Claim · model-written summary
Melatonin reduced the decay rate by 33.3% in sweet cherry.
- Taxon
- Sweet Cherry
Prunus aviumt0 - Treatment
- melatonin treatmente0
- Outcome
- decay ratee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- 33.3%e0
- Comparator
- distilled watere1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
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Verbatim
t0“Sweet Cherry”
e0“melatonin treatment significantly (P<0.05) inhibited the increase of browning index, reduced the decay rate by 33.3%”
e1“Sweet cherry was treated with distilled water and 100 μmol·L−1 exogenous melatonin”
Title
Effect of Exogenous Melatonin Treatment on Browning and Quality of Sweet Cherry
Feng WANG; Qingzhen YANG; Qifeng ZHAO; et al. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2022. doi:10.13386/j.issn1002-0306.2021060226
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Melatonin inhibited the increase of browning index in sweet cherry.
- Intervention effect Melatonin delayed the decrease of firmness, total soluble solids and titratable acidity.
- Intervention effect Melatonin delayed the decrease of ascorbic acid content.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased superoxide dismutase and catalase activities.
- Intervention effect Melatonin inhibited the increase of lipoxygenase activity.
- Intervention effect Melatonin inhibited the increase of O2−· generation rate.
- Intervention effect Melatonin inhibited the increase of H2O2 and malondialdehyde content.
- Intervention effect Melatonin inhibited the increase of relative membrane permeability.
- Intervention effect Melatonin delayed the increase of peroxidase, polyphenol oxidase and phenylalanine ammonia lyase.
- Intervention effect Melatonin increased polyphenol content in sweet cherry.
- Mechanism Inhibition of fruit browning by melatonin might be associated with improved antioxidant enzyme activities.