Alleviating Chilling Injury, Decay and Extending the Shelf Life of Pomegranate Fruit cv. ʽMalase-e-savehʼ by L-arginine Treatment

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Seyed Mohammad Hosseini molla ¹
• somayeh rastegar ²
• Valiollah Ghasemi Omran ³
• Orang Khademi ⁴

¹ Ph.D. Student of Postharvest Physiology and Technology Horticultural Crops, Department of Horticultural Science, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Horticultural ScienceCollege of Agriculture Hormozgan University Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Genetics and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute of Tabarestan, Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, Iran.

⁴ Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.

Keywords

• Ethylene
• Ascorbate peroxidase
• Phenylalanine ammonia lyase
• Browning
• Postharvest quality