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Post-harvest calcium chloride treatments influence fruit firmness, cell wall components and cell wall hydrolyzing enzymes of Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk.) fruits during storage

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Ber fruits of two varieties having variable shelf lives viz. Umran (8–9 days) and Kaithali (4–5 days) given post-harvest treatments of calcium chloride (1% and 2%) were analyzed for various cell wall components, cell wall hydrolyzing enzymes and fruit firmness at 2 days interval until complete decay. There was a continuous decrease in cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin contents during storage in both the varieties with more reduction in Kaithali, a variety having short shelf-life. The decline in cell wall components was accompanied by parallel increase in activities of cellulase, polygalacturonase (PG) and pectin methylesterase (PME). Post-harvest treatment of Ber fruits with calcium chloride resulted in significantly lowering of activities of cellulase (20–22%), PG (23–29%) and PME (25–28%) thereby retaining higher cell wall components viz. cellulose (9–11%), hemicellulose (7–8%) and pectin (12–13%) as compared to their respective control in both the varieties. The delay in cell wall hydrolysis, as mediated by calcium chloride corresponded to the higher retention of fruit firmness.

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    Veena Jain, Shilpa Chawla, Poonam Choudhary & Sunita Jain

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Jain, V., Chawla, S., Choudhary, P. et al. Post-harvest calcium chloride treatments influence fruit firmness, cell wall components and cell wall hydrolyzing enzymes of Ber (Ziziphus mauritiana Lamk.) fruits during storage. J Food Sci Technol 56, 4535–4542 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-019-03934-z

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