Claim · model-written summary
No irrigation reduced peach fruit size versus full irrigation.
- Taxon
- Peach
Prunus persicat0 - Material
- Ryan's Sunt0
- Treatment
- NIe0
- Outcome
- fruit sizee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- FIe0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“NI reduced fruit size, delayed fruit maturity, and increased fruit dry matter concentration (DMC) compared with FI.”
t0“Instrumental and Sensory Evaluation of Fruit Quality for ‘Ryan's Sun’ Peach Grown under Deficit Irrigation”
Title
Gerardo Lopez; M. Hossein Behboudian; Gemma Echeverria; et al. HortTechnology 2011. doi:10.21273/horttech.21.6.712
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect No irrigation delayed fruit maturity versus full irrigation.
- Intervention effect No irrigation increased fruit dry matter concentration.
- Intervention effect No irrigation increased soluble solids concentration and titratable acidity.
- Intervention effect No irrigation increased perceived firmness, crispness and sourness.
- Intervention effect No irrigation reduced perceived sweetness, juiciness and peach flavor intensity.
- Intervention effect Consumers preferred no-irrigation fruit less.
- Intervention effect Consumer preference for NI/FI and FI fruit was similar.
- Intervention effect Consumer preference was reduced for FI/NI fruit.
- Association Instrumental measures and sensory attributes lacked significant correlations.
- Observation Authors concluded no irrigation before harvest impaired organoleptic quality.
- Recommendation Authors advise applying scarce water just before harvest.