Claim · model-written summary
Peel K/Ca ratio at harvest best correlated with later external and internal bitter pits.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Organ / stage
- peel at harveste0
- Outcome
- external and internal bitter-pits during storagee0
- Qualifier
- K/Ca ratioe0
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Verbatim
e0“K/Ca ratio, on the peel at harvest, turned out to be the best parameter to correlate with external and internal bitter-pits during storage”
t0“Apple”
Title
M. Guerra; P.A. Casquero Food Science and Technology International 2010. doi:10.1177/1082013210366977
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced external bitter pit by 10.0% after 180 days of storage.
- Intervention effect Calcium treatment reduced external bitter pit by 16.7% after 180 days of storage.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning reduced internal bitter pit.
- Intervention effect Calcium treatment reduced internal bitter pit.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning affected fruit color, firmness, and total soluble solids during storage.
- Intervention effect Summer pruning affected fruit titratable acidity during storage.
- Intervention effect Calcium treatment affected fruit firmness and titratable acidity.
- Intervention effect Fruit from pruned trees had significantly lower K and Mg than fruit from unpruned trees.
- Intervention effect Calcium treatment increased fruit Ca content.
- Recommendation The authors recommend summer pruning with postharvest calcium to prevent storage losses from bitter pit in commercial orchards.
- Recommendation The authors recommend summer pruning as an ecological alternative for reducing storage bitter pit in organic orchards.
- Recommendation The authors propose peel K/Ca ratio at harvest for predicting bitter pit in long-term storage.