Silvana Vero

TL;DR: Two yeast antagonists isolated from the surface of healthy apples, controlled blue mold of apple caused by Penicillium expansum and Nitrogen rather than carbon appeared to be the limiting factor to both the antagonists and the pathogen.

TL;DR: Psychrotrophic yeasts isolated from Antarctic soils, selected based on their ability to grow in apple juice at low temperatures, and evaluated as potential biocontrol agents for the management of postharvest diseases of apple during cold storage produced soluble and volatile antifungal substances that were inhibitory to apple pathogens.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the elicitation of antioxidant response by GB may contribute to improvements in oxidative stress tolerance, population growth in apple wounds, and biocontrol activity of C. infirmominiatum.

TL;DR: The strategy of isolating psychrotrophic, non-pectinolytic yeasts able to grow in apple juice as potential biocontrol agents was a successful approach and antifungal volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by yeasts against species of Alternaria that cause postharvest apple rot were inhibited.

TL;DR: This study indicates that D. hansenii is an excellent agent of control to anthracnose disease on papaya var.