Claim · model-written summary
Preharvest foliar calcium with MCAS maintained significantly firmer tomato fruit than untreated fruit for up to ten weeks after harvest.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- calcium with MCASe0
- Outcome
- fruite0
- Direction
- firmere0
- Qualifier
- up to 10 weeks after harveste0
- Comparator
- untreatede0
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Verbatim
e0“When calcium with MCAS was applied to tomato plants foliarly before harvest, the calcium with MCAS-treated fruit were significantly firmer than the untreated or calcium without MCAS-treated fruit for up to 10 weeks after harvest”
Title
Tomato Firmness and Shelf-Life Increased by Application of Stimulated Calcium
Jolyon Dodgson; Anna Weston; David Marks Crops 2023. doi:10.3390/crops3040023
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Calcium with MCAS increased laboratory tomato fruit firmness over untreated fruit.
- Intervention effect Calcium with MCAS increased laboratory tomato fruit firmness over calcium alone.
- Intervention effect Untreated and calcium-alone laboratory fruit did not differ significantly in firmness.
- Intervention effect Preharvest foliar calcium with MCAS maintained significantly firmer tomato fruit than calcium alone for up to ten weeks.
- Observation The foliar response was achieved with 0.91 kg ha−1 calcium.
- Intervention effect After simulated dropping, calcium with MCAS fruit remained firmer than undamaged fruit.
- Intervention effect After simulated dropping, calcium with MCAS fruit remained firmer than dropped fruit given calcium alone.