Co-Authors:
Afek, U., Dept. Postharvest Sci. Fresh Produce, Agricultural Research Organization, Gilat Experiment Station, Mobile Post Negev 2, 85280, Israel, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, No. 414-98, Israel
Orenstein, J., Dept. Postharvest Sci. Fresh Produce, Agricultural Research Organization, Gilat Experiment Station, Mobile Post Negev 2, 85280, Israel, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, No. 414-98, Israel
Nuriel, E., Dept. Postharvest Sci. Fresh Produce, Agricultural Research Organization, Gilat Experiment Station, Mobile Post Negev 2, 85280, Israel, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, No. 414-98, Israel
Abstract:
Sweet potatoes [Impomoea batatas (L.) Lam], cv. 'Georgia Jet' can be showed for 5 months by disinfecting the roots inside the storage rooms by means of fogging with 1% iprodione (a systemic fungicide), applied with the Tabor Atomizing System combined with the curing procedure. The percent decay after 5 months of storage, which followed this combined treatment, was 5%, compared with 61% in the non-treated control. The percentage of potato (Solanum tuberosum) decay caused by Erwinia carotovora subspecies carotovora after 5 months of storage, following disinfecting the tubers by fogging the storage rooms with Compound P via the Tabor Atomizing System, was 4%, compared with 26% in the non-treated control.