Claim · model-written summary
Heat treatment significantly delayed broccoli senescence, manifested by chlorophyll retention.
- Taxon
- broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicae0 - Treatment
- heat treatmente1
- Outcome
- senescencee1
- Direction
- delayede1
- Qualifier
- manifested by chlorophyll retentione2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“senescence was significantly delayed by heat treatment”
e2“manifested by chlorophyll retention”
e0“in organic and conventionally grown broccoli”
Title
Pedro Javier Zapata; Gregory A Tucker; Daniel Valero; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2012. doi:10.1002/jsfa.5865
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Association Floral head yellowing was higher in conventional than in organic broccoli.
- Association At harvest, organic acids including ascorbic acid were higher in organic than in conventional broccoli.
- Observation Organic acids including ascorbic acid decreased during storage in all broccoli.
- Observation Phenolic concentration and antioxidant activity decreased during storage.
- Association The storage decreases in phenolics and antioxidant activity were higher in conventional than in organic broccoli.
- Intervention effect No differences in phenolics and antioxidant activity were attributable to heat treatment.
- Association Organic broccoli kept higher concentrations of ascorbic acid, phenolics and antioxidant potential during storage than conventional broccoli.
- Association Organic broccoli may have higher potential health-beneficial effects than conventional broccoli.