期刊
PLANT SCIENCE
卷 217, 期 -, 页码 78-86出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2013.12.004
关键词
Zucchini; Postharvest; Carbohydrate; Raffinose; Polyols; Low-temperature
资金
- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [AGL2011-30568-C02-01]
- FPU (Ministerio de Educacion, Spain)
The postharvest handling of zucchini fruit includes low-temperature storage, making cold stress unavoidable. We have investigated the changes of soluble carbohydrates under this stress and its relation with weight loss and chilling injury in zucchini fruit during postharvest storage at 4 degrees C and 20 degrees C for up to 14 days. Two varieties with different degrees of chilling tolerance were compared: Natura, the more tolerant variety, and Sinatra, the variety that suffered more severe chilling-injury symptoms and weight loss. In both varieties, total soluble carbohydrates, reducing soluble carbohydrates and polyols content was generally higher during storage at 4 degrees C than at 20 degrees C, thus these parameters are related to the physiological response of zucchini fruit to cold stress. However, the raffinose content increased in Natura and Sinatra fruits during storage at 4 degrees C and 20 degrees C, although at 20 degrees C the increase in raffinose was more remarkable than at 4 degrees C in both varieties, so that the role of raffinose could be more likely related to dehydration than to chilling susceptibility of zucchini fruit. Glucose, fructose, pinitol, and acid invertase activity registered opposite trends in both varieties against chilling, increasing in Natura and decreasing in Sinatra. The increase in acid invertase activity in Natura fruit during cold storage could contribute in part to the increase of these reducing sugars, whose metabolism could be involved in the adaptation to postharvest cold storage. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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