Several types of physiological response to different humidities in fruits and vegetables.
Xue YanBin, Kubo, Y., Inaba, A. and Nakamura, R.
Scientific Reports of the Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University Year: 1997 Issue: No. 86 Pages: 61-69 Ref: 18 ref.
1997
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Effects of high (93-98%) and low (52-65%) RH on the respiration rate and ethylene production of 63 kinds of fruits, vegetables and flowers were investigated. From the respiratory response to RH, they could be classified into 3 groups: accelerative, inhibitive and insensitive at low RH. The first group included climacteric fruits such as bananas, pears and kiwifruits; the majority of the fruit vegetables; and root vegetables such as tap roots, tubers and tuberous roots. The second group included Chinese pears (cv. Yali [Pyrus bretschneideri]), Japanese pears (cv. Nijisseiki [P. pyrifolia]), strawberries, the majority of the leaf vegetables, edible fungi and flowers. The third group included grapes and oranges. Furthermore, by including data on endogenous ethylene production at low RH, they could be classified into 8 groups based on physiological response to low RH. These results seem to indicate that water deficit stress at low RH was positively correlated to their physiological response in secon
dary order.