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Lin H, Xu Y, Guan W, Zhao S, Li X, Zhang C, Blecker C, Liu J. The importance of supercooled stability for food during supercooling preservation: a review of mechanisms, influencing factors, and control methods. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2023:1-15. [PMID: 37667834 DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2023.2248515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/06/2023]
Abstract
Supercooling can preserve food in its original fresh state below its ice point temperature without freezing. However, the supercooled state is unstable in thermodynamics, state breakdown can occur at any moment, resulting in irregular and larger ice crystals formation, leading to food tissue damage, and loss of quality and nutrients. While the effectiveness of supercooling preservation has been verified in the lab and pilot scale tests, the stability of the supercooled state of food remains an open question, posing a limitation for larger industrial-scale application of supercooling preservation. Based on this background, this review presents the instability mechanisms of supercooling preservation and summarizes the factors such as food properties (e.g., material size, food components, specific surface area, and surface roughness) and preservation circumstances (e.g., cooling rate, temperature variation, and mechanical disturbance) that influence the stability of the supercooled state of food. The review also discusses novel techniques for enhancing the supercooling capacity and their limitations (e.g., precise temperature control and magnetic field). Further studies are necessary to comprehensively evaluate the effects of influence factors and supercooling technologies on supercooling, realizing the true sense of 'no-crystal' food products under subzero temperature preservation conditions in commercial applications.
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- Hengxun Lin
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Food Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Refrigeration Technology, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Food Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Sala T, Puglisi D, Ferrari L, Salamone F, Tassone MR, Rotino GL, Fricano A, Losa A. Genome-wide analysis of genetic diversity in a germplasm collection including wild relatives and interspecific clones of garden asparagus. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1187663. [PMID: 37476175 PMCID: PMC10354869 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1187663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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The Asparagus genus includes approximately 240 species, the most important of which is garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.), as this is a vegetable crop cultivated worldwide for its edible spear. Along with garden asparagus, other species are also cultivated (e.g., Asparagus maritimus L.) or have been proposed as untapped sources of variability in breeding programs (e.g., Asparagus acutifolius L.). In the present work, we applied reduced-representation sequencing to examine a panel of 378 diverse asparagus genotypes, including commercial hybrids, interspecific lines, wild relatives of garden asparagus, and doubled haploids currently used in breeding programs, which enabled the identification of more than 200K single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). These SNPs were used to assess the extent of linkage disequilibrium in the diploid gene pool of asparagus and combined with preliminary phenotypic information to conduct genome-wide association studies for sex and traits tied to spear quality and production. Moreover, using the same phenotypic and genotypic information, we fitted and cross-validated genome-enabled prediction models for the same set of traits. Overall, our analyses demonstrated that, unlike the diversity detected in wild species related to garden asparagus and in interspecific crosses, cultivated and wild genotypes of A. officinalis L. show a narrow genetic basis, which is a contributing factor hampering the genetic improvement of this crop. Estimating the extent of linkage disequilibrium and providing the first example of genome-wide association study and genome-enabled prediction in this species, we concluded that the asparagus panel examined in the present study can lay the foundation for determination of the genetic bases of agronomically important traits and for the implementation of predictive breeding tools to sustain breeding.
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- Tea Sala
- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Montanaso Lombardo, LO, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Fiorenzuola d’Arda, PC, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Montanaso Lombardo, LO, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Montanaso Lombardo, LO, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Montanaso Lombardo, LO, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Montanaso Lombardo, LO, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Fiorenzuola d’Arda, PC, Italy
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- Council for Agricultural Research and Economics – Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CREA-GB), Montanaso Lombardo, LO, Italy
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