Ca storage and hypobaric storage of white peach ‘Okubo’

White peach ‘Okubo’ fruits were stored for 3 weeks at 1°C in cold storage, controlled atmosphere (CA) storage (3% CO₂ + 3% O₂ and 0% CO₂ + 3% O₂) and hypobaric storage ($\text{1}\text{7}\text{and}\text{6}\text{7}\text{atm}\text{.}$) After removal from storage, fruits were ripened at 20°C. In cold-stored fruits, low temperature injuries (flesh browning, mealy breakdown and abnormal peeling) developed. When O₂ was maintained at 3% without CO₂, the ripening rate after storage was faster than that of fruits which had been held at 20°C directly, and low temperature injuries were not controlled. Under the atmospheric conditions of 3% O₂ and 3% CO₂, ripening rate after storage was not different from that of directly ripened fruits, and injuries were almost completely controlled. In the fruits kept in hypobaric storage of $\text{1}\text{7}\text{atm}\text{.}$, the ripening rate after storage was slower than that of fruits stored in air at 1 atm. (cold storage). Mealy breakdown was reduced, but no effect was found on the flesh browning nor on the abnormal peeling. No significant differences were found between hypobaric-stored fruits of $\text{6}\text{7}\text{atm}\text{.}$ and cold-stored ones.