Abstract
Peach fruit are prone to development of chilling injury during cold storage at around 0–7 °C. Nitric oxide (NO) has been proven to alleviate chilling injury, but the mechanism was still unclear. In this study, peach fruit were immersed in a NO donor (sodium nitroprusside, SNP) solution for 10 min, then stored at 0 °C. The SNP alleviated chilling injury, including decreasing the internal browning index, malondialdehyde content, electrolyte leakage, and lipoxygenase activity, and maintaining firmness. Furthermore, SNP maintenance of fruit firmness was associated with reduction of xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolase family member gene expression and decrease of cell wall hydrolase activity, especially the activities of polygalacturonase, xyloglucan endoglycosyl transferase, cellulase, and β-galactosidase. Meanwhile, SNP regulated the lipid metabolism by up-regulating the expression of genes encoding glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, ketoacy-ACP synthase, phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate and long-chain acyl-CoA. Thus, the results of this study indicate that SNP alleviates chilling injury of post-harvest peach fruit by regulating cell wall and lipid metabolism.
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