Claim · model-written summary
High temperature and long pre-drying significantly reduced rotting.
- Taxon
