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Currently, slightly acidic electrolyzed water (SAEW) has been shown to be potent in maintaining the storability of fruits and vegetables. Accordingly, this work was designed to figure out the effectiveness of SAEW on storability maintenance in postharvest guavas via regulating the phenylpropane metabolism. On the harvest day, fresh guavas were immersed in distilled water or SAEW (available chlorine concentration: 30 mg L\u22121) for 10 min, followed by storage for 15 d (25 \u00b0C, 80% RH). Results showed that, in comparation with the control guavas, SAEW-treated guavas exhibited lower levels of fruit disease index, malondialdehyde, and cell membrane permeability, while showing higher levels of fruit firmness and commercially acceptable fruit rate, as evidenced by enhanced contents of titratable acid, total soluble solids, vitamin C, total soluble sugar, and reducing sugar. Moreover, SAEW treatment improved the activities of disease-resistance enzymes and the contents of sinapic acid, p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, caffeic acid, and lignin. The above data revealed that SAEW treatment-enhanced storability of guavas was attributed to the increased disease-resistance enzyme activities and disease-resistance substance contents, which improved the fruit disease resistance and slowed down the disease occurrence.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/foods13233850","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,29]],"date-time":"2024-11-29T02:57:08Z","timestamp":1732849028000},"page":"3850","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Postharvest Immersion in Slightly Acidic Electrolyzed Water Improves Guava Storability by Regulating Phenylpropane Metabolism"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4607-1018","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongbin","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Oceanology and Food Science, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Inshore Resources Biotechnology, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou 362000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shujuan","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Food Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"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"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5282-0591","authenticated-orcid":false,"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"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6973-6919","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuzhao","family":"Lin","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":[[2024,11,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"95","DOI":"10.1016\/j.sajb.2024.04.007","article-title":"Effect of melatonin on biochemical changes, antioxidant system and oxidative membrane damage of Indian guava (cv. 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