HOS 4332C & 5085C
Supplemental Reading (general resources):
- USDA Handbook 66
- Small-Scale Postharvest Handling Practices: A Manual for Horticultural Crops (4th Edition)
- Produce Fact Sheets (UC, Davis)
- Fruit growth, ripening & post-harvest physiology
Exams
Midterm I
Discussion Session Recordings
Lectures
- Introduction - Postharvest Deterioration & Losses
- Morphology, structure, growth & development
- Composition
- Ethylene & Plant Hormones
- Respiration
- Transpiration & Water Loss
- Physiological Disorders
- Pathology
- Maturity & Quality Standards
- Food Safety
- Quarantine Treatments
- Harvest & Handling Systems
- Cooling & Temperature Management
- Commercial Storage - CA & MA
- Transportation & Distribution
- Tropical Fruits
- Subtropical Fruits
- Small Fruit
- Pome & Stone Fruits
- Vegetables - Leafy Vegetables
- Vegetative - Storage Vegetables
- Vegetables - Immature & Mature Fruits
- Fresh-cut Vegetables & Fruits
- Ornamentals