Effects of post-harvest treatment using chitosan from Mucor circinelloides on fungal pathogenicity and quality of table grapes during storage.pdf.pdf

Food Microbiology 44 (2014) 211e219
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Effects of post-harvest treatment using chitosan from Mucor
circinelloides on fungal pathogenicity and quality of table grapes
during storage
Carlos Eduardo Vasconcelos de Oliveira a, Marciane Magnani b,
Camila Veríssimo de Sales a, Alline Lima de Souza Pontes b, Galba Maria Campos-Takaki c,
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Thayza Christina Montenegro Stamford d, Evandro Leite de Souza a,
a Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Department of Nutrition, Center of Health Sciences, Federal University of Paraíba, Joao~ Pessoa, Brazil
b Laboratory of Biochemistry of Foods, Center of Technology, Federal University of Paraíba, Joao~ Pessoa, Brazil
c Nucleus of Research in Environmental Sciences, Catholic University of Pernambuco Recife, Brazil
d Laboratoty of Microbiology, Department of Tropical Medicine, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
article info abstract
Article history: The aim of this study was to extract chitosan (CHI) from Mucor circinelloides UCP 050 grown in a corn
Received 17 November 2013 steep liquor (CSL)-based medium under optimized conditions and to assess the efficacy of the obtained
Received in revised form CHI to inhibit the post-harvest pathogenic fungi Aspergillus niger URM 5162 and Rhizopus stolonifer URM
10 April 2014
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