Most, if not all, horticultural fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals of tropical origin are subject to physiological injury when subjected to temperatures below about 12.5°C but above their freezing temperature. This damage does not involve freezing and is commonly termed chilling injury . Chilling-sensitive plants, and plant parts, are subject to injury at all stages of their development, except in the dry-seed stage.
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Leonard L. Morris (1982) studied this question.