Insight into the role of melatonin in mitigating chilling injury and maintaining the quality of cold-stored fruits and vegetables

Authors

Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Zora Singh, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Eben Afrifa-Yamoah, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Mahmood Ul Hasan, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Jashanpreet Kaur, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Andrew Woodward, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Food Reviews International

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

School

School of Science

RAS ID

58055

Funders

Edith Cowan University

Comments

Shah, H. M. S., Singh, Z., Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Hasan, M. U., Kaur, J., & Woodward, A. (2023). Insight into the Role of Melatonin in Mitigating Chilling Injury and Maintaining the Quality of Cold-Stored Fruits and Vegetables. Food Reviews International, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/87559129.2023.2212042

Abstract

Chilling injury (CI) causes significant losses in fruits and vegetables during cold storage. CI symptoms exhibited as browning, off-flavour and sunken spots, reduced juice content, uneven ripening and softening in fresh horticultural produce. Application of melatonin (MT) effectively mitigates CI in cold-stored fruits and vegetables. This comprehensive review focuses at discussing symptoms, the mechanism of CI, regulation of melatonin-mediated chilling tolerance, and meta-analysis of CI reduction in horticultural produce. Melatonin mitigates CI, maintains quality of cold-stored horticultural produce by upregulating early hydrogen peroxide signalling, activities of antioxidant enzymes after inhibition of reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and membrane leakage.

DOI

10.1080/87559129.2023.2212042

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.