06 September 2017

Packer Newsletters

Packer Newsletter

A newsletter for Australian citrus growers and packers

Welcome to the Packer Newsletter!

The Packer Newsletter is a regular newsletter for Australian citrus growers and packers. It is a contribution from the Horticulture Innovation ‘Australian Citrus Postharvest Science Program’ (CT15010). The newsletter will give industry updates on the outcomes of the research in the ‘Australian Citrus Postharvest Science Program’, industry news, new products and better ways for handling and storing fresh citrus.

The Packer Newsletter was run by Peter Taverner, Nancy Cunningham and the postharvest team at SARDI many years. Peter and the team have made the Packer Newsletter a mainstay of practical and up-to-date postharvest information for Australian growers and packers. Thanks to Peter and everyone at SARDI for many years of hard and dedicated work.

This summary contains issues of the Packer Newsletters # 72, 77, 97 – 119. Other back issues will be added and indexed when available.

Issue 115 – 119 – Edited and written by John Golding (NSW DPI)

Issues 72, 97-114 – Edited and written by Peter Taverner (SARDI)

Issue 77 – Editor Nancy Cunningham (SARDI)

These articles have been catalogued as a contribution from the Australian Citrus Postharvest Science Program (CT15010) funded by Horticulture Innovation and NSW Department of Primary Industries. Levies from Australian citrus growers are managed by Horticulture Innovation and contributed to funding this project. The Australian Government provides matched funding for all Horticulture Innovation’s research and development activities.

* Please check APVMA website to check all chemicals and treatments for their registration and use in your state – Public Chemical Registration Information System Search (https://portal.apvma.gov.au/pubcris). It is critical to check that these chemicals are also allowed in certain export markets.

Issue	Date	Editor	Keywords	Article 1	Article 2	Article 3	Article 4	Article 5	Article 6

