Effects of sustainable crop managements on quality and shelf-life in globe artichoke
Dottoranda: Maddalena Spezzigu Docente guida: Prof. Luigi Ledda
Cotutor: Dr. Amedeo Palma
Innovative Agronomic Management
Soil fertility resource management, with an accurate choice of cover crop species and rotations, could be successfully used both for reducing mineral fertilisers and either for obtaining acceptable head commercial yield of Spinoso sardo.
Literature
In addition, quality components measured on the globe artichoke heads managed with the alternative treatments were equal to conventional treatment (macro–and micro-minerals) and, at time, exceeded in terms of polyphenols.
(Spanu et al, 2017)
Objectives
To evaluate the effect of two crop managements on the post- harvest and shelf-life
To identify the best technologies able to preserve the product
quality and its shelf-life
Materials and methods:
post-harvest management
Artichoke heads have been harvested at 30- day intervals
Comby check 9800
Datalogger CO2 meter
Results
Modification of atmosphere inside the package
O2
CO2
H2O
O2 H2O
CO2