Claim · model-written summary
The rinse and packaging eliminated injury after the lower calcium dose.
- Taxon
- Apples
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- A water rinse in combination with a wax- or shellac-based coating or shrink wrap packaginge1
- Outcome
- ite0
- Direction
- eliminatede0
- Qualifier
- 20 g·L –1 solution of CaCl 2e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“eliminated it in fruit treated with a 20 g·L –1 solution of CaCl 2”
e1“A water rinse in combination with a wax- or shellac-based coating or shrink wrap packaging”
t0“Apples”
Title
Robert A. Saftner; William S. Conway; Carl E. Sams HortScience 1997. doi:10.21273/hortsci.32.3.458b
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect Calcium chloride treatments delayed senescent breakdown.
- Intervention effect Calcium chloride treatments caused superficial fruit injury.
- Intervention effect A water rinse with coating or shrink wrap reduced injury after the higher calcium doses.
- Intervention effect Coating and film treatments maintained calcium benefits while lowering storage weight loss.