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> Any ideas?  I can't be the only one using fridges for storage.  And I
> would think that everyone who does has this problem.  Thanks!
> 
> Steve Herje,
> SW WI USA
> On Feb 14, 2014 7:39 PM, "fuwa fuwa usagi"
> <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com> wrote:

Interesting question.  But I am not certain your premise is correct.  I have 
several crates of 
apples in my root cellar.  These have, as you say, shrivelled up and turned 
to mush.  I have a 
number of other cultivars in a sealed fridge.  Many of these have sufferred a 
similar fate, but 
others have retained their firmness and integrity despite being in a closed 
fridge with rapidly 
deteriorating other cultivars.  Clearly there are differences in keeping 
qualities, but you knew 
this already.  It may well be that ethylene is playing a role, but just how 
much is less clear-cut.