HOS 5085C
Supplemental Reading (general resources):
Exams
Research Project Instructions
Example Student Projects
- Example Time-lapse:
Lectures
- Introduction - Postharvest Deterioration & Losses
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 4; Wills Ch. 1
- 2020 Lecture
- Morphology, structure, growth & development
- Printable notes handout
- Sample questions
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 4; Wills Ch. 2; Kays & Paull Ch. 2
- 2020 Lecture
- Composition 1
- Composition 2
- Ethylene & Plant Hormones 1
- Printable notes handout
- Sample questions
- Supplemental Reading: Bartz & Brecht Ch. 3; Bartz & Brecht Ch. 10
- 2020 Lecture
- Ethylene & Plant Hormones 2
- Respiration 1
- Respiration 2
- Transpiration & Water Loss
- Printable notes handout
- Time Lapse Videos:
- Sample questions
- Online Psychrometric Calculator 1
- Online Psychrometric Calculator 2
- Supplemental Reading: Bartz & Brecht Ch. 5
- 2020 Lecture
- Physiological Disorders
- Printable notes handout
- Sample questions
- Supplemental Reading: Wills Ch. 8; Bartz & Brecht Ch. 19
- 2020 Lecture
- Pathology 1
- Pathology 2
- Maturity & Quality Standards
- Food Safety
- Quarantine Treatments
- Harvest & Handling Systems
- Printable notes handout
- Sample questions
- Supplemental Reading: Packingline Machinery for Citrus Packinghouses
- Supplemental Reading: Bartz & Brecht Ch. 16
- Orange Harvest Video
- Mango Harvest Video
- Cooling & Temperature Management
- Printable notes handout
- Sample questions
- Supplemental Reading: Bartz & Brecht Ch. 8; Kader Ch. 11
- Commercial Storage - CA & MA
- Printable notes handout
- Sample questions
- Supplemental Reading: Bartz & Brecht Ch. 9; Wills Ch. 6; Wills Ch. 7
- Transportation & Distribution
- Subtropical Fruits
- Printable notes handout
- Sample questions - Covers all remaining lectures
- Overview of Commodity Requirements
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 20
- Videos: Harvesting Avocado
- Tropical Fruits
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 31
- Banana Harvest & Packing Video
- Banana Packing Vidoe
- Small Fruit
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 29
- Postharvest fact sheet from Canada
- Pome & Stone Fruits
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 27; Kader Ch. 28
- Vegetables - Leafy Vegetables
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 34; Bartz & Brecht Ch. 25
- Vegetative - Storage Vegetables
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 35; Bartz & Brecht Ch. 26
- Vegetables - Immature & Mature Fruits
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 33; Bartz & Brecht Ch. 27; Bartz & Brecht Ch. 28
- Fresh-cut Vegetables & Fruits
- Printable notes handout
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 36; Bartz & Brecht Ch. 29
- Food Safety Links:
-FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
-Produce Safety Rule
-Preventive Controls for Human Food
- Ornamentals
- Printable notes handout
- Ornamental Summary Sheet
- Supplemental Reading: Kader Ch. 25