REVIEW ON THE STUDIES ON TOMATO STORABILITY

Studies on tomato storability in China in 1990’s can be summarised as follows: (1) tomato storage property was quantitatively controlled by multi-genes, additive effect was prior to partial dominant effect in heredity. (2) tomato storability was closely related with fruit anatomic structure, the thickness of cuticular layer in fruit could be used as an index to predict tomato cultivar storability; (3) Supply of trace fertilizers during fruit-setting period led to the increase on the thickness of epiderm cell wall, the effect order was B>B+Ca>Ca>Mn>Zn, the thicker the cell wall is, the more the storability is. (4) aseptics such as Thiophanate methyl, Bavistin, Captan and other fruit-vegetable antiseptic had positive effects on keeping tomato fruit fresh, but influenced the nutrients in fruit, specially destroying Vc, degrading acidity and increasing sugar content.

VI International Symposium on Processing Tomato & Workshop on Irrigation & Fertigation of Processing Tomato

L. Yan

Tomato, Storability, Heredity, Anatomic structure, Micronutrient, Aseptic

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1999.487.13