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The maintenance of fruits and vegetables at low temperature have been proved to be effective in keeping their quality, but it depends on the degree of chilling sensitivity of harvested products which varies due to species, cultivars, maturity, plant part and physiological condition. In the present study, physiological responses of horticultural products to low temperature and the associated metabolic changes were discussed in relation to their shelf life and chilling injury, indicating some phenomena of metabolic changes and dysfunction induced by low temperature such as changes in phenolics metabolism and the resultant discoloration in water convolvulus (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.) and egg plant fruit, alternation of respiratory chain and mitochodrial function in cucumber fruit and potatoes, and the complexity of responses to low temperature and the induced metabolic events in potatoes.
