Environmental factors play a critical role in determining growth and development of fruits.
The different climatic factors including light, temperature, humidity and atmospheric gases influence the physical and structural characteristics of fruits.
As the interface between plant and environment, the plant cuticle plays a significant number of roles—mainly for protection against dehydration, UV and other abiotic stresses such as wind and rain.
The cuticle is a physical barrier, recent discoveries suggest that cuticle composition rather than thickness determines fruit susceptibility to pathogens and abiotic stress.
Both sunlight and temperature can directly change the morphology and properties of fruit epicuticular wax (bloom) and the cuticle wax itself on fruit.
Enhance cuticular membrane stability
Parka’s composition of food-grade phospholipids supplements the plant’s cuticle forming a protective shield to support the integrity of fruit and foliage—minimizing environmental stress, improving fruit quality and yield at harvest, and extending shelf life.
Parka is the only product in the market that combines physical and biochemical properties to enhance cuticular membrane stability and alleviate external disorders that result from environmental extremes.
Parka—It all goes back to the cuticle
See this article in Tree Fruit Sept 2022
