loss less weight (6.8 and 7.2%, respectively) than control or
1-MCP treated fruit (11.4 and 10.8%, respectively). These results
demonstrated that MP bag significantly reduced the weight loss of
fruit and that 1-MCP did not significantly influence this process. In
a similar way the second experiment (Fig. 1B) showed that, fruit
waxed or treated with wax + NO also lost less weight (4.8 and 5.7%,
respectively) than control or NO treated fruit (13.3 and 14.1%,
respectively) indicating also that the wax TFC 210 reduced
significantly the weight loss and that the NO did not affect this
process. Lower weight loss observed in waxed fruit compared with
fruit packed in MP bag could be due to higher water vapor barrier
of the wax compared to the water transmission from the fruit to the
humid environment created by MP bag.