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TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASABE
卷 62, 期 1, 页码 33-43出版社
AMER SOC AGRICULTURAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.13031/trans.13088
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Ascochyta blight; Lentils; Microwave energy; Pathology
Considering the development of pest and pathogen resistance to chemical treatments and the cost of developing new chemicals, proper physical methods for integrated pest management seem to be gaining interest. Microwave treatment has been considered a potential postharvest pest and disease management strategy in legume and grain seeds. The effect of this process on pathogens related to legumes, which could be expressed as a very fast and volumetric thermal treatment, has not been fully studied. In this study, a domestic microwave oven with full output power of 1100 W (company information) or 485 W (calibrated with 150 g of water) was used to treat red lentil seeds that were naturally infected with the Ascochyta blight (AB) pathogen, a problematic seedborne fungi of lentil. Microwave radiation was applied at three moisture contents of red lentil seeds (9.1%, 16%, and 19% wet basis) and two power levels (50% and 100%). Three exposure times for each moisture content and power level were selected to achieve the same final average temperatures with low and high moisture contents (approx. 65 degrees C to 85 degrees C). The complementary error function was used to model and compare the pathogen and seed death rates based on the normally distributed susceptibility of the AB pathogen and seed germination to microwave heating. At 9% moisture content with water activity of 0.4, the percentage of infected seeds decreased from 17% to 9% without significant loss of seed viability when a power level of 100% (9.7 W g(-1)) and exposure time of 51 s were applied, and the final average surface temperature reached 84 degrees C. However, seed vigor, measured by the electrical conductivity of the seed leachate, decreased at this power level and exposure time. Despite the feasibility of fungi elimination at higher moisture content at the same final average temperatures, eliminating fungi from the seeds without harming their viability and vigor was challenging.
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