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POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages 88-98Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2017.01.005
Keywords
Nitric oxide; Hami melon; Chilling injury; Antioxidant enzymes; CmCBF1; CmCBF3
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Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Province, China [2014211B026]
- National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2011BAD27B01, 2015BAD19B0104]
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Short-term exposure to a low concentration of nitric oxide (NO) treatment can prevent or alleviate chilling injury (CI), and extend the postharvest life of various fresh fruits and vegetables. However no research on this topic has been reported for Hami melon fruit. In this study, Hami melon fruit were pretreated with 60 mu L/L NO for 3h at 25 C-circle, and then stored at 1 +/- 0.5 C-circle with a relative humidity (RH) of 75-80% for 49 d. The results showed that NO treatment effectively decreased the CI index and CI incidence, reduced the increases in membrane permeability and malondialdehyde (MDA) content, inhibited superoxide anion (O-2 (center dot)) production rates, reduced H2O2 content, and sustained higher activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), catalase (CAT) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) in the rind of Hami melon fruit during storage at 1 +/- 0.5 C-circle. C-repeat/dehydration responsive element (CRT/DRE)binding factors (CBFs) are the best-characterized transcription factors controlling cold-responsive gene expression and cold acclimation. To investigate the molecular regulation of cold resistance by NO treatment in Hami melon fruit, a 639-bp CmCBF1 gene and a 615-bp CmCBF3 gene were identified, and the effect NO on the expression of CmCBF1 and CmCBF3 was measured by RT-qPCR. The results showed that the expression of CmCBF1 and CmCBF3 were induced, the expression of the CmCBF1 and CmCBF3 in NO treated fruit was significantly higher than in control fruit during storage at 1 +/- 0.5 C-circle. These results indicate that NO treatment can alleviate and delay CI in cold-stored Hami melon fruit via enhancing the activities of antioxidant enzymes and up-regulating the expression of CmCBF1 and CmCBF3. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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