The only reported postharvest studies with
arginine are by Zhang et al. (2010, 2013),) who dipped tomatoes in
a 0.2 mM solution of arginine at a sub-atmospheric pressure
(35 kPa) and found a 20% reduction in the incidence of chilling
injury after 2–4 weeks storage at 2 C. Treatment with arginine
generated an enhanced level of NO in tomato tissue in the first few
days of storage but enhanced NOS activity throughout storage.