Claim · model-written summary
Ethrel preharvest spray or postharvest dipping significantly hastened tomato ripening.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Organ / stage
- fruitse0
- Treatment
- ethrele0
- Outcome
- ripeninge0
- Direction
- hastenede0
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Verbatim
e0“ripening of tomato fruits can be hastened significantly with ethreleither by preharvest spray onto the plants or by dipping the fruits after harvest.”
Title
EFFECTS OF ETHREL ON THE RIPENING OF TOMATO AND WATERMELON
Shu-Hsien Lee; Chiang Yao-tiao; Poh Peng-thong Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 1974
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Temperatures above 25℃ accelerated tomato fruit colour development.
- Intervention effect Dipping solution temperatures of 20℃ and 30℃ showed no consistent difference in tomato ripening.
- Intervention effect Preharvest ethrel spray accelerated tomato fruit ripening by 6-8 days.
- Intervention effect Ethrel increased early yield of red mature tomato fruits over untreated plants.
- Intervention effect Ethrel treatment did not increase total tomato yield.
- Mechanism The early tomato yield increase came mainly from more fruits per unit area, rather than mean fruit weight.
- Observation Total soluble solids did not appreciably change during tomato ripening.
- Observation Titratable acidity decreased rapidly during tomato ripening.
- Intervention effect Field spraying with ethrel hastened watermelon maturation and advanced harvest by 5-7 days.
- Intervention effect Ethrel-treated watermelon fruit had higher soluble solids throughout than untreated fruit of the same calendar age.