Owing to the high degree of perishability fruit, peach industry faces serious challenges tackling physiological disorders, microbial/chemical decay, and suboptimal quality fruit during following cold storage. The present study was aimed investigate effects spray applications calcium chloride (CaCl2) at various stages growth development, on ripening, flesh softening, chilling injury (CI) nutriti...

In this study, the effect of melatonin on the postharvest ripening and quality improvement of tomato fruit was carried out. The tomatoes were immersed in exogenous melatonin for 2h, and then the related physiological indicators and the expression of genes during post-harvest life were evaluated. Compared with control check (CK), the 50 µM melatonin treatment significantly increased lycopene lev...

The strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) is one of the most preferred fresh fruit worldwide, accumulates numerous flavonoids but has limited shelf life due to excessive tissue softening caused by cell wall degradation. Since lignin is one of the polymers that strengthen plant cell walls and might contribute to some extent to fruit firmness monolignol biosynthesis was studied in strawberry fruit. Ci...

The development of science and technology, and especially of information technology, has made available many non-destructive methods for analysis of materials, which can also be applied to fruits. The fruit industry needs non-destructive techniques for on-line sorting and certifying high quality fruit. Electronic noses, acoustic methods and optical methods like near infrared spectroscopy are me...

Plum fruit has a short shelf life with a rapid deterioration in quality after harvest. The primary goal of this study is to investigate and compare the effect of putrescine and salicylic acid on quality properties and antioxidant activity of plum during storage. The plum fruits (cv. 'Santa Rosa') were harvested at the mature ripe stage, and dipped in different concentrations of putrescine (1, 2...

Experiments were carried out in which the dependence of the fractional softening on temperature, time and strain rate was determined in a 304H stainless steel. Three prestrain ranges were identified pertaining to three different post-deformation softening behaviors: 1) prestraining to below the DRX critical strain: strongly strain dependent softening by SRX alone with softening kinetics control...

Pre-storage treatment of superficial scald-susceptible apple and pear fruits with the blocker of ethylene action 1-methylcyclopropene (1CP) inhibits the synthesis of -farnesene. Consequently, accumulation of -farnesene and its conjugated trienol (CTol) oxidation products n the fruit skin is diminished, and scald is largely prevented. In cold-stored apple fruit, a marked increase in expression o...

In contrast to the progress in research on physiological disorders relating shelf life fruit crops, it has been difficult non-destructively predict their occurrence. Recent high-tech instruments have gradually enabled non-destructive predictions for various some while there are still issues terms of efficiency and costs. Here, we propose application a deep neural network (or simply learning) si...