Fig 1.
(A) Schematic of the mango treatment reactor and (B) Photograph of the reactor under mango treatment in DW.
Fig 2.
(A) Current-voltage characteristics of the plasma discharge used for power dissipated in the discharge.
(B) Optical emission spectrum of the plasma discharge used to identify species produced in the discharge.
Fig 3.
Photograph showing culture of (A) Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and (B) Botryodiplodia theobromae.
Fig 4.
Photograph showing conidia of (A) Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and (B) Botryodiplodia theobromae.
Table 1.
Properties of plasma activated water (PAW) treated with air and oxygen for the duration of 10 min.
Table 2.
Effect of PAW treatments on incidence (%) of anthracnose of mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee upto 10 days of storage.
Table 3.
Effect of PAW treatments on severity of anthracnose mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee upto 10 days of storage.
Table 4.
Effect of PAW treatments on incidence (%) of stem-end rot.
Table 5.
Effect of PAW treatments on severity (%) of stem end rot of mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee.
Table 6.
Effect of PAW treatments on maturity, taste and color of mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee up to 10 days of retention.
Fig 5.
Physical changes of mango ver. Khirshapat under different plasma activated water treatments at different days.
T0 = Air treated PAW for 10 minutes, T2 = Oxygen treated PAW for 10 minutes, and T3 = Diphenoconazole+azoxystrobin @0.6ml/1LH2O.
Fig 6.
Physical changes of mango var. Fazlee under different plasma activated water treatments at different days.
T0 = Control, T1 = Air treated PAW for 10 minutes, T2 = Oxygen treated PAW for 10 minutes and T3 = Diphenoconazole+azoxystrobin@0.6ml/LH2O.
Fig 7.
(A) Physiological weight loss (% PWL) and (B) moisture content (% MC) of mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee due to plasma activated water treatments.
T0 = Control, T1 = Air treated PAW for 10 minutes, T2 = Oxygen treated PAW for 10 minutes and T3 = Diphenoconazole+azoxystrobin @0.6ml/LH2O. Capped knot indicates the standard error difference (SED).
Fig 8.
(A) PH value and (B) total soluble solids (TSS) of mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee due to plasma activated water treatments.
T0 = Control, T1 = Air treated PAW for 10 minutes, T2 = Oxygen treated PAW for 10 minutes and T3 = Diphenoconazole+azoxystrobin @0.6ml/LH2O. Capped knot indicates the standard error difference (SED).
Fig 9.
(A) Firmness and (B) shelf life of mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee due to plasma activated water treatments.
T0 = Control, T1 = Air treated PAW for 10 minutes, T2 = Oxygen treated PAW for 10 minutes and T3 = Diphenoconazole+azoxystrobin@0.6ml/LH2O. Capped knot indicates the standard error difference (SED).
Fig 10.
Mineral content of mango var. (A) Khirsapat and (B) Fazlee under plasma activated water treatment.
T0 = Control, T1 = Air treated PAW for 10 minutes, T2 = Oxygen treated PAW for 10 minutes and T3 = Diphenoconazole+azoxystrobin @0.6ml/LH2O. Capped knot indicates the standard error difference (SED).
Fig 11.
Vit-C (mg/100g) content of mango var. Khirsapat and Fazlee due to plasma activated water treatments.
T0 = Control, T1 = Air treated PAW for 10 minutes, T2 = Oxygen treated PAW for 10 minutes, T3 = Diphenoconazole+azoxystrobin @0.6ml/LH2O. Capped knot the standard error difference (SED).