Development of a decision support tool to reduce asparagus tip breakdown in the UK

开发决策支持工具以减少英国芦笋尖端的损坏

• 批准号: 51111
• 金额: $ 24.38万
• 依托单位: JGHC LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=51111
• 关键词: Development; decision; support; tool; reduce

Maintaining asparagus quality using cold storage alone is currently limited to one week. Thus, UK asparagus production is unable to provide year round supply necessitating the import of large quantities of spears from overseas. This practise has a significant environmental impact and burden as much of the product is transported by air freight. A previous Innovate UK and BBSRC funded project established the optimum dynamically controlled atmosphere (DCA) conditions to preserve the quality of UK-grown spears for 3 weeks plus one week of shelf-life. However, the major limiting factor to implementing DCA commercially was the development of the physiological disorder known as tip breakdown (up to 10% of asparagus production is affected). High levels of tip breakdown were observed in 2018 across the UK and this was attributed to the warm temperatures during the harvest season.This project aims to identify the factors that cause tip breakdown; and thus the opportunity to reduce its incidence and understand when fresh harvested spears may be successfully stored in DCA and/or actions that may be taken. This will be achieved by developing a decision support tool using classification models in order to identify and predict tip breakdown at their early stages.

目前，仅使用冷藏来维持芦笋的质量仅限于一周。因此，英国的芦笋生产无法提供全年供应，因此必须从海外进口大量的长矛。这种做法对环境造成了重大影响和负担，因为大部分产品都是通过空运运输的。此前，Innovate UK和BBSRC资助的一个项目建立了最佳的动态控制气氛(DCA)条件，以保存英国种植的长矛的质量3周外加一周的货架寿命。然而，DCA商业化的主要限制因素是一种被称为尖端破裂的生理疾病的发展(多达10%的芦笋生产受到影响)。2018年，英国各地观察到了高水平的尖端故障，这是由于收获季节的温暖温度造成的。该项目旨在确定导致TIP故障的因素；从而有机会减少其发生率，并了解新鲜收获的鱼叉何时可以成功储存在DCA和/或可能采取的行动。这将通过使用分类模型开发决策支持工具来实现，以便在早期阶段识别和预测TIP故障。