scholarly journals ASSESSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR COLD STORAGE FACILITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Veronica O. Vakhrusheva ◽  
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Elena A. Vakhrusheva ◽  
Natalya V. Grinkrug ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Cold Storage ◽  
Storage Facility

Genetic diversity and potential inoculum sources of Fusarium species causing cankers in bareroot-propagated almond trees in California nurseries

Plant Disease ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Justine Stack ◽  
Stephen Mark Marek ◽  
Thomas Gordon ◽  
Richard M. Bostock
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
Fusarium Species ◽  
Storage Facility ◽  
Clonal Lineage ◽  
Fusarium Spp ◽  
Inoculum Sources ◽  
Canker Disease ◽  
Fusarium Acuminatum ◽  
Almond Trees ◽  
Rotation Crops

Previous research determined that Fusarium acuminatum and Fusarium avenaceum are important causal agents of a canker disease in bareroot-propagated fruit and nut trees in California that emerges during cold-storage or after transplanting. The disease largely disappeared after 2001, but it reemerged in 2011 in almond trees in at least one nursery. This motivated further study of the etiology and epidemiology of the disease by undertaking studies to determine distribution of the pathogens throughout almond nursery propagation systems and trace possible sources of inoculum. Research initiated in 2013 detected pathogenic Fusarium spp. throughout the almond propagation system, including in healthy trees, in soils, on wheat rotation crops, on equipment, and in the cold storage facility air. In addition to the two Fusarium spp. implicated previously, Fusarium brachygibbosum and a new Fusarium species, Fusarium californicum, were found to be pathogenic on almond trees. Multi-locus sequence typing and somatic compatibility testing confirmed that isolates within a species collected from different materials in the nursery were all highly genetically similar and likely of one clonal lineage. These findings affirm that equipment surfaces, wheat rotation crops, soil, cold storage facility air, and asymptomatic almond tree materials (i.e., rootstock cuttings, budwood, and scions) can potentially contribute inoculum to increase disease prevalence and severity.

Environmental Impact of an Industrial Kitchen: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Dai ◽  
A. S. Fleischer ◽  
A. P. Wemhoff ◽  
R. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Cold Storage ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Energy Flow ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Environmental Impact Categories ◽  
Tomato Soup

The large number of industrial kitchens and their energy-intense characteristics provides opportunities for pollution prevention. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a proper tool not only for unitizing the environmental impact of the complex system of an industrial kitchen, but also for making environmental food labels for the foods produced in the same industrial kitchen. In this study, a gate-to-gate LCA of 11 types of food was conducted to evaluate the environmental impact of a typical industrial kitchen, Villanova University’s Donahue Hall. First, material and energy flow data, including cold storage, food preparation, food display, lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), and dish washing were collected. This data, along with standard data on energy generation and transmission, were used in the LCA. The results show that global warming, fossil fuel depletion and ecotoxicity are the main environmental impact categories. Furthermore, HVAC, cold storage and cooking are the three largest contributors of environmental burden. Using the metrics developed, tuna salad, tomato soup and pasta are the most environmental friendly foods of the 11 sampled food types, while pizza and cheese quesadillas have the worst environmental performance. Energy saving measures for HVAC, cold storage and cooking are proposed.

scholarly journals The feasibility of a cold storage facility for fish in Aceh during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 674 (1) ◽  
pp. 012047
Author(s):  
H Fahlevi ◽  
S Chan ◽  
P Hasibuan ◽  
N Fadli ◽  
S Edhy Sofyan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
Storage Facility

scholarly journals GEOSPATIAL PERSPECTIVE FOR POST-HARVEST INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT: POSITIONING OF NEW COLD STORAGE

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W6 ◽  
pp. 339-344
Author(s):  
P. Vijjapu ◽  
M. M. Kimothi ◽  
S. Roy ◽  
S. Mamatha ◽  
S. S. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
Potato Production ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Infrastructure Management ◽  
Storage Facility ◽  
Post Harvest ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Crop Area ◽  
Bihar State

