ISHS Acta Horticulturae 343: Physiological Basis of Postharvest Technologies
FUNCTIONAL CHANGES OF APPLE CELL MEMBRANES DURING STORAGE |
| Authors: | P. Merész, T. Lovasz, P. Sass, P. Laszlo, I. Molnar-Perl |
| Abstract:
Hungary is in a special situation with respect to fruit growing. This is especially true for apple growing and processing, storage, and trading, ie. management of apple. The large quantitiy (1 million T/year) of harvested apple is four times more than that required by the country. There is, therefore, great interest in storage-research which focuses on simple cooling and storage to maintain good quality apples by variety selection and cultivation methods (e.g., by good decisions about the optimum picking date.). The main purposes of our research are to: 1) continuously collect informations about characteristics of growing cultivars by adequate methods, 2) develop and adapt appropriate methods for the control of the physiological processes, and 3) derive mathematical descriptions and models of the membrane processes to predict the quality changes during the storage. | |
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