FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2008, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (2): 419-424.

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Effects of Three-stage Hypobaric Storage on Green Asparagus Physiologic Changes

 LI  Wen-Xiang, CHOU  Hong-Wei, SUN  苹, ZHANG  Min   

  1. 1.School of Food, Laiyang Agricultural College, Qingdao 266109, China;2.Key Laboratory of Food Science and Safety, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
  • Online:2008-02-15 Published:2011-08-24

Abstract: The effects of three-stage hypobaric storages (10~20 kPa for 3 d, 20~30 kPa for 1 week and 30~50 kPa for 3rd stage) on various physiologic indexes of green asparagus, such as respiratory intensity, ethylene emission, weight loss rate, defense enzyme activity, free radical content, malondialdehyde (MDA) content and cell membrance permeability, were studied as compared with the atmosphere cold storage. The results showed that three-stage hypobaric storage conditions significantly inhibited the respiratory intensity and ethylene emission, decrease the accumulation of free radicals and MDA, increase the activities of defense enzyme, inhibit the increase of cell membrance permeability and controll the weight loss rate. It was concluded that the three-stage hypobaric storages can obviously inhibit asparagus senescence with the result storage life of 50 days as compared with the storage life of only 25 days in atmospheric refrigeration conditions.

Key words: green asparagus, three-stage hypobaric storage, atmosphere cold storage, defense enzyme, free radical