Heat treatments for postharvest pest control : theory and practice /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Insect pests > Effect of temperature on.; Insect pests > Control.; Food storage pests > Control.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Other Control Measures.; Crop Produce.; Storage Problems and Pests of Food.; Insects.; Heat.; Heat transfer.; Heat treatment.; Hot air treatment.; Hot water treatment.; Insect control.; Insect pests.; Pest control.; Plant pathogens.; Postharvest decay.; Quarantine.; Stored products.; Stored products pests.; Temperature.; Electronic books.
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This book, which consists of 13 chapters, provides fundamental and up-to-date published information on thermal treatments for the management of postharvest pests associated with agricultural commodity structures. Specific topics that are covered include: (i) regulatory issues for quarantine and phyt...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / J.D. Hansen and J.A. Johnson
• Fundamental Heat Transfer Theory for Thermal Treatments / J. Tang and S. Wang
• Temperature Measurement / J. Tang and S. Wang
• Physiological Responses of Agricultural Commodities to Heat Treatments / S. Lurie and E.J. Mitcham
• Experimental and Simulation Methods of Insect Thermal Death Kinetics / S. Wang, J. Tang and J.D. Hansen
• Biology and Thermal Death Kinetics of Selected Insects / J. Tang, S. Wang and J.A. Johnson
• Thermal Control of Fungi in the Reduction of Postharvest Decay / E. Fallik and S. Lurie
• Disinfestation of Stored Products and Associated Structures Using Heat / S.J. Beckett, P.G. Fields and Bh. Subramanyam
• Considerations for Phytosanitary Heat Treatment Research / G.J. Hallman
• Heat with Controlled Atmospheres / E.J. Mitcham
• The Influence of Heat Shock Proteins on Insect Pests and Fruits in Thermal Treatments / S. Lurie and E. Jang
• Thermal Treatment Protocol Development and Scale-up / J. Tang, S. Wang and J.W. Armstrong
• Commercial Quarantine Heat Treatments / J.W. Armstrong and R.L. Mangan.