Abstract
IT was noticed in the course of studies of the behaviour of apples which had been coated with various oil-water emulsions (see e.g. Hulme, 1949) that some of the fruits exhibited symptoms of physiological diseases typical of fruit stored in low concentrations of 02 and high concentrations of C02 (see Kidd and West, 1927). This suggested that the effect of skin-coatings on the storage behaviour of the fruit was related to their effect on the composition of the atmosphere within the fruit and that to study these effects it was necessary to measure the content of C02 and Oa within the fruit. Considerable variation in behaviour was observed in fruit treated with the
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