Claim · model-written summary
6% CaCl2 at -20 kPa best maintained tomato postharvest quality compared with untreated fruit at 28°C.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- 6% CaCl2 treatment at -20 kPae0
- Outcome
- postharvest qualitye0
- Direction
- beste0
- Qualifier
- 28°Ce0
- Comparator
- untreated fruitse0
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Verbatim
e0“6% CaCl2 treatment at -20 kPa was the best in terms of extension of shelf life (by 92%) and in keeping the postharvest quality of tomatoes compared to the untreated fruits kept at 28°C.”
Title
PAWANK Senevirathna; WAM Daundasekera Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences) 2010. doi:10.4038/cjsbs.v39i1.2351
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Vacuum infiltration was the most effective application method for extending tomato shelf life.
- Intervention effect 6% CaCl2 at -20 kPa extended tomato shelf life by 92% compared with untreated fruit at 28°C.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 application significantly increased tomato fruit firmness.
- Intervention effect Increasing CaCl2 concentration delayed tomato fruit colour development.
- Intervention effect Increasing CaCl2 concentration lowered tomato ethylene production rates.
- Intervention effect Increasing CaCl2 concentration delayed the tomato ethylene climacteric.
- Intervention effect CaCl2 treatment had no considerable effect on tomato fruit pH, TSS or titratable acidity.
- Intervention effect Calcium application significantly increased total calcium in inner and outer tomato pericarp.
- Observation The stem end scar was the main pathway for CaCl2 infiltration into tomato fruits.