Volume 55 Number 1 Article 3
Year 2001 Month 1
Title: Factors Affecting Apple Fruit Firmness- A Review
Authors: J.R. DeEll, S. Khanizadeh, F. Saad, and D.C. Ferree
Abstract:
Fruit firmness is one of the most important characteristics of apple quality and
therefore, obtaining and maintaining apple
fruit firmness from the orchard through to
the consumer tends to be one of the major
issues facing the industry.
Apple fruit firmness tends to be influenced greatly by
many preharvest factors, such as genetics,
cultural practices, and the applications of
fertilizers or growth regulators.
In addition, many postharvest factors have an
enormous effect on apple firmness, such as
maturity at harvest, cooling, postharvest
dips, and storage conditions.
This article is
a review of the preharvest and postharvest
factors that have been shown to affect
apple fruit firmness.
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