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Does total antioxidant capacity play a central role in postharvest deterioration of 'Sweetheart' sweet cherry fruit?

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dc.creator Comabella, Eva
dc.creator Belge, Burcu
dc.creator Lara Ayala, Isabel
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2025-11-03T12:17:36Z
dc.date.available 2025-11-03T12:17:36Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1161.82
dc.identifier 0567-7572
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/66495
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/24538
dc.description 'Sweetheart' cherries (Prunus avium L.) have sweet flavour, bright red colour and a distinctive heart shape which contributes to their wide commercial acceptance. They display also comparatively high firmness and long shelf-life potential. Enzyme-catalysed disassembly of cell walls has been generally targeted as the main factor accounting for ripening-related changes in fruit firmness and overall texture, but the biochemical mechanisms involved in this process appear to include additional factors such as oxidative scission of cell wall polysaccharides. In this study, 'Sweetheart' fruit were hand-collected at commercial maturity, and kept at 0 ºC for 15 or 30 days plus 3 days at 20 ºC to mimic their retail period. Firmness, weight loss and juiciness, together with the incidence of decay and stem browning, were chosen as indicators of commercial quality of fruit. Cell wall materials were extracted and fractionated, related enzyme activities were assessed, and ascorbic acid content as well as radical scavenging activity (RSA) were also determined. Fruit displaying higher RSA showed higher values for firmness and lower weight loss, decay and stem browning incidence. Higher firmness levels were associated to higher RSA and to yields of the cell wall fractions enriched in convalently-bound pectins and hemicelluloses. β-galactosidase, pectinmethylesterase and endo-1,4-β-D-glucanase activities correlated inversely to firmness, while pectate lyase activity appeared to be relevant for solubilisation of cell wall materials and was inversely related to ascorbic acid content.
dc.description B. Belge is the recipient of a FI-DGR grant from AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya). This work was funded through the AGL2010-14801/ALI project, granted by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) of Spain.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//AGL2010-14801/ES/ESTUDIO DE FACTORES RELACIONADOS CON EL ABLANDAMIENTO DE FRUTOS DE HUESO (CEREZA Y MELOCOTON). RELEVANCIA PARA EL POTENCIAL DE CONSERVACION Y LA CALIDAD NUTRICIONAL/
dc.relation Versió preprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2017.1161.82
dc.relation Acta Horticulturae (ISHS), 2017, vol. 1161, p. 515-522
dc.rights (c) Internacional Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), 2017
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject ascorbic acid
dc.subject antioxidant capacity
dc.subject cell wall
dc.subject Prunus avium L.
dc.subject post-harvest quality
dc.subject Fruita
dc.subject Emmagatzematge d'aliments
dc.subject Tecnologia postcollita
dc.subject Fruit
dc.subject Food storage
dc.subject Postharvest technology
dc.title Does total antioxidant capacity play a central role in postharvest deterioration of 'Sweetheart' sweet cherry fruit?
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion


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