2. Materials and methods
2.1. Treatments and storage of fruit
Uniform apples (Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill var. domestica (Borkh.)
Mansf.) without blemishes were harvested from ‘Empire’ apple
trees growing at the Cornell orchards in Ithaca on September 28
(H1) and October 12 (H2), 2011. These harvest dates were at the
end and two weeks after the normal commercial harvest periods,
respectively, for this cultivar in central New York (. On each occasion, fruit were randomly sorted into