The effects of modified atmosphere packaging, waxing, storage temperature (SC) and duration (3, 7, 11, 15, 19 and 23 days) on the keeping quality and chilling-tolerance of golden apple fruits were evaluated. The extreme susceptibility of golden apple fruits to chilling injury (CI) at 5C was evidenced by extensive pitting and fungal decay. Symptoms appeared after 11 days storage at 5C or after holding at 30C for 1 day after storage for 3 days at 5C. Waxing delayed the appearance of pitting in the above situations to 23 days and 15 days, respectively. Skin pitting developed in low density polyethylene (LDPE) packaged fruits after 19 days at SC and became more pronounced after holding at 30C for one day.Despite the symptoms observed, measurements of bioelectrical resistance and electrolyte leakage indicated that severe membrane damage had occurred by 7 days storage at 5C for all treatments. Therefore, bioelectrieal resistance and electrolyte leakage provided a measure of the onset of chilling injury prior to the appearance of CI symptoms. Changes in fresh weight losses, a reliable indicator of CI in some commodities, did not prove to be so in this case.