Obsteinlagerung 2016 - Fruit storage 2016

There is an increasing pressure, to deliver fruits that fulfill the high expectations of the consumers. Therefore post-harvest methods play a more and more important role for quality preservation. This is especially important for pears, for which since 2013 the Smart-FreshTM method is authorized in Switzerland. This method controls the Ethylene production of this climacteric fruit with the Ethylene antagonist 1-MCP and can be an additional treatment to standard preservation methods (controlled atmosphere).
The variety Conférence reacts particularly strong to the treatment of Smart-Fresh, even during several days of post-storage at 20 °C the ripening process is stopped. Several tests have been executed with the goal to optimize the treatment, which means to not stop the post-ripening process completely.
Still more experiences are needed with the varieties Williams, Kaiser Alexander and Harrow Sweet, but over one to two seasons showed highly promising results.

Documents

Fruit storage 2016 ()

Details

Activity type

Publication in other stakeholder journal/magazine

Activity work package

Performance of new fruit varieties

Activity number

Agroscope-WP2-A14

Activity contact

Sarah Perren

Agroscope
Schloss 1
Postfach
8820 Wädenswil
Schweiz

Tel. +41 58 460 61 99
[email protected]

Activity partner

AGROSCOPE

Activity country

Switzerland

Last edit

21-07-2017