COST 94

European Commission Directorate-General For Research And Innovation

Description

The postharvest treatment of fruit and vegetables: Determination and prediction of optimum harvest date of apples and pears
Vegetable production

Sujets

• Agricultural policy
• Fruit

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-RESEARCH-AND-INNOVATION
• Nombre de lectures: 29
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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European Commission
COST 94
The postharvest treatment
of fruit and vegetables
HARVEST DATE
Determination and
prediction of optimum
harvest date of apples
and pears
Edited by
Anton de Jager
Wilhelminadorp, The Netherlands
David Johnson
East Mailing, UK
Ernst Hohn
Wadenswil, Switzerland COST 94: THE POSTHARVEST TREATMENT OF FRUIT AN D VEGETABLES European Commission
COST 94
The postharvest treatment of fruit and vegetables
Determination and
prediction of optimum
harvest date of
apples and pears
Proceedings of a meeting of the
Working Group on optimum harvest date
held on 9 and 10 June in Lofthus, Norway
Edited by
Anton de Jager
Wilhelminadorp, The Netherlands
David Johnson
East Mailing, UK
Ernst Hohn
Wadenswil, Switzerland Cataloguing data can be found at the end of publication.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1996
ISBN 92-827-5427-8
© ECSC-EC-EAEC, Brussels · Luxembourg, 1996
Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is
acknowledged.
Printed in United Kingdom CONTENTS
Preface by Anton de Jager, David Johnson and Ernst Höhn 7
Introduction to COST 94 by Ernst Höhn and Zoltan Somogyi 9
Workshop Programme 11
Optimum harvest date for different apple cultivar in the 15
'Bodensee' area
J. STREIF, Germany
Prediction of optimum harvest date of Jonagold 21
Α. DE JAGER and F.P.M.M. ROELOFS, Netherlands
Optimum harvest date of some apple varieties in the 33
'Rhineland' from 1989 to 1992
H. BAUMANN, Germany
Ten years of optimum harvest date data for the variety 'Cox's 39
Orange Pippin'
M.T. LUTON, England
Influence of ecological conditions on optimum harvest date in 49
Slovenia
J.HRJJBAR, A. PLESTENJAK, M. SIMSIC and
D. PITAKO, Slovenia
Evaluation of harvest indexes of apples grown in Hungary 53
P. MERÉSZ, P. SASS and T. LOVASZ, y
Optimum harvest date of 4 apple cultivare in southern Poland 61
J. SKRZYNSKI, Poland
Determination ofharvest date of apple cultivare in Saxony 67
C. WTLCKE, Germany
Optimum harvest date of Jonagold in central Poland 77
K. RUTKOWSKI, A. MISZCZAK and
W. PLOCHARSKI, Poland
Simultaneous quantitation of acids and sugars as their TMS­silyl 83
(oxime) dérivâtes by GC/MS: composition of six apple cultivars
as a function of their harvesting and storage time
S. TISZA, P. SASS and I. MOLNAR­PERL, Hungary The postharvest appearance of bruising damage is influenced by 99
fruit maturity and development at harvest
L. SEKSE, Norway
Influence of harvest date on fruit quality and storability in the 105
varieties Breaeburn and Gala
K. FRANSNELLI AND C. CASERA, Italy
The distribution of ripening of Jonagold and Golden Delicious 117
apples within the tree
G. GOFFENGS and M. HERREGODS, Belgium
Does spur age affect variation within the fruit maturity or 127
quality within the tree?
J SKRZYNSKI and J. STREIF, Poland, Germany
Maturity indices to predict optimum harvest date for the storage 133
of Conference pears in the UK
D.S. JOHNSON and M.T. LUTON, England
Maturity indices to predict optimum harvest date for the storage 149
of Conference pears in Switzerland
E. HÖHN, D. DÄTWYLER AND F. GASSER,
Switzerland
Harvesting index of Comice pears by a multivariate method in 157
relation to post-storage quality
P. ECCHER-ZERBI, M. GRASSI, S. PEREGO,
G.L. SPADA and C. LIVERANI, Italy
List of attendants to the workshop 165