**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to thank University of Agriculture Faisalabad for their financial support. Moreover, we are thankful to the reviewers for their critical reading and suggestions for the improvement of our manuscript.

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**Author details**

Muhammad Azam1

and Rashad Qadri1

Pakistan

Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

provided the original work is properly cited.

\*, Shaghef Ejaz2

1 Pomology Laboratory, Institute of Horticultural Sciences, University of

\*Address all correspondence to: muhammad.azam@uaf.edu.pk

2 Department of Horticulture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

3 Department of Environmental Sciences, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan,

*Postharvest Quality Management of Strawberries DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82341*

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, Rana Naveed Ur Rehman1

, Mumtaz Khan3

*Postharvest Quality Management of Strawberries DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82341*

*Strawberry - Pre- and Post-Harvest Management Techniques for Higher Fruit Quality*

increased ascorbic acid, total sugar, titratable acidity, total phenolic, and DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazy) radical-scavenging activity in strawberries during the course of storage. In addition, higher activities of reactive oxygen species like APX, SOD, and CAT maintained lower amounts of superoxide anion (SO2), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and malondialdehyde (MDA). Thus, for maintenance of quality attributes and improvement in nutritional quality of strawberry fruit, exposure to blue light illumination might be affective due to the enhancement of their antioxidant systems and free radical-scavenging abilities [78]. Strawberry fruits were exposed to the lower dose gamma irradiation at 1 kGy and different amounts of EMAP (active equilibrium-modified atmosphere packaging) at the rate of EMAP1: CO2 10%: O2 5%; N2 85% and EMAP2: CO2 5%: O2 10%; N2 85%, and stored at 4°C. EMAP1 packages showed good texture, appearance, and firmness than EMAP2 during storage time. It has been noted that the exposure to lower irradiation dose in combination with EMAP1 maintained external appearance, less fungus attack, and enables high-quality strawberry with improved

Strawberry is a highly perishable fruit and subjected to several postharvest losses after harvest. There are several stages which are responsible for quick losses such as improper harvesting methods, developmental stage, improper picking time, sorting and packaging, transportation postharvest treatments, and storage conditions and as well as untrained labor. However, numerous pre- and postharvest studies were conducted to develop strategies for extension of strawberry shelf life such as harvesting methods, heat treatments, UV-C irradiations, coating, and essential oil applications. Furthermore, there is need a to study these technologies on commercial scale to increase the net income. There is a need to develop ecofriendly alterna-

The authors would like to thank University of Agriculture Faisalabad for their financial support. Moreover, we are thankful to the reviewers for their critical read-

tive technologies to enhance the shelf life of strawberries.

ing and suggestions for the improvement of our manuscript.

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shelf life [79].

**3. Conclusions**

**Acknowledgements**
