Bacterial community shifts of commercial apples, oranges, and peaches at different harvest points across multiple growing seasons.

ABSTRACT: Assessing the microbes present on tree fruit carpospheres as the fruit enters postharvest processing could have useful applications, as these microbes could have a major influence on spoilage, food safety, verification of packing process controls, or other aspects of processing. The goal of this study was to establish a baseline profile of bacterial communities associated with apple (pome fruit), peach (stone fruit), and Navel orange (citrus fruit) at harvest. We found that commercial peaches had the greatest bacterial richness followed by oranges then apples. Time of harvest significantly changed bacterial diversity in oranges and peaches, but not apples. Shifts in diversity varied by fruit type, where 70% of the variability in beta diversity on the apple carposphere was driven by the gai

SUBMITTER: Goforth M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11020611 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature