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

仅使用冷藏来保持芦笋质量目前仅限于一周。因此，英国芦笋生产无法提供全年供应，需要从海外进口大量芦笋。这种做法对环境造成重大影响和负担，因为大部分产品是通过空运运输的。之前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，以保持英国种植的矛的质量3周加一周的保质期。然而，商业上实施DCA的主要限制因素是被称为尖端破裂的生理障碍的发展（高达10%的芦笋产量受到影响）。2018年在英国各地观察到高水平的尖端断裂，这归因于收获季节的温暖温度。该项目旨在确定导致尖端断裂的因素;从而减少其发生率的机会，并了解新鲜收获的矛何时可以成功地储存在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尖端故障。

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.