Application of
1mL L1 ethylene in storage resulted in the average firmness
reaching 10 N after just 4 weeks. By the end of 14 weeks storage
kiwifruit at 1mL L1 ethylene has a firmness of 3.4 N while fruit of
other treatments of 0.1, 0.01mL L1 and 0.001mL L1 ethylene were
at 5.9, 9.1 N and 12.2 N respectively.