Within the same time, RPIKS of fruit picked after 103–115 DAFB (N3B/C, N4, N5) fell to levels of 3.4–5.5. Most of the latter fruit lots, which were more mature at harvest (Fig. 1A),displayed the cultivar-specific postharvest ripening characteristics described by Mahayothee et al. (2007a) regarding TSS and the TSS/TA ratios, apart from the slower process at 14 ◦C: TSS rapidly rose within 10±1 d up to the same constant level of∼18 g hg−1(Table 4), indicating the plateau previously reached after 2 (33 ◦C)and 3 d (24 ◦C) of postharvest ripening (Mahayothee et al., 2007a).