Table 3 Fresh fruit firmness at harvest, firmness after 20 days of room temperature (20℃) storage and softening rate (difference between firmness at harvest and firmness after storage, divided by number of storage days) in the seven apple cultivars

Cultivars	Firmness (Newton/11 mm plunger)		Softening rate
	Harvest time	after storage
	Fuji	68.52±0.391)^a2)		61.03±0.25^ab	0.37^a
RubyS	71.00±0.35^a	68.43±0.38^a	0.13^a
Hongro	71.14±0.72^a	55.98±0.63^b	0.76^ab
Arisoo	74.93±0.33^a	58.30±0.71^ab	0.83^ab
Summer King	70.38±0.24^a	47.46±0.28^b	1.15^b
Greenball	57.07±0.37^b	34.42±0.10^b	1.13^b
Golden Supreme	70.38±0.24^a	44.93±0.17^c	1.27^c

Values are means±SD (n=9).
Means followed by the same letters within the column per parameter are not significantly different (p<0.05).