Mitigation of chilling injury with hot water treatment to improve early-season ‘HASS’ avocado (Persea americana) fruit peel colour

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 111299
Author(s):  
Milton Vega-Alvarez ◽  
Nancy Y. Salazar-Salas ◽  
Gabriela López-Angulo ◽  
Karen V. Pineda-Hidalgo ◽  
Martha E. López-López ◽  
...  

HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan B. Woolf ◽  
Michael Lay-Yee

`Hass' avocados [Persea americana Mill.] were pretreated in water (38 °C for up to 120 min) immediately before 50 °C hot water treatments of up to 10 min. Fruit were stored for 1 week at 6 °C and ripened at 20 °C. External browning was evaluated immediately upon removal from cold storage, and fruit quality evaluated when fruit were ripe. Pretreatments at 38 °C tended to reduce the levels of external browning, skin hardening, and internal disorders, such as tissue breakdown and body rots, that were associated, and increased, with longer hot water treatments. A pretreatment of 60 min was the most effective for eliminating external browning, and reducing hardening of the skin when fruit were ripe following hot water treatment. Examination of heat shock protein (hsp) gene expression in avocado skin tissue, showed that levels of hspl7 and hsp70 homologous mRNA increased with increasing pretreatment duration. The results demonstrate that 38 °C pretreatments increase the tolerance of avocado fruit to subsequent hot water treatments.


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Vol 186 ◽  
pp. 111838
Author(s):  
Nancy Y. Salazar-Salas ◽  
Dennise A. Chairez-Vega ◽  
Milton Vega-Alvarez ◽  
David G. González-Nuñez ◽  
Karen V. Pineda-Hidalgo ◽  
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1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lay-Yee ◽  
Sarah Ball ◽  
Shelley K. Forbes ◽  
Allan B. Woolf

HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 1247-1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan B. Woolf

`Hass' avocado (Persea americana Mill.) fruit were heat treated in water at 38 °C for 0 to 120 minutes, and stored at 0.5 °C for up to 28 days. After storage, fruit were ripened at 20 °C and their quality evaluated. External chilling injury (CI) developed during storage in nonheated fruit. Skin (exocarp) sectioning showed that browning developed from the base of the exocarp, and with longer storage, this browning moved outwards toward the epidermis. Longer durations of hot water treatment (HWT) progressively reduced CI; 60 minutes was the optimal duration that eliminated external CI, while best maintaining fruit quality. Concomitantly, electrolyte leakage of heated skin tissue increased ≈70% during storage, whereas electrolyte leakage of nonheated skin tissue increased ≈480% over the same period. Thus, significant protection was conferred by HWTs against low temperature damage to avocados and these effects are reflected in the morphology and physiology of the skin tissue.


BMC Genomics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neta Luria ◽  
Noa Sela ◽  
Mor Yaari ◽  
Oleg Feygenberg ◽  
Ilana Kobiler ◽  
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