Treatment with ethanol vapor or hot air alone both
resulted in significantly lower decay incidence compared
with the control. Wang et al., 2011. Gray mold
incidence after 1 month storage decreases when fruit are
oimmersed in the combination of 35% ethanol at 50 C for
1 min. A highly significant interaction (p _ 0.001)
between ethanol and temperature was observed on
percentage infection. As ethanol concentration and
temperature increased, less infection was observed.
Compared to the control treatments where fruit had a
100% infection, there was complete control over
infection in those treatments of 300 ml/L ethanol and
500C of temperature.