Analysis of Tomato Post-Harvest Properties: Fruit Color, Shelf Life, and Fungal Susceptibility.

A wide variety of fresh market and processing tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) is grown and consumed worldwide. Post-harvest losses are a major contributing factor to losses in crop productivity and can account for up to 50% of the harvest. To select and breed elite tomato varieties, it is important to characterize fruit quality and evaluate the post-harvest properties of tomato fruits.