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The deficiency in post-harvest infrastructure leads to loss of agricultural produce which in turn affects farmer’s income and food security. So, there is a need to improve post-harvest infrastructure in the country. Potato is a major horticultural crop requiring cold storage facility. This study was carried out for Bihar state of India, which has the least ratio of storage capacity to potato production in comparison to other states. An approach has been developed to identify the suitable locations for cold storages using geospatial technology to increase accessibility to cold storage facilities. Temporal variations in vegetation profiles were used to generate crop maps and from this crop area proportions were calculated at village level. These proportions were used to identify significant village clusters contributing to horticulture production. From this priority villages were identified. These priority villages were assigned to nearest major settlement which will be the sites for positioning new cold storage facility. The approach developed in this study has identified 63 locations in 17 districts for developing new cold storage facility. The proposed new locations for cold storages will reduce the distance to nearest cold storage for 14244 villages and this reduction in distance will be more than 8 kms for 9774 villages. Thus, the study validated the role of Remote Sensing and GIS for post-harvest infrastructure planning.</p>

scholarly journals First Report of Neofusicoccum ribis Causing Postharvest Decay of Apple Fruit from Cold Storage in Pennsylvania

Plant Disease ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 97 (7) ◽  
pp. 999-999
Author(s):  
W. M. Jurick ◽  
I. Vico ◽  
V. L. Gaskins ◽  
W. J. Janisiewicz ◽  
K. A. Peter
Keyword(s):  
Cold Storage ◽  
Microscopic Investigation ◽  
Apple Fruit ◽  
Storage Facility ◽  
First Report ◽  
Postharvest Decay ◽  
Application Rates ◽  
White Mycelium ◽  
Stem Cankers ◽  
Mycelial Suspension

Neofusicoccum ribis (Slippers, Crous & M.J. Wingf.), previously known as Botryosphaeria ribis (Grossenb. & Duggar), is an aggressive fungal plant pathogen that is part of the N. ribis/N. parvum species complex that causes stem cankers on a variety of woody plant species (2). An isolate of N. ribis was obtained from decayed ‘Honeycrisp’ apple fruit from a commercial cold storage facility located in Pennsylvania in October of 2011. The decayed apple fruit sample had a brownish lesion that was soft, dry, and leathery on the surface while sporulation was not evident. To conduct Koch's postulates, three ‘Golden Delicious’ apple fruits were wound-inoculated with a 50-μl mycelial suspension, obtained from aseptically scraping a 7-day-old potato dextrose agar (PDA) culture of the fungus, and was repeated using ‘Fuji’ apple fruit. The inoculated fruit developed lesions, while water-inoculated fruit were symptomless after 5 days at 20°C. N. ribis was reisolated from infected tissue and was morphologically identical to the original isolate. Genomic DNA was isolated, a portion of the β-tubulin gene was amplified with the gene specific primers, and the amplicon was sequenced and analyzed using BLAST (1). The nucleotide sequence (GenBank Accession No. KC47853) had 99% identity with N. ribis SEGA8 isolate (JN607146.1). The N. ribis isolate produced a grayish-white mycelium with abundant aerial hyphae on PDA and had an olive-colored reverse. Microscopic investigation revealed septate mycelia with right angle branching and conidiomata were not evident on PDA, V8, oatmeal agar (OMA), or water agar (WA). Growth on WA was sparse and transparent, and aerial mycelial growth was not produced. Growth rate analyses were conducted on PDA, V8, and OMA and were 10.1 (±1.39), 20.4 (±1.15), and 17.6 (±0.70) mm/day at 20°C and the experiment was repeated. The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for the N. ribis isolate was carried out for three postharvest fungicides as described by Pianzzola et al. (3). Briefly, 96 well plates were filled with PDA alone (0 ppm) and PDA amended with 10 fungicide concentrations ranging from 1 to 1,200 ppm for thiabendazole (Mertect), and 1 to 1,000 ppm for fludioxonil (Scholar) and pyrimethanil (Penbotec). A mycelial suspension of the fungus was obtained from pure culture, 50 μl of the mycelial suspension was pipetted into each well, and allowed to grow for 72 h at 25°C. The experiment was conducted twice. The N. ribis isolate displayed MIC values of >1 ppm thiabendazole (Mertect), >1 ppm fludioxonil (Scholar), and 50 ppm pyrimethanil (Penbotec), which are all well below the labeled application rates for these postharvest fungicides. To our knowledge, this is the first report of N. ribis causing postharvest decay on apple fruit obtained from a commercial storage facility in Pennsylvania. References: (1) S. F. Altschul et al. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403, 1990. (2) D. Pavlic et al. Mycologia 101:636, 2009. (3) M. J. Pianzzola et al. Plant Dis. 88:23, 2004.

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