Strawberries are a high value fruit
but marketing is limited by a short postharvest
life. The postharvest life can, however, be extended
by minimising the concentration of
ethylene in the atmosphere around fruit (El-Kazzaz
et al., 1983; Wills and Kim, 1995). In this
paper we report on the ability of exogenous application
of NO at a range of concentrations and
application times to extend the postharvest life of
strawberries.