Volume 62 Number 2 Article 2
Year 2008 Month 4
Title: Potential of Nonmelting Flesh Peaches for the Early Season Fresh Market
Authors: T.G. Beckmann, G.W. Krewer, J.X. Chaparro, W.B. Sherman
Abstract:
The post-harvest behavior of commercial, moderate-chill, melting flesh peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]
cultivars (‘Flordaking’, ‘Flordacrest’, ‘June Gold’ and ‘Juneprince’) was compared to recently released nonmelting
flesh cultivars (‘Gulfking’, ‘Gulfcrest’, ‘Gulfcrimson’ and ‘Gulfprince’) over four seasons.
Storage protocol
was designed to approximate conditions likely to be encountered during shipment to market via refrigerated truck
and subsequent retail marketing, i.e. 5 d at 4°C followed by 2 d at 20°C. The nonmelting flesh cultivars displayed
superior post-storage firmness compared to current commercial melting flesh cultivars.
Additionally, the nonmelting
flesh cultivars generally displayed superior cropping ability, fruit shape, red skin blush, ground color development,
and soluble solids/titratable acidity ratios.
Moreover, they generally were of comparable marketable size and had a
reduced incidence of split and shattered pits.
This suggests that these new nonmelting flesh cultivars merit testing
as alternatives to current commercial melting flesh cultivars.
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