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Howto get and preserve good quality in apples – a short survey
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Factors affecting apple quality
• Bruising/Mechanical damage• Physiological disorders
– Bitter Pit– Scald– Water core– Sunburn (sunscald)– Internal browning
• Calcium• Temperature management• Storage atmosphere
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Bruising/ Mechanical damage
• Increased water losses
• Shortened storage life
• Decreased product value
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Mechanical damage
• Bruising (skin still intact) which maybe caused by f.ex.:– Picking in wet weather
– No padding in wooden boxes
– Rough transport conditions
– Rough handling in sorting/ packing house
– Overfilled boxes in pallets
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Mechanical damage
• Cuts (healed and not healed) which may be caused by f.ex.:– Nails
– Edges in boxes
– Sorting/ packing equipment
– Overfilled boxes
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Careful picking of dry apples
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Careful transfer to padded bins
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Careful transfer from bins to sorting equipment
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Proper sorting equipment
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Careful packing
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Careful packing
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Bitter pit in apples
Groups of cells with lowcalcium levels and therefore rapid senescence
Necrotic (dead) cells under the skin, first around the blossom end, later devlopingover the rest of the fruit
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Bitter pit
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Development of bitter pit
Bitter pit usually develops after storage, when the fruit it broughtout into higher temperatures, maybe after arriving at the destination and when displayed in a shop
Longer storage increases the risk
Bitter pit may, in very severe casesdevelop while the fruit is still sitting on the tree but this is unusual.
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Risk factors for bitter pit
• Strong vegetative growth in trees
• Large fruits
• Low calcium levels
• High availability of nitrogen in late season
• Late harvests
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Belle de BoskoopCox OrangeGolden deliciousGranny SmithMarigoldJonathanGravenstein
More sensitive Less sensitive
Varietal differences – bitter pit
MacintoshSpartanLoboGalaFuji’
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As low calcium levels are central in the development of bitter pit, factors that affect fruit Calciumlevels have to be paid attentionto.
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Scald
Irregular patches of brown (damaged cells) on the fruitskin.
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Scald in apples
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Scald
•Probably a type of chilling injury
•Usually occurs after 3 months of storage
•Develops 3-7 days after warming the fruit
•Connected to low levels of calcium but not as strongly as bitter pit
•Decreases with late harvest
•Decreases in low oxygen storage
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Varying susceptibility to Scald
Susceptible varietiesGranny SmithGolden delicious
Moderately susceptible varietiesGalaFuji
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A late harvest
• May increase the risk for bitter pit
– But
• May decrease the risk for scald!!!
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Watercore
• Watersoaked regions in the flesh near the core and vascular bundles.
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Risk factors for water core
• Large fruit– Excessive thinning
– High leaf to fruit ratio
• Low fruit calcium
• High fruit nitrogen
• High light exposure
• Late harvests
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Sunburn(sunscald)
White, tan or yellow patches on the sun side of the fruit.
Injured areas can turn brown on the tree.
Injury to the flesh can occur.
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Risk factors for sunscald
• Apple production in – high temperatures, and
– Clear skies
• Heavy crops
• Water stress
• Low calcium concentration
• Heavy crops
• Granny Smith
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Internal browning
Brown discolouration in the flesh, often in or near the core.
Symptoms are seen early in storage and may increase in severity.
Probably a CO2 injury
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Risk factors for internal browning
• Late harvest
• High CO2 in storage
• Delayed cooling after harvest
• Temperatures above 3º in storage
• Bad ventilation in storage
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Calciumin the mainatinance of apple quality
• Storability of apples is related to fruit Calcium levels (and K/Ca ratio)
• Many physiological disorders have been connected with low calcium levels in apples– Bitter pit
– Scald
– Sunburn
– Watercore
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Calcium uptake and water
• Calcium from the ground is transported by the water taken up by the tree. – So little water menas little calcium to the fruit
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Calcium uptake and soil types
• A light sandy soild dries out muchquicker than a clay soil.
So, in a dry spring, the risk for calciumdeficiency is greater on a light sandysoil
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Calcium uptake in time
• Most of the calcium in apples is taken up during the first 6 weeksafter flowering.– So a dry spring means less calcium to the fruit
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Calcium content and autumn rains
– BUT, a lot of water late in the season, will not bring much more calcium.
– Instead it promotes an increase of fruit size which ”dilutes” the calcium in the fruit.
– Thus, when a dry spring is followed by a wetautumn, the risk for low calcium in fruitsincreases.
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Calcium and pips (seeds)
• Pips (i.e. the auxin in the seeds) helpattract Calcium to the fruit– Hence, a greater number of pips in the fruitmeans a lower risk for low calcium levels
• Some varieties require crosspollination.– The further away the pollinating variety is, the lower the number of seeds.
• As a rule of thumb, a pollinating varietyshould not be further than 25 meters away.
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Proper pollination is essential in some varieties
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Leaf/ fruit ratio and calciumlevels in fruit
• A large leaf/ fruit ratio will increasethe risk for low calcium levels. Measures that increase leaf/ fruitratio will therefore increase the risk for bitter pit.– Severe pruning
– Young trees
– Lots of available nitrogen
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Proper pruning is required to ensure fruit quality
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Temperature
• Temperature has an effect on a number of processes that influence quality and storage life– Respiration– Water losses– Ethylene production– Effect of ethylene in the air– Rate of enzyme activity
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Carrot shelf life in different temperatures
Storage life, days
Temperature in degrees celsius
Carrots
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Ascorbic acid loss in parsley stored at different temperatures
Ascorbic acidmg/ 100g fw parsley
Weeks in storageharvest
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Temperature management
• Rapid cooling after harvest
• Keeping an unbroken cold chain after harvest
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Storage atmosphere
• CA – controlled atmosphere– Low oxygen
– Increased carbon dioxide
• ULO – Ultra low oxygen– A type of CA with oxygen levels under 1 %
• Is a complement to low temperature but cannot replace it
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Cultivar
Oxygen,
%
Carbon
dioxide,
%
Temp,
degrees C
Storage,
months
Braeburn 1.8 1.0 0.7 "6-9
Fuji 1.4 1.0 0.3 "7-11
Gala 1.7 1.6 1.3 "2-9
Golden Delicious 1.6 2.3 0.5 "7-11
Granny Smith 1.4 2.0 0.6 "7-11
Idared 2.1 2.5 1.9 "7-10
Jonagold 1.4 2.7 0.9 "5-10
McIntosh 2.1 2.9 2.5 "5-10
Red deicious 1.6 1.8 0.0 "6-11
Royal Gala 1.7 1.8 "-0.0 "5-8
Source: University of California
Average optimum levels in CA-storage of popular apple varieties
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Low, but nonfreezing,temperaturesareessential forretaining apple quality
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