“…Melatonin (MLT), namely N‐acetyl‐5‐methoxytryptamine, was proved to be effective to keep the postharvest quality and health properties of fresh fruit. The documents about its application on postharvest fruit concerning the shelf‐life extension and quality maintenance increased rapidly in the past decades (Yun et al., 2021 ). The delaying of postharvest MLT treatment on the senescence was reported on many fruits such as apple (Onik et al., 2020 ), citrus (Lin et al., 2019 ), grape (Wang et al., 2020 ), kiwifruit (Hu et al., 2018 ), mango (Rastegar et al., 2020 ), peach (Gao et al., 2016 ), pear (Liu et al., 2019 ), strawberry (Liu et al., 2018 ), sweet cherry (Xia et al., 2020 ), tomato (Li et al., 2019 ), and litchi fruit (Zhang et al., 2018 ).…”