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Mechanical Resonance Method for Evaluation of Firmness of Peach Fruit

GOLIÁŠ, J., BEJČEK, L., GRATZ, P., KLUSÁČEK, S.

Original Title

Mechanical Resonance Method for Evaluation of Firmness of Peach Fruit

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

An investigation has been made to establish the basic relationship between the mechanical resonance, firmness, chemical composition and ethylene production during the maturity time and the ripening time of peach fruit. The non-destructive frequency response technique has been evaluated and the stiffness coefficient has been calculated to obtain the firmness of peach fruit. From the evaluation of ethylene production at the beginning of onset of climacteric ripening phase the stiffness coefficient is within 6 Hz/g - 10 Hz/g. The ripening phase of the fruit over the ripe stage gives the lowest value of the stiffness coefficient. The correlations between the results obtained by mechanical resonance method and other methods show very good matching

Keywords

mechanical resonance, peach fruit, firmness, stiffness

Authors

GOLIÁŠ, J., BEJČEK, L., GRATZ, P., KLUSÁČEK, S.

RIV year

2003

Released

1. 1. 2003

ISBN

0862-867X

Periodical

Horticultural Science

Year of study

30

Number

1

State

Czech Republic

Pages from

1

Pages to

5

Pages count

5

BibTex

@article{BUT40653,
  author="Jan {Goliáš} and Ludvík {Bejček} and Petr {Grätz} and Stanislav {Klusáček}",
  title="Mechanical Resonance Method for Evaluation of Firmness of Peach Fruit",
  journal="Horticultural Science",
  year="2003",
  volume="30",
  number="1",
  pages="5",
  issn="0862-867X"
}