For nectarines, another stonefruit with a climacteric
ripening pattern, ethylene production and respiration rate were
substantially curtailed in A. vera gel-coated fruit compared to the
control fruit during ripening at ambient temperature in ‘Artic Snow’
(Ahmed et al., 2009) and ‘Flavela’ and ‘Flanoba’ (Navarro et al., 2011)
cultivars.