eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Food and Nutrition Research 2333-1240 2014-09-09 2 9 617 620 10.12691/jfnr-2-9-14 JFNR20142914 article Hyun-Sug Choi 1 Seok-Kyu Jung gentleman71@msn.com 1 Department of Floriculture, St. Thomas Hall Building (D9), Catholic University of Daegu, Gyeongsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do 712-702, Republic of Korea The effect of 1-methycyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment at 0, 2, and 4 d after harvest (0 DAH, 2 DAH, and 4 DAH) of apples [Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill var. domestica (Borkh.) Mansf.] was evaluated on several fruit quality parameters for 180-d at 0.5°C in the air, followed by 28-d at room temperature. The 1,000 nl l-1 1-MCP treatments were adequate to maintain fruit titratable acidity (TA) and firmness, inhibiting the rates of ethylene production and respiration during the storage of both cold and the room temperatures, regardless of the 1-MCP treatment time. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jfnr/2/9/14/jfnr-2-9-14.pdf apple CO2 ethylene fruit quality 1-MCP