Effect of parthenocarpy,peeling and fruit age on the changes in volume and specific gravity of cucumber fruits during storage at 20°C |
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| Authors: | R Sakiyama Yuzo Nakamura S Nakamura |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi Japan |
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| Abstract: | Either parthenocarpically grown, peeled or at any stage of picking, cucumber fruits showed a tendency to increase in volume and decrease in specific gravity while they were stored under unsaturated vapour pressure at 20°C. The amount of change varied according to the treatment.Recovery from a flaccid appearance occurred in all fruit except very young ones. In those fruits the incipient recovery from wilting, an increase in volume and a decrease in specific gravity, coincided.Parthenocarpic fruits showed an increase in volume at almost the same rate in any transverse quarter of a fruit, in contrast to the pollinated ones in which the most distal quarter enlarged more than the other parts. Pithy appearance of the fruit wall was evenly distributed through a parthenocarpic fruit to a moderate degree, but at the proximal half of a pollinated one it was severe. |
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