Table 5.

Effect of 1-MCP and GA₃ treatments on the p-qumaric acid, ferulic, phloridzin, and quercetin acid contents during shelf-life of strawberry fruits (mg 100 g⁻¹).

	Treatments	Shelf-Life (Days)
		3	5
p-qumaric	Control	7.57 ± 0.31 b *	5.10± 0.04 c
	1-MCP	8.62 ± 0.03 a	6.28 ± 0.05 a
	GA3 (50)	6.51 ± 0.50 d	4.01 ± 1.00 d
	1-MCP + GA3 (50)	7.05 ± 0.00 c	5.84 ± 0.01 b
	GA3 (100)	5.75 ± 0.04 f	3.36 ± 0.03 e
	1-MCP + GA3 (100)	6.07 ± 0.00 e	4.30 ± 0.05 d
Ferulic acid	Control	1.43 ± 0.05 ab	1.37 ± 0.09 a
	1-MCP	1.58 ± 0.05 a	1.41 ± 0.03 a
	GA3 (50)	1.51 ± 0.05 a	1.53 ± 0.50 a
	1-MCP + GA3 (50)	1.36 ± 0.01 bc	1.35 ± 0.03 a
	GA3 (100)	1.17 ± 0.06 c	1.46 ± 0.10 a
	1-MCP + GA3 (100)	1.20 ± 0.00 c	0.95 ± 0.04 b
Phloridzin	Control	0.66 ± 0.44 bc	0.54 ± 0.04 c
	1-MCP	0.97 ± 0.04 a	0.67 ± 0.03 a
	GA3 (50)	0.60 ± 0.09 c	0.58 ± 0.14 c
	1-MCP + GA3 (50)	0.77 ± 0.01 b	0.56 ± 0.00 c
	GA3 (100)	0.41 ± 0.02 d	0.37 ± 0.05 d
	1-MCP + GA3 (100)	0.76 ± 0.00 b	0.63 ± 0.00 b
Quercetin	Control	1.07 ± 0.05 d	0.76 ± 0.01 c
	1-MCP	1.41 ± 0.00 a	1.34 ± 0.00 a
	GA3 (50)	1.27 ± 0.05 bc	0.95 ± 0.01 b
	1-MCP + GA3 (50)	1.15 ± 0.04 c	0.97 ± 0.02 b
	GA3 (100)	0.94 ± 0.03 de	0.89 ± 0.03 b
	1-MCP + GA3 (100)	0.96 ± 0.00 de	0.92 ± 0.00 b

*: Values are mean value±standard deviation. n = 3 for the phenolic compounds. The difference among the means indicated with the same lowercase letter in columns was not significant (p ≤ 0.05).