Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride extended tomato fruit shelf life 2.3 to 3.8-fold versus untreated fruit.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Calcium chloride treatmente0
- Outcome
- shelf life of fruitse0
- Direction
- extensione0
- Value
- 2.3 to 3.8-folde0
- Comparator
- non-treated onese0
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Verbatim
e0“Calcium chloride treatment resulted in a 2.3 to 3.8-fold extension of shelf life of fruits compared to non-treated ones”
t0“tomato”
Title
W. A. M. Daundasekera; G. L. S. G. Liyanage; R. Y. Wijerathne; et al. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences) 2015. doi:10.4038/cjsbs.v44i1.7341
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Calcium-treated tomato fruits had higher firmness, outer pericarp calcium and TSS.
- Intervention effect Calcium-treated tomato fruits had lower fresh weight at harvest.
- Intervention effect Calcium-treated tomato fruits had greater weight loss during ambient storage.
- Association Calcium treatment had no consistent relationship with tomato fruit titratable acidity.
- Observation Aspergillus niger was identified as a principal postharvest tomato pathogen.
- Observation Rhizopus stolonifer was identified as a principal postharvest tomato pathogen.
- Intervention effect Disease severity was lower in calcium-treated tomato fruit, with effect significance varying by fungal species.
- Intervention effect Wounded tomato fruits had greater disease severity under natural conditions and artificial inoculation, regardless of calcium treatment.
- Mechanism Authors attribute longer calcium-treated tomato shelf life to firmness retention and delayed skin coloration.