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POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 128, Issue -, Pages 18-23Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2017.02.001
Keywords
Basal plate; Multivariate analysis; Transmittance spectra; Visible and near infrared spectroscopy; Visual criteria for rot level
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- JA ZEN-NOH Hyogo
- Kobe University
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The feasibility of visible and near infrared (VIS/NIR) transmittance spectroscopy for nondestructive discrimination of healthy and diseased onion bulbs was examined. Rottenness occurring in inner scales that were hard to diagnose by the five human senses was targeted. First, VIS/NIR spectra were acquired for six bulb positions. Subsequently, the degree of rot was measured by visual inspection of vertically cut surface based on our proposed criteria and by weighing of sectioned rotted parts. Our evaluation criteria functioned as an alternative mode of the weighing method. The basal plate of onion bulb had remarkable scattering properties. Therefore, spectral features differed not only by the rot levels but also by positioning the bulb against the sensor setup. The partial least squares regression model developed from the longitudinal position, for which the basal plate did not overlap against the system optical axis, showed the best performance and classified rotted bulbs above level 1 with 98.4% accuracy. Absorbance below 736 nm was the informative region for bulb rottenness detection. (C) 2017 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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