119	Nov-19	John Golding	Fungicide resistance, chilling injury	Launch of Citrus Postharvest Sanitation and Fungicide Resistance Service	A review of chilling injury causes and control
118	Mar-19	John Golding	Fungicide resistance, survey, technical forum, 2019, research	2018 postharvest fungicide resistance survey results	Postharvest presentations at Citrus Technical Forum in Adelaide – talks	Postharvest presentations at Citrus Technical Forum in Adelaide – posters
117	Sep-18	John Golding	fungicides, Chairman, propiconazole, fludioxonil, green and blue mould, sour rot, timing	Chairman® -New postharvest fungicide	Comparison of Chairman® fungicide	New student to work on Citrus project
116	Mar-17	John Golding	fungicide resistance, management, strategies, survey	Fungicide resistance management	Results of the 2017 fungicide resistance survey	Strategies to reduce fungicide resistance
115	Sep-17	John Golding	postharvest program, research, fungicide resistance, chitosan, films, fungicides	Welcome and thanks	Australian Citrus Postharvest Science Program	Update – Assessing resistance to postharvest fungicides	Decay control research
114	Jun-15	Peter Taverner	Philabuster, Scholar, sodium carbonate, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, SBC, benomyl, TBZ, fludioxonil, zebra skin	Web information update	Sodium bicarbonate with high pressure washing– anode to Dave.	Zebra skin	Using sodium bicarbonate—understanding how and why	The cost of delaying the dumping of fungicides
113	Dec-14	Peter Taverner	TBZ, IPHM, UV light disinfection, 1-MCP, ozone, degreening	Coolroom disinfection (The IPHM way)	Fogging disinfectants into degreening rooms	UV light and ozone coolroom disinfection	Improve shelf life by reducing ethylene levels	Fogging fungicides
112	Sep-14	Peter Taverner	integrated postharvest management, sodium bicarbonate, SBC, Philabuster, Scholar, imazalil, IMZ, thiabendazole, TBZ, fludioxonil, FLU, pyrimethanil	Integrated postharvest management (IPHM)	Integrating ‘reduced risk’ fungicides into current practice	Adding SBC to high pressure washers	Integrating Scholar	Age-related breakdown and frost	Integrating Philabuster
111	Jun-14	Peter Taverner	wax defects, chilling injury, CI, heat, imazalil, IMZ, alum, thiabendazole, TBZ, residues, fludioxonil FLU, powdering, shattering, chalking	Fungicide use is heating up	Flocculating water using alum	Chilling injury—in its many forms	Wax defects
110	Mar-14	Peter Taverner	anthracnose, degreening, oleocellosis, 2,4-D, Mancozeb, paraffinic oil, lightbrown apple moth, CPD, Prospect, Caltex Prospect, mealybug, fullers rose weevil, FRW	Degreening practices	Tips for the control of anthracnose	Caltex Prospect® — Postharvest fruit treatment for control of surface pests.
109	Jan-14	Peter Taverner	maintenance, decontamination, septoria spot, benomyl, TBZ	A few maintenance hints for the off season	Can mouldy fruit infect nearby healthy fruit?	The trials and tribulations of conducting fungicide resistance surveys	Septoria spot
108	Sep-13	Peter Taverner	bleach, sodium hypochlorite, chorine, calcium hypochlorite, water pH, sour rot, Tecto, acid phytotoxicity, MRL, sour rot	Water pH and chlorination	Age related rind breakdown	The efficacy of fungicides, peracetic acid and salt combinations of sour rot	Combinations of sour rot	Are fungicide label rates becoming obsolete?
107	Jun-13	Peter Taverner	sanitation, sanitisers, Fungiflor, Nylate, hypochlorites, bromo-chloro-dimethyl-hydantoins, chlorine dioxide, quaternary ammonium compounds, pH, thiabendazole, Tecto, Scholar, fludioxonil, Magnate, brush burn	Sanitation—back to the basics	Postharvest pitting	Compatibility of fungicides / fungicide mixtures in dips	Brush burn
106	Mar-13	Peter Taverner	degreening, bin drenching, sorting, ethylene conditioning, salt mixtures, pH buffering, Magnate, Fungaflor, Scholar, Tecto, Philabuster, Penbotec, Na bicarbonate, K sorbate, peracetic acid, degreening, mandarins	Early season degreening and associated practices (condensed version)	Ethylene conditioning to reduce chilling injury and non-chilling peel pitting	Compatibility of peracetic acid with fungicides and salt mixtures	Degreening mandarins: condensed version
105	Oct-12	Peter Taverner	sanitisers, sanitiser / fungicide compatibility, hydrogen peroxide, H₂O₂, peracetic acid, PAA, thiabendazole, Tecto, Tecto, Castle Wash, TBZ	Fungicides and sanitisers —new products; new compatibility issues	Chlorine aggravates chilling injury	Measuring peracetic acid—or should that be hydrogen peroxide?	Fungicide formulations and compatibility
104	Jul-12	Peter Taverner	oleocellosis, citrus black rot, sanitation survey, high pressure, E. coli, fungicide resistance survey, thiabendazole ,TBZ , imazalil, IMZ, fludioxonil, FLU, citrus black rot, air-borne spores,	Sanitation Survey 2012	Oleocellosis	Fungicide Resistance Survey 2012	Citrus Black Rot	Packing shed Designs to Reduce Fungicide Resistant Mould
103	Jan-12	Peter Taverner	degreening, ethylene, stem-end rots, Diplodia natalensis, Phomopsis citri, Alternaria citri, 2,4-D, anthracnose, Colletotrichum gloeosporiodes, ethylene phytotoxicity, Scholar, fludioxonil, Sodium o-phenylphenate tetrahydrate, SOPP	Degreening of citrus	Tips for postharvest anthracnose control of citrus	SOPP
102	Dec-11	Peter Taverner	anthracnose, SERB, citrus fruits waxed, TBZ, Mancozeb, stem end dehydration	History never repeats	Timely advice from 25 years ago	1986 revisited in 2011	Anthracnose – a short precautionary tale
101	Oct-11	Peter Taverner	Strippers, fungicide survey, imazalil, IMZ, thiabendazole, TBZ,	Fungicide survey – is resistance blowing in the wind?	Strippers – how closely are you watching?
100	Mar-11	Peter Taverner	Early season, early season degreening, bin drenching, thiabendazole, TBZ, degreening mandarins, auxin 2,4-D, early season	100th Edition of the Packer Newsletter	Early season degreening and associated practices.	Degreening mandarins: some factors to consider
99	Dec-10	Peter Taverner	Maintaining fungicide concentrations, pH, ORP, chlorine test strips, free chlorine, cyanuric stabilisers, UV, bromine, ORP values	Maintaining fungicide concentrations	Using ORP probes to monitor sanition: What is ORP anyway?	Decontamination of cold storage facilities (Reprint from Dec 2007)
98	Oct-10	Peter Taverner	Scholar, fungicide, fludioxonil, thiabendazole, imazalil, resistance, US EPA, EPA, MRLs, Japan, stem-end rot, green mould, sodium bicarbonate, sodium hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide, carbonate salts, Penicillium, Geotrichum citri-aurantii, sour rot	Scholar – a new fungicide for postharvest use on citrus in Australia	Using carbonate salts in packingsheds – practical applications	Research in brief
97	Jun-10	Peter Taverner	profitability, value chain, packout, profits, chlorine, sanitisers, Penicillium, italicum, digitatum, Salmonella, E.coli	Packout percentages and profitability	Using chlorine based sanitisers in packingsheds	What does your chlorine test strip measure?
77	Jan-05	Nancy Cunningham	fungicides, Penicillium, italicum, digitatum, Geotrichum candidum, Alternaria, Diplodia, Phomopsis, fungicide application methods, gibberellic acid, GA, benzimidazole, imidazole, guanidine, sodium ortho-phenylphenate	Registered fungicides for citrus postharvest – What’s out there?	Getting the most out of your fungicide.	Postharvest GA use – Fruit quality storage trial.
72	Sep-03	Peter Taverner	heat, pathogens, pasteurization, phytotoxic, quaternary ammonium compounds, quats, temperature, sanitise, guazatine	Turn up the heat: using heat to control pathogens	The phytotoxic effects of quaternary ammonium compounds	Got a postharvest problem? Who do you call?