Abstract:The real-time ethylene cumulative during the controlled atmosphere (CA) storage and ethylene production rate, fruit firmness, peel chlorophyll content, soluble solids content, titratable acidity, decay, and scald of dynamic O2 (0.90-1.25%) and CO2 (0.06-0.17%) treated ‘Bartlett’ pears were investigated from the different orchards after two packing times (December 3, 2019 and January 21, 2020) plus 1 and 5 d of storage at 20 °C Compared to the commercial CA treatment (O2=2.25% and CO2<0.10%), the optimum packing time was predicted by analyzing the relationship between the real-time ethylene cumulative and scald incidence. Compared to the pears from 6 orchards in the commercial CA room (CA 23), the ethylene cumulative of pears from 6 orchards in the dynamic CA room (CA 24) decreased by 42.12% during storage. After 1 and 5 d of storage at 20 °C, the dynamic CA treatment significantly reduced the degradation of peel chlorophyll (p=0.00 and p=0.00). Furthermore, the scald incidence was significantly decreased after 5 d of storage at 20 °C (p=0.00). However, the ethylene production rate, fruit firmness, softening, soluble solids content, and titratable acid were not affected by dynamic CA treatment. At the second packing time, the average scald incidence in CA 23 was 30.00% (the commercially unacceptable rate=30.00%), while the average scald incidence in CA 24 was 17.04%. According to the linear equation between the real-time ethylene cumulative and scald incidence, the average scald incidence in CA 24 will be 30.00% on March 7, 2020. Compared to the commercial CA treatment, dynamic CA treatment extends the additional storage life by 1 month by providing high commercial value.