1997 年 35 巻 2 号 p. 135-138
Postharvest chervil, a kind of culinary herb, stored at 8.0°C under low light irradiation (LLI: 1μmol m-2 s-1 PPFD) with nutrient gel application (NGA) to the cut ends of the stems showed similar changes in chromaticity (L*, a*, b* and ΔE*ab) values for 21 days of the storage period to that stored at 6.8°C under darkness with NGA. Low light was provided with an array of red light emitting diodes (red LEDs) . Postharvest chervil stored without NGA showed markedly greater values in L*, a* and ΔE* ab after day 9 of the storage than that stored with NGA at 8.0°C under LLI. LLI using red LEDs with NGA proved highly effective for preserving the visual quality of postharvest chervil during low temperature storage.