However, children in control centers consumed more servings of fruit post-intervention (0.15 (0.25)) than children in the intervention centers (−0.33 (0.72)).
Extending the fruit post-harvest observation up to 60 days after harvest we have in fact observed that the sample treated with 1-MCP reached almost the same maximum amount of ethylene suggesting such feed back control mechanisms operate during ripening.
The expression of ABA biosynthesis genes, such as neoxantin synthase (NSY) and 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (LeNCED), is reduced in fruits post pollination [ 81].
In both studies, an ABA 8'-hydroxylase gene (cytochrome P450 family member) involved in ABA catabolism [ 74], was more abundant in fruits post pollination.
Therefore, the large number of genes identified as having altered expression in response to the individual or combined effects of ripening and long-term cold storage, demonstrates the complexity of the processes that are occurring in peach fruits post harvest and the differential expression of gene families.
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Fruit development post anthesis can be divided into four major stages fruit set, cell division, cell expansion and ripening [ 1– 3].
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and (iii) How to control the rate of softening and extend shelf life of fleshy fruits during post harvest (PH) period?
The sucrose content of mature fruit and post-harvest losses of sucrose might be influenced by up-regulation of a specific soluble (vacuolar) acid invertase in climacteric melon fruits, while expression of two invertase inhibitors could explain the high and stable levels of sucrose in non-climacteric melon fruits, and thus be an important factor in their longer shelf-life.
