kiwifruit softening and the spread of gray mold on the fruit are the most important factors to be considered in kiwifruit storage life. in this study, the effect of calcium chloride (0, 1, 2, 4 and 8 percent) for 2, 4 and 8 minutes of dipping time were examined to improve the fruit physicochemical characteristics. following fruits being dried (24 hours), they were stored at 0.5oc and 85-90% rh ...

Firmness is an important parameter in determining the maturity and quality grade of apple fruit. The objective of this research was to mprove the multispectral imaging system used in our previous studies and refine scattering analysis methods for more effectively measuring pple fruit firmness. An improved multispectral imaging system equipped with a light intensity controller was used to measur...

in the current research, salicylic acid and putrescine treatments solutions each with 0, 0.5, 1, and 2 mm/l levels were sprayed on the ‘granny smith’ apple trees in three preharvest stages. the treatments were applied based on factorial experiment in the randomized complete block design. weight loss, fruit firmness, total soluble solids (tss), titratable acidity (ta), ph, tss/ta, peel color, an...

harvesting of sour cherries is very difficult task which is done either by machine or hand. in order to facilitate fruits harvesting ethephone with different densities is used. in this research work iranian produced ethephone with density of 1.18 g/cm3 and england produced ethephone with density of 1.45 g/cm3 was utilized with different concentration (0, 150, 225 and 300) in a 2×4 factorial exp...