Browsing by Author "Siddiqui, Mohammed Wasim"

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    POSTHARVEST MANAGEMENT AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY OF MUSHROOMS
    (Taylor and Francis, 2016) Yadav, M.K.; Kumar, Santosh; Chandra, Ram; Biswas, S.K.; Dhakad, P.K.; Siddiqui, Mohammed Wasim
    The global food and nutritional security of growing population is a great challenge, which looks for new crop as source of food and nutrition. In this context, mushrooms find a favor, which can be grown even by landless people, that too on waste material and could be a source for proteinous food. Use of mushrooms as food and nutraceutical have been known since time immemorial, as is evident from the description in old epics Vedas and Bible. Earlier civilizations had also valued mushrooms for delicacy and therapeutic value. In the present time, it is well recognized that mushroom is not only rich in protein, but also contains vitamins and minerals, whereas, it lacks cholesterol and has low calories. Furthermore, it also has high medicinal attributes like immune-modulating, antiviral, antitumor, antioxidants and hepatoprotective properties. With the growing awareness for nutritive and quality food by growing health conscious population, the demand for food including mushrooms is quickly rising and will continue to rise with increase in global population which will be 8.3 million by 2025 and flexible income (Singh, 2011). The mushroom cultivation has grown up in almost all the parts of the world and during last three decades, the world mushroom production achieved the growth rate of about 10%. Globally, China is the leading producer of mushrooms with more than 70% of the total global production, which is attributed to community, based farming as well as diversification of mushrooms. In India, owing to varied agro-climate and abundance of farm waste, different types of temperate, tropical and subtropical mushrooms are cultivated throughout the country. © 2017 by Apple Academic Press, Inc.
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    Training and Pruning for Improved Postharvest Fruit Quality
    (Elsevier Inc., 2018) Sharma, Swati; Barman, Kalyan; Siddiqui, Mohammed Wasim; Nath, Vishal
    The postharvest fruit quality depends on the maintenance and health of the fruit trees in orchard. The various preharvest operations, such as irrigation, training, pruning, fertilizer application, spray of various plant growth regulators, insecticides, and pesticides are the deciding factors that regulate the ultimate quality of the fruits during postharvest handling and storage. Training is done to achieve the desirable shape and form of the trees while pruning is mainly done to obtain quality fruit production. Training and pruning operations are essential in perennial fruit crops to optimize the light distribution, minimize the insect pest and diseases attack and for production of fruits of optimum quality. Training and pruning operations play a significant role in obtaining regular and prolific quality fruit production. The size, color, nutritional quality, and postharvest shelf life of fruits are all significantly affected by the training and pruning operations done during the preharvest stages in orchard. This chapter provides an insight into the basics of training and pruning systems and how they affect the postharvest fruit quality. © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.