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Effect of combined hypobaric and cold storage on defense-related enzymes in postharvest peach fruit during ripening

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Peach (Prunus persica) fruit rapidly loses its quality and is highly perishable at ambient temperature after harvest, and postharvest hypobaric treatment (HT) is a potential new technique to delay senescence. We aimed to investigate the postharvest physiology of peach fruit stored under 55 ± 5 kPa and 4 ± 0.5 °C for 16 days. Biochemical analysis of peach showed that HT maintained higher firmness and lower MDA content, and significantly increased respiration rate compared to CK, but postponed respiration peak. SOD and PPO enzymes were increased remarkably (p < 0.05) on enzyme and gene level. HT obviously inhibited CAT activity and had no significant (p < 0.05) effect on PAL and APX activity. Studies of defense-related genes are required to further explore the induced resistance mechanisms of hypobaric treatments. The results suggested that HT did not stimulate all common enzymatic activities as the previous study stated, SOD and PPO played a vital important role in peach cell defense under the hypobaric condition in this research.

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This study was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32101860) and 2021 Jiangsu Basic Science (natural science) research project (21KJD550001).

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  1. College of Biological and Food Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Suzhou, 215500, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    **aoqin Wu & Hao Wu

  2. College of Food Science and Engineering, Nan**g Agricultural University, Nan**g, 210095, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    **aoqin Wu & Zhifang Yu

  3. Institute of Horticulture, Jiangsu Academy of Agriculture, Jiangsu, 210095, People’s Republic of China

    Mingliang Yu & Ruijuan Ma

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Wu, X., Wu, H., Yu, M. et al. Effect of combined hypobaric and cold storage on defense-related enzymes in postharvest peach fruit during ripening. Acta Physiol Plant 44, 93 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11738-022-03430-6

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