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Measuring transpiration rates of tomato and other detached fruit.

Shirazi, A., and Cameron, A. C.

HortScience. Volume 28, Number 10, Oct 1993. Pages 1035-1038.

1993

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Measuring transpiration rates of tomato and other detached fruit.

A method was developed to measure transpiration rates and apparent watervapor permeability coefficients (P'H2O) of detached fruit using an analytical balance equipped with a humidity chamber, wide-range humidity-generating and sensing devices, and a datalogger. The system was designed to monitor weight changes with time and, hence, weight loss of individual fruit during exposure to specific relative humidities (RHs) and temperatures. Weight loss was corrected for loss due to respiratory exchange and CO2 before calculating P'H2O. Values of P'H2O for tomatoes obtained using this method over periods of 5 minutes to 24 hours ranged from 3 to 12 nmol-cm-1.g-1.kPa-1 at 20C, depending on the experimental conditions. These values are similar to previously published values and to those obtained in a conventional weight-loss experiment, which involved intermittent weighing. P'H2O for tomatoes dropped approximately 15% in 24 hours. P'H2O increased with a transient increase in RH; the extent of the increase was variable from fruit to fruit, ranging from 5% to 100% over 30% to 90% RH. The change was reversible in that P'H2O increased and decreased within minutes following shifts in RH. Similar changes were found for strawberry P'H2O. The increase in P'H2O may be due, in part, to a direct effect of water vapor on the water transport properties of the cuticular polymer and surface temperature depression as a result of evaporative cooling. At 50% RH and 20C, water vapor diffuses from tomatoes 50 times faster than O2, enters on a molar basis. This information will be useful for modeling RH changes in modified-atmosphere packages.