Preharvest temperature affects chilling injury in dessert bananas during storage

Bugaud, C., Joannès-Dumec, C., Louisor, J., Tixier, P., Salmon, F
2016

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 96, 2384-2390.

Resumen

The effect of temperature on chilling injury during fruit growth was studied in a new banana hybrid CIRAD925 in which seasonal variability in chilling susceptibility was observed when fruits were stored at 13 °C. The relationship between the response to chilling (presence/absence) and the temperature during banana fruit growth was examined with a logistic regression model. An explanatory variable XN ,P was defined as the mean temperature during a period, expressed in weeks, which began N week(s) after flowering and lasted P week(s). The model was calibrated with 143 bunches with a green life of 30 ± 5 days and validated with 156 bunches grown in six plots under different growing conditions. Chilling injury was best predicted by the mean temperature during the period beginning one week after flowering and lasting five weeks (X1 ,5 ). Above a mean temperature of 24.1 °C in the period concerned, banana fruits had a 95% probability of chilling injury at 13 °C. Below a temperature of 23.4 °C, banana fruits only had a 5% probability of chilling injury. Our results provide a tool to predict chilling susceptibility in banana fruit whatever the thermal conditions in tropical regions.

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