Abstract
Development
of disorders during postharvest ripening and storage of fruit depends
on a range of preharvest factors. The most obvious of these is maturity
of fruit at harvest. However, a number of other factors may be just as
important in ripening-related disorders and in determining how fruit
respond to low temperatures or other imposed postharvest conditions.
Fruiting position on the tree and fruit temperature history are two of
the most important of
these factors. In apples, position strongly
influences fruit mineral contents, and consequently incidence of
postharvest disorders such as bitter pit. This positional effect may
reflect pollination and cropping effects, or more direct differences in
flow of minerals and water into developing fruit. In both apples and
avocado fruit, we have shown that high temperatures experienced by fruit
on the tree can influence the response of those fruit to low and high
postharvest
temperatures. Specific disorders such as watercore in apples and
chilling injury in avocado can also be related to fruit exposure to
sunlight and high temperatures; disorders such as scald in apples may be
related to frequency of low temperature exposure over the season.
Identification of preharvest factors raises the possibility of producing
fruit with less predisposition to postharvest disorders.
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