Heat treatments for postharvest pest control : theory and practice / edited by Juming Tang ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tang, Juming, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insect pests--Control.

Insect pests.

Insect pests--Effect of temperature on.

Food storage pests--Control.

Food storage pests.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Due to the nature of agricultural commodities as carriers of exotic pests, importing countries have employed varying methods of pest control for postharvest products. Thermal treatments are emerging as effective alternatives to traditional methods. This book provides information of these increasingly important treatments.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Contributors; Reviewers; 1 Introduction; 2 Fundamental Heat Transfer Theory for Thermal Treatments; 3 Temperature Measurement; 4 Physiological Responses of Agricultural Commodities to Heat Treatments; 5 Experimental and Simulation Methods of Insect Thermal Death Kinetics; 6 Biology and Thermal Death Kinetics of Selected Insects; 7 Thermal Control of Fungi in the Reduction of Postharvest Decay; 8 Disinfestation of Stored Products and Associated Structures Using Heat; 9 Considerations for Phytosanitary Heat Treatment Research; 10 Heat with Controlled Atmospheres

11 The Influence of Heat Shock Proteins on Insect Pests and Fruits in Thermal Treatments12 Thermal Treatment Protocol Development and Scale-up; 13 Commercial Quarantine Heat Treatments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-95303-9

9786610953035

1-84593-253-6

OCLC:

648317280