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Review
. 2021 Mar 5;22(5):2633.
doi: 10.3390/ijms22052633.

Multifunctional Role of Chitosan Edible Coatings on Antioxidant Systems in Fruit Crops: A Review

Giuseppina Adiletta  1 , Marisa Di Matteo  1 , Milena Petriccione  2
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Review

Multifunctional Role of Chitosan Edible Coatings on Antioxidant Systems in Fruit Crops: A Review

Giuseppina Adiletta et al. Int J Mol Sci. .

Abstract

Chitosan-based edible coatings represent an eco-friendly and biologically safe preservative tool to reduce qualitative decay of fresh and ready-to-eat fruits during post-harvest life due to their lack of toxicity, biodegradability, film-forming properties, and antimicrobial actions. Chitosan-based coatings modulate or control oxidative stress maintaining in different manner the appropriate balance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in fruit cells, by the interplay of pathways and enzymes involved in ROS production and the scavenging mechanisms which essentially constitute the basic ROS cycle. This review is carried out with the aim to provide comprehensive and updated over-view of the state of the art related to the effects of chitosan-based edible coatings on anti-oxidant systems, enzymatic and non-enzymatic, evaluating the induced oxidative damages during storage in whole and ready-to-eat fruits. All these aspects are broadly reviewed in this review, with particular emphasis on the literature published during the last five years.

Keywords: antioxidant; chitosan; enzymes; fruit crops; oxidative stress; postharvest.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Principal steps involved in mono and bilayer chitosan (CS)-based edible coatings in whole and fresh-cut fruits.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Enzymatic antioxidant systems to control redox homeostasis. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), ascorbate peroxidase (APX), glutathione peroxidases (GPX), monodehydroascorbate reductase (MDHAR), dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), glutathione reductase (GR), ascorbate (AA), monodehydroascorbate (MDHA), dehydroascorbate (DHA), oxidized glutathione (GSH), reduced glutathione (GSSG).
Figure 3
Figure 3
CS-based coating counteracts oxidative stress reducing ROS over-production through enhancing of antioxidative defense system.
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