Deciphering the Cape Gooseberry Fruits Mycobiome for Further Safety Improvement Postharvest.

ABSTRACT: Cape gooseberries are exquisitely flavored fruits; their rapid deterioration reduces their shelf life. Understanding the unique mycobiome of fruit peels is an essential step in identifying the taxa causing postharvest loss. The current study proposes to analyze the fungal communities of cape gooseberry peels collected from an organic orchard at unripe and ripe stages and purchased from open-air market sites, using the ITS2 region metabarcoding. According to the Kruskal-Wallis test, there were no statistically significant differences found in either the phylogenetic or non-phylogenetic alpha diversity indices. Significant differences in fungal communities were observed between the market and orchard groups based on beta diversity results. Ascomycota (85.72-96.76%), Basidiomycota</

SUBMITTER: Tenea GN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11506962 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature