Claim · model-written summary
Calcium foliar treatments did not modify olive fruit morphology or cuticle thickness.
- Taxon
- olive
Olea europaeat0 - Treatment
- CaCl 2 foliar treatmentse0
- Outcome
- fruit morphology or cuticle thicknesse2
- Direction
- without modifyinge2
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Verbatim
t0“Calcium applications throughout fruit development enhance olive quality”
e0“two concentrations of CaCl 2 foliar treatments (0.5% and 1.0%), applied at different stages of fruit development”
e2“They also improved the mechanical properties without modifying fruit morphology or cuticle thickness”
Title
Ana Morales‐Sillero; Enrico María Lodolini; María Paz Suárez; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2020. doi:10.1002/jsfa.10810
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Calcium foliar treatments increased fruit calcium content in olive.
- Intervention effect Calcium foliar treatments decreased sodium and potassium in olive fruit.
- Intervention effect Calcium foliar treatments improved the mechanical properties of olive fruit.
- Intervention effect Calcium foliar treatments did not cause phytotoxicity in olive.
- Intervention effect Foliar calcium treatments increased oil content in the olive pulp (dry weight basis).
- Intervention effect Foliar calcium treatments increased the amount of hydroxytyrosol, tyrosol, and oleuropein in olive.