Nitric oxide maintains postharvest quality of navel orange fruit by reducing postharvest rotting during cold storage and enhancing antioxidant activity

Current study aimed to evaluate the effects of fumigation with 15 μl L−1 nitric oxide (NO) on the quality of ‘Newhall’ navel orange fruit during storage at 5 °C. Fruits quality parameters, decay rate, antioxidant capacity, antioxidant enzymes activities and disease resistance related enzymes activities were evaluated. NO treatment significantly inhibited the increasing weight loss, maintained soluble solid content (SSC), titratable acid (TA) and vitamin C (VC) contents (P