Also the duration of the ripening transitions: green to yellow,yellow to orange, and orange to red were determined on the vine,off the vine, and off the vine after postharvest chilling (Fig. 5). Greento yellow was slowed down by postharvest chilling while it was notpractically affected by harvesting. Yellow to orange and orange tored transitions were shortened when the fruit ripened off the vinewith previous chilling or not. The ripening process was shorteneddown from 13 ± 2 days to 10 ± 3 days when the fruit ripened off thevine immediately after it was harvest of after 4◦C storage during amonth