classified as climacteric fruit ( El-Agamy et al., 1982 ). However, unlike many climacteric fruit that can be harvested at a pre-climacteric stage of development and ripened in a controlled manner closer to the market, blueberries are harvested near full
evolution and ethylene production are reported as nmol·kg −1 s −1 and pmol·kg −1 ·s −1 , respectively. Apple accessions were classified into three maturity stages: preclimacteric = fruit samples producing less than 2 pmol·kg −1 ·s −1 ethylene; climacteric
Avocado is a climacteric fruit ( Eaks, 1978 ) characterized by the accumulation of oil while attached to the plant and by various potential cancer-preventing phytochemicals ( Ding et al., 2007 ). There are three known races of avocado: West Indian
behavior of apples is well documented. Apples ripen with a typical climacteric ethylene and respiratory pattern during postharvest storage ( Jobling and McGlasson, 1995 ; Larrigaudiere et al., 1997 ), whereas fruit quality changes progress for some time
physiologically specific characteristics, i.e., faster fruit growth, high climacteric ethylene production, development of an abscission layer at the peduncle, and rapid fruit softening during storage, resulting in its short shelf life ( Nishizawa et al., 2009
climacteric peak (day 0). Carbon dioxide levels in the fruit doubled from day –2 to day 0 and continued to increase until day 1. Subsequently, the CO 2 concentration decreased slightly from day 2 to day 5. The data for ethylene and CO 2 were consistent with
Abstract
Mature-green tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) irradiated with red light, display an advance of 3 days in pigment changes, climacteric rise, and ethylene production.
climacteric accessions. Fig. 2. Fruit of 40 Brazilian melon landraces collected in northeastern states. Qualitative and quantitative morphological traits were recorded according to the descriptor of the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (2003
Yang, 1984 ). Tomato, as a typical respiratory climacteric fruit, ripening and senescence are largely dependent on endogenous production and ethylene action ( Liu et al., 2015 ). Ethylene is generated from the precursor of methionine through Yang
’s test at P ≤ 0.05. All the assumptions of analysis were checked to ensure validity of statistical analysis. Results and Discussion Respiration and ethylene production. ‘Blackamber’ is a climacteric-type japanese plum cultivar ( Singh et al., 2012 ) and