Importance of water loss in the chilling injury of grapefruit stored at low temperature

Differences in chilling injury susceptibility of grapefruit from exterior and interior tree canopy positions were used to investigate the hypothesis that water loss is related to chilling injury symptom development during low-temperature storage. The sun-exposed surface of grapefruit from exterior c...

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Published inScientia horticulturae Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 261 - 267
Main Author Purvis, Albert C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.01.1984
Elsevier
Subjects
Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions
Biological and medical sciences
canopy position
diffusive resistances
Food industries
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
General agronomy. Plant production
General aspects
grapefruit
Handling, storage, packaging, transport
Harvesting. Postharvest. Storage
hydrocooling
Vegetative propagation. Sowing and planting. Harvesting
hydrocooling
canopy position
grapefruit
diffusive resistances
Water
Fruit
Cold resistance
Citrus fruit
Harvesting
Rutaceae
Citrus paradisi
Transpiration
Warehousing
Fruit crop
Water regime
Dicotyledones
Quality
Angiospermae
Spermatophyta
Low temperature
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Summary:Differences in chilling injury susceptibility of grapefruit from exterior and interior tree canopy positions were used to investigate the hypothesis that water loss is related to chilling injury symptom development during low-temperature storage. The sun-exposed surface of grapefruit from exterior canopy positions was more susceptible to chilling injury and had lower diffusive resistance than the shaded surface of the same fruit. Reducing the rate of fruit transpiration during the first week of storage by a pre-cooling treatment prior to low-temperature storage delayed, but did not eliminate, the development of chilling injury.
ISSN:0304-4238
1879-1018
DOI:10.1016/0304-4238(84)90070-0