Editing Pear (section)

=== Harvest ===
Summer and autumn [[cultivar]]s of ''Pyrus communis'', being [[climacteric fruits]], are gathered before they are fully ripe, while they are still green, but snap off when lifted.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Marini |first=Richard P. |date=2009 |title=Growing Pears in Virginia |url=https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3ea7030c-0c21-49ed-80aa-9fa4bbbc3c7f/content |journal=Virginia Cooperative Extension |volume=Publication 422-017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608184455/https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/3ea7030c-0c21-49ed-80aa-9fa4bbbc3c7f/content |archive-date=2024-06-08}}</ref> Certain other pears, including ''Pyrus pyrifolia'' and ''P. × bretschneideri'', have both climacteric and non-climacteric varieties.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Itai |first1=Akihiro |last2=Fujita |first2=Naoko |date=February 2008 |title=Identification of Climacteric and Nonclimacteric Phenotypes of Asian Pear Cultivars by CAPS Analysis of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Synthase Genes |url=https://journals.ashs.org/view/journals/hortsci/43/1/article-p119.xml |journal=HortScience |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=119–121 |doi=10.21273/HORTSCI.43.1.119 |issn=0018-5345|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The pear genome |date=2019 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-11047-5 |editor-last=Korban |editor-first=Schuyler S. |series=Compendium of plant genomes |location=Cham}}</ref>