Claim · model-written summary
Preharvest CaCl2 sprays improved firmness retention of sweet bell peppers in storage.
- Taxon
- sweet bell pepperse0
- Treatment
- Preharvest sprays of CaCl 2e1
- Outcome
- firmness retention in storagee1
- Direction
- improvede1
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Verbatim
e0“The effect of preharvest calcium sprays on postharvest quality of sweet bell peppers grown in plasticulture was studied”
e1“Preharvest sprays of CaCl 2 increased the weight of fruit for Oriole, improved firmness retention in storage, decreased decay, increased pericarp wall thickness and the insoluble pectic fractions of both cultivars but had no effect on water loss in storage”
Title
Peter M.A. Toivonen; P.A. Bowen Canadian Journal of Plant Science 1999. doi:10.4141/p98-092
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Preharvest CaCl2 sprays increased fruit weight of Oriole peppers.
- Intervention effect Preharvest CaCl2 sprays decreased decay of sweet bell peppers.
- Intervention effect Preharvest CaCl2 sprays increased pericarp wall thickness and insoluble pectic fractions of both cultivars.
- Intervention effect Preharvest CaCl2 sprays had no effect on water loss of sweet bell peppers in storage.
- Mechanism Calcium improves firmness retention of sweet bell peppers by enhancing the pectic composition of cell walls, according to the authors.