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Acidic electrolyzed water (AEW), a safe and innovative sterilization technology, plays a role in enhancing disease resistance in harvested produce. In this study, the efficacy of AEW in delaying wampee disease development was assessed, along with its association with disease resistance metabolism. Wampee fruit was treated with AEW (pH 2.5) at different available chlorine concentrations (ACCs) (20, 40, 60, and 80 mg\/L) and subsequently stored at 25 \u00b0C for 8 days. Results revealed that 40 mg\/L ACC in AEW (pH 2.5) was most effective in improving the postharvest quality of wampee fruit. Compared with control wampee fruit, those treated with 40 mg\/L ACC in AEW exhibited lower incidence of fruit disease, higher pericarp lignin content, and higher activities of pericarp disease resistance enzymes (DREs), such as cinnamate-4-hydroxylase, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, chitinase, \u03b2-1,3-glucanase, polyphenol oxidase, 4-coumarate CoA ligase, and cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase. These results suggested that AEW elevated DRE activities, promoted lignin accumulation, and ultimately enhanced disease resistance, suppressed disease development, and improved storage quality in harvested wampee fruit. Consequently, AEW emerged as a safe technology to mitigate the disease development and enhance the storage quality of harvested wampee fruit.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/foods13101556","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,16]],"date-time":"2024-05-16T09:30:03Z","timestamp":1715851803000},"page":"1556","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Acidic Electrolyzed Water Maintains the Storage Quality of Postharvest Wampee Fruit by Activating the Disease Resistance"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6973-6919","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuzhao","family":"Lin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Oceanology and Food Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4607-1018","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongbin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Oceanology and Food Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sisi","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Oceanology and Food Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4931-2123","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yazhen","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Oceanology and Food Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xuanjing","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Oceanology and Food Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yihui","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Food Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3380","DOI":"10.1002\/fsn3.1617","article-title":"Effect of ethanol fumigation on pericarp browning associated with phenol metabolism, storage quality, and antioxidant systems of wampee fruit during cold storage","volume":"8","author":"Shao","year":"2020","journal-title":"Food Sci. 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