“…These disorders can be reduced, and fruit quality maintained for longer times, by delayed storage, i.e., holding fruit in air at room temperature for 1 or more days before placing them in cold storage (6,7,10,11), by storing the fruit in a controlled atmosphere (CA) rather than in air (1,5,9,12,13,14,15), or by inter mittently warming the fruit during low-temperature storage in air (2,4,16). An even more effective method of reducing breakdown is to combine CA storage with intermittent warming.…”