USE OF CARVACROL HELPS MAINTAIN POSTHARVEST QUALITY OF RED GLOBE TABLE GRAPE.

Keywords: Essential oil; carvacrol; Red Globe; quality; postharvest treatment EN Essential oil carvacrol Red Globe quality postharvest treatment INTRODUCTION Grape is an important fruit crop cultivated on a large scale in Turkey as well as in the world. Compared with the other treatments, SSC contents of 100 l carvacrol treated grapes at 60 days storage time were the highest, and untreated control grape at 100 days storage time were the lowest (Fig 1D). Untreated grape fruit at 100 days storage time was the highest respiration rate values and the lowest values were obtained 250 l and 1000 l carvacrol treated grapes. The highest a* value was 6.01 with 100 l carvacrol treated grape while the lowest a* values were 3.03 with 250 l carvacrol and 3.58 with 1000 l carvacrol treatments. [Extracted from the article]