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Membership in graduate groups: Food Science, International Agricultural Development, and Horticulture & Agronomy

Current efforts in applied research include:

• Marketable and nutritional quality and postharvest performance of vegetables as affected by variety, maturity, cultural practices and postharvest handling operations.
• Postharvest physiology and handling of specialty vegetables, including fresh culinary herbs, Asian and Mexican specialty vegetables.
• Alternatives to postharvest fungicides and fumigants on selected vegetables.  Emphasis is on short-term heat treatments and controlled atmospheres to control decay organisms and insects.
• Physiology, shelf-life and quality of fresh-cut and value-added vegetables, including lettuces and leafy greens, melons, peppers, tomatoes, onions and garlic.

Kaiser, L.L., C. Lamp, C. Ganthavorn, L. Farfan-Ramirez, T. McMurdo, M. Cantwell, and S. Hardesty. 2012. Farm-to-WIC: New Opportunities to Increase Fruit & Vegetable Consumption. California Agric. 66:  15-19.

Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, E., H.J. Lieth, J.A. Jernstedt, J.M. Labavitch, T. V. Suslow and M. I. Cantwell. 2012.   Texture, composition and anatomy of spinach leaves in relation to nitrogen fertilization.  J. Science Food Agriculture, in press. 

Suslow, T.V., E.J. Mitcham, and M.I. Cantwell. 2011. Postharvest Handling and Safety of Perishable Crops.  Ch 10, in L. Tourte and B. Faber (eds.), Small Farm Handbook 2^nd ed. UC ANR Publ. 3526. 

Cantwell, M. (ed. compiler). 2011 (16th ed.). Fresh-cut Products: Maintaining Quality and Safety.  Univ. California Postharvest Horticulture Series No. 10.  (updated each year for or UC Davis Fresh-cut Workshop, September; http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Pubs/Pub_Desc_10-10.pdf

Ma, Y., G. Hong, Q. Wang and M. Cantwell. 2010.  Reassessment of treatments to retard browning of fresh-cut Russet potato with emphasis on controlled atmospheres and low concentrations of bisulfite. Int. J. Food Sci.Technol. 45: 1486-1494.

Cantwell, M.  2010.  Optimum Procedures for Ripening Tomatoes (p. 106-116).  Optimum Procedures for Ripening Melons (p. 71-79); Optimum Procedures for Ripening Peppers (p. 91-96).  J.T. Thompson and C. Crisosto, eds., Fruit Ripening & Ethylene Management, UC Postharvest Hort. Series 9.

Kader, A.A. and M.I. Cantwell (ed. compilers.).  2010.  Produce Quality Rating Scales and Color Charts, 2^nd ed. Postharvest Hort. Series No. 23.  116pp. + appendices + CD.   http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu. 

Cantwell, M., G. Hong and X. Nie. 2010. Using tissue ammonia and fermentative volatile concentrations as indicators of beneficial and stressful modified atmospheres for leafy and floral vegetables. Acta Hort. 876: 165-171.

Selma, M.V., A.M. Ibáñez, A. Allende, M. Cantwell and T. Suslow. 2008. Reduction by gaseous ozone of Salmonella and microbial flora associated with fresh-cut cantaloupe. Food Microbiology 25:558-565.

Cantwell, M.I., J. Kang and G. Hong. 2003. Heat treatments control sprouting and rooting of garlic cloves. Postharvest Biol. Tech., 30: 57-65.