. --- Life sciences. --- Chemistry. --- Biochemistry. --- Plant breeding. --- Sciences de la vie --- Chimie --- Nutrition --- Biochimie --- Plantes --- Amélioration --- Plant pigments --- Biosynthesis --- Dietetics --- Biology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Genetics --- Fruit --- Vegetables --- Genomics. --- Dietetics. --- Color. --- Genome mapping. --- Genome research --- Genomes --- Fruits --- Pomology --- Color of fruit --- Research --- Plant biochemistry. --- Plant genetics. --- Molecular genetics --- Food crops --- Horticultural crops --- Horticultural products --- Food --- Plants --- Color of food --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Physical sciences --- Alimentation --- Health --- Physiology --- Diet --- Digestion --- Food habits --- Malnutrition --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Health aspects --- Composition --- Nutrition   . --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Botany --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics