Preliminary in Vitro Tests for Microwaves as a Post-harvest Disinfestation Treatment on Fruit Flies | ||||
| Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 11, Issue 12, December 2020, Page 639-643 PDF (677.79 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2020.158603 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
T. A. Abdel-Hafeez  1; A. A. Elzouk2; A. S. Abd El-Maaboud2
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| 1Plant Prot. Res. Ins., Agric. Res. Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Plant Prot. Res. Ins., Agric. Res. Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In vitro preliminary tests executed to evaluate the possibility of using microwave to disinfest fruits as a postharvest quarantine treatment using a cocking microwave oven. Subjecting the eggs, 1st, 2nd and 3rd larval instars of both medfly and peach fruit fly for 10, 15, 25 and 30 seconds and estimate the mortality percentage. Results revealed that there were a gradual increase in mortality percentage for the larval instars for both flies, eggs and larval instars of peach fruit flies have a higher heat tolerance than medfly stage consequently, lower mortality percentage for the same time period microwave treatments. Also, revealed that eggs of fruit flies (medfly and peach fruit fly) have a higher resistance to heat than larval instars. Thus, Microwave can be a very efficient tool for disinfesting treatments of fruit flies since it can give a very fast rise in temperature in very short time which is a very important parameter in qualifying postharvest quarantine method to avoid fruit damage, still a challenges are presents for developing microwave processes to be applicable as a postharvest quarantine treatment. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Ceratitis capitata; Bactrocera zonata; Diptera: Tephritidae; Microwave; postharvest and quarantine treatment | ||||
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