High CO2 Atmosphere Enhances Fruit Firmness during Storage.

Optimizing Co2 Enhances Chondrocyte Viability during Cold Storage

INTRODUCTION: Successful repair of full thickness defects to articular cartilage remains a clinical and scientific challenge. The use of fresh osteochondral allografts to replace damaged articular cartilage with healthy tissues harvested from human cadavers is a viable treatment option. Allografts are stored at 4C prior to transplantation to await final culture results that can take two to thre...

Fruit quality preservation of 'Laetitia' plums under controlled atmosphere storage.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of controlled atmosphere (CA) on quality preservation of 'Laetitia' plums, mainly on internal breakdown, in order to determine the best CA storage conditions. Two experiments were carried out one in 2010, and another in 2011. In 2010, besides cold storage (CS; 21.0 kPa O2 + 0.03 kPa CO2), the fruits were stored under the following CA condit...

Delaying establishment of controlled atmosphere or CO2 exposure reduces ‘Fuji’ apple CO2 injury without excessive fruit quality loss

Storage of ‘Fuji’ apple fruit in a high CO2 (3 kPa) and low O2 (1.5 kPa) controlled atmosphere (CA) reduced firmness and titratable acidity (TA) loss during long term storage. This CA environment also induced development of internal CO2-injury (brown-heart) and slowed the disappearance of watercore. The symptoms of internal CO2-injury were first detected 15 days after CA establishment and the s...

Physico-chemical changes in dabai (Canarium odontophyllum Miq.) fruit during modified atmosphere storage

Dabai or Canarium odontophyllum Miq., from the family Burseraceae, is an important indigenous fruit to Borneo Island. However, it is a highly perishable fruit with short shelf life. Postharvest technology such as modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) can be used to maintain highly perishable fresh fruit quality and increase its shelf life. There is not much work has been carried out to study effe...

Comparison of Pome Fruit Firmness Testing Instruments