injury symptoms (Fig. 1d and i). However, a clear difference wasobserved between the two varieties after being returned to growthtemperature. Tomato cv. “Minitomato” fruit, within four days, haddeveloped clearly visible symptoms of chilling injury, only 10% ofthe fruits turned red and 75% deteriorated or rotted (Table 1 andFig. 1j). On the other hand, tomato cv. “Micro-Tom” fruit did notdecay and developed color. Within these fruits, 88% reached thered stage while the rest did not reach full red color (Table 1 andFig. 1e). Overall, these results showed that tomato cv. “Micro-Tom”fruit is clearly tolerant to chilling while tomato cv. “Minitomato”fruit is highly susceptible and developed chilling injury symptoms.