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FROST DAMAGE: PHYSIOLOGY AND CRITICAL TEMPERATURES<br />

COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME TEMPERATURE (°C)<br />

Pineapple<br />

Plantain<br />

Plums and Prunes<br />

Pomegranate<br />

Potato, early crop<br />

late crop<br />

Pumpkin<br />

Quince<br />

Radish<br />

Rhubarb<br />

Rutabaga<br />

Salsify, vegetable oyster<br />

Sapotes<br />

Caimito, star apple<br />

Canistel, eggfruit<br />

Black sapote<br />

White sapote<br />

Shallot<br />

Spinach<br />

Squash<br />

Summer (soft rind); courgette<br />

Winter (hard rind); calabash<br />

Star-apple<br />

Starfruit<br />

Strawberry<br />

Sweet potato, yam [in USA]<br />

Tamarind<br />

Taro, cocoyam,<br />

Tomato<br />

mature green<br />

firm ripe<br />

Turnip root<br />

Watercress;<br />

Watermelon<br />

Witloof chicory (endive)<br />

Yam<br />

Ananas comosus<br />

Musa paradisiaca var. paradisiaca<br />

Prunus domestica<br />

Punica granatum<br />

Solanum tuberosum<br />

Cucurbita maxima<br />

Cydonia oblonga<br />

Raphanus sativus<br />

Rheum rhaponticum<br />

Brassica napus var. napobrassica<br />

Trapopogon porrifolius<br />

Chrysophyllum cainito<br />

Pouteria campechiana<br />

Diospyros ebenaster<br />

Casimiroa edulis<br />

Allium cepa var. ascalonicum<br />

Spinacia oleracea<br />

Cucurbita pepo<br />

Cucurbita moschata; C. maxima<br />

see Sapotes<br />

see Carambola<br />

see Berries<br />

Ipomoea batatas<br />

Tamarindus indica<br />

Colocasia esculenta<br />

Lycopersicon esculentum<br />

Brassica campestris var. rapifera<br />

Lepidium sativum<br />

Citrullus vulgaris<br />

Dioscorea spp.<br />

-1.1<br />

-0.8<br />

-0.8<br />

-3.0<br />

-0.8<br />

-0.8<br />

-0.8<br />

-2.0<br />

-0.7<br />

-0.9<br />

-1.1<br />

-1.1<br />

-1.2<br />

-1.8<br />

-2.3<br />

-2.0<br />

-0.7<br />

-0.3<br />

-0.5<br />

-0.8<br />

-1.3<br />

-3.7<br />

-0.9<br />

-0.5<br />

-0.5<br />

-1.0<br />

-0.3<br />

-0.4<br />

-0.1<br />

-1.1<br />

SOURCE: From Whiteman, 1957, as reported in the University of California, Davis, Postharvest web page:<br />

http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Produce/Storage/prop_a.shtml.<br />

NOTE: Some taxonomic names may have changed since 1957.<br />

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