Effects of preharvest, harvest and postharvest factors on the quality of pear (...

• Autor(es): Galvis-Sánchez, Andrea C. ; Fonseca, Susana C. ; Morais, Alcina M.M.B. ; Malcata, F. Xavier
• Data: 2004
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/3477
• Origem: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• Assunto(s): Gas composition; Date of harvest; Growing location; Firmness; Colour; Modelling
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Pears (cv. Rocha’) grown at two locations and picked up at various times during the harvest season were assessed for firmness and colour, following 9 mo of storage under air or under controlled atmosphere conditions. A second-order polynomial was able to accurately fit the effect of time of harvest on pear’s quality, in an essentially empirical modelling effort; the best estimates of the parameters therein depend on the growing location, as well as on the atmosphere gas composition prevailing during storage.