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Mango is one of the most popular fruits all over the world due to its attractive taste, odor, and nutritional properties. As more people become aware of the many health benefits linked with fruits, their consumption of veggies and fruits has increased. However, the challenge that faces the fresh-cut market is maintaining the food's freshness for a long time after it has been cut. The fruit loses its quality fast as a consequence of an infection with several different fungal diseases. These infections cause deterioration while the fruit is being stored or marketed and reduce the overall quality of the fruit. For the last few decades, there has been an increase in fascination with the creation of materials that have the potential to create films and antimicrobial activities, both of which help to promote food security and storage stability. In this context, the present research aims to develop methods for extending the post-harvest shelf life of mango using silver nanoparticles. Leveraging the functional properties of glucose oxidase, our innovative antimicrobial strategy for prolonging the shelf life of fruit is based on the production of a fine coating of hydrogen peroxide at the food's surface. This layer acts as a barrier against the growth of microorganisms (GOx). After the enzyme was extracted from Aspergillus niger and processed, it was immobilized on nanostructures of silver and then placed in a buffer to create a spray solution of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). The spray showed significant prolonging in the shelf life of mango, as evident from fruit quality parameters such as pH, DPPH activity, TSS, and weight loss. A notable difference was observed in these parameters when compared with control and treated fruits. In fact, we have arrived at a novel technique for this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the summer of 2008, the fat dormouse (Glis glis Linnaeus 1766), pest animal in the Langhe agricultural territory (Province of Cuneo, Italy), was studied with the aim of understanding its night invasion and feeding exploitation capacity on hazel orchards, in order to assess the resulting loss of marketable hazelnuts. Using 9 hazel orchards as study samples, dormice density, damage in cultivations and exploitation time were calculated and the results obtained were correlated. Damages happened mainly between July (when fruits start to grow) and late August (when fruits are harvested). Density (estimated by 18 nocturnal survey sessions) reached values between 4.13 and 247 vocalizing animals/hectare in the central hours of the night. The fruits loss, evaluated taking into consideration 33 plots placed inside the cultivations, accounted for 61% of the total of collected hazelnuts. Density and damage values were connected with the physical features of hazel orchards, their position in relation to wooded areas and the study period.