A comparison of anatomical changes between normal and chilling injury longan fruit pericarp.
Jaitrong, S., Rattanapanone N. and Boonyakiat D.
5th International Postharvest Symposium . Volume of Abstract . Verona, Italy 6-11 June 2004, p.69
2004
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A comparison of anatomical changes between normal and chilling injury longan fruit pericarp.
The anatomy of pericarp from longan fruit (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) cv. Daw has been compared between normal and chilling injury fruit.The normal pericarp thickness was 630-700 micron and consisted of three layers.The exocarp had discontinuous cuticle with many natural openings and some epidermal hairs.The subeidermal sclerenchyma layer was thick.The mesocarp had some parenchyma cells with large intercellular spaces as the main body of the pericarp.The endocarp was made up to a single thin layer of epidermal cells.However, during chilling injury, the pericarp showed the cuticle flakes, damaged epidermal hairs and fibrous tissue on the exocarp, and damaged parenchyma cell walls appeared in the mesocarp.