Peppers are subject to chilling injury when stored below
7 8C and to accelerated ripening and bacterial soft rot when
stored above 13 8C. Storage at 5 8C reduces water loss and
ripening, but after 2 weeks chilling injury will appear and is
associated with severe pitting, weight loss, calyx darkening
and decay development Some pepper cultivars can
be sensitive to chilling if stored at 7 8C (45 8F), so a good storage
temperature range should be 7–13 8C (Gonzalez-Aguilar, 2004).