Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend spraying ethephon at the bisir stage to increase ripening and rutab dates and allow early harvest.
- Taxon
- Phoenix dactylifera L.
Phoenix dactyliferat0 - Treatment
- spray by ethephon on bisir stagee5
- Outcome
- increasing the proportion of ripening and rutab date moreover early harveste5
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Verbatim
t0“Phoenix dactylifera L.”
e5“spray by ethephon on bisir stage of Helali date fruit for increasing the proportion of ripening and rutab date moreover early harvest”
Title
Adel M. Al-Saif; Abdullah Alebidi; Rashid S. Al-Obeed; et al. Progress in nutrition 2017. doi:10.23751/pn.v19i1.4741
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Association Ethephon concentration was positively related to fruit physical and chemical properties.
- Association Higher ethephon concentration correlated with a higher proportion of rutab dates.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased fruit dimension.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased flesh weight.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased fruit weight.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased fruit volume.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased total acidity percentage.
- Intervention effect Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased moisture content.
- Intervention effect Ethephon increased total soluble solids at the rutab stage relative to the control at harvest.
- Intervention effect Ethephon increased reducing at the rutab stage relative to the control at harvest.
- Intervention effect Ethephon increased total sugars percentage at the rutab stage relative to the control at harvest.