BACKGROUND In fleshy fruits, induced programmed cell death (PCD) has been observed in heat-treated tomato, and in ethylene-treated and low-temperature exposure in immature cucumber. No other fleshy fruit has been evaluated ...

Storage at low temperature is a common practice to extend the market life of many vegetables. Among other horticultural crops, tomato fruit suffers chilling injury when it is storage under refrigerated conditions. Much ...

Chilling Injury (CI) in pomegranates can appear over 45 days of confinement on low temperatures (2-4°C), generating losses on the fruit’s quality, affecting on their exportation. A correlation between the apparition of CI ...

Peaches ripen and deteriorate rapidly at room temperature. Therefore, refrigeration is used to slow these processes and to extend fruit market life; however, many fruits develop chilling injury (CI) during storage at low ...

Prevention of post-harvest fruit losses is important to increase food availability. In the case of tomato, postharvest storage at low temperature and the subsequent handling and distribution of fruit is limited by chilling ...

The remodeling of membrane composition by changes in phospholipid head groups and fatty acids (FA) degree of unsaturation has been associated with the maintenance of membrane homeostasis under stress conditions. Overall ...

BACKGROUND: Vegetable grafting has been increasingly evaluated to improve preharvest tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, very few studies have identified rootstock–scion combinations able to improve fruit ...

Reconfiguration of the metabolome is a key component involved in the acclimation to cold in plants; however, few studies have been devoted to the analysis of the overall metabolite changes after cold storage of fruits prior ...