AVOCADO MATURITY STUDIES: A DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS OF VARIOUS PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS TO NON- DESTRUCTIVE TESTING

A substantial amount of data has now been collected on the biochemical behavior of maturing avocados in regard to composition and sugar metabolism. Such studies still indicate that improved maturity indices might be developed with biochemical tests but such tests would, of necessity, be destructive of the fruit tested. A procedure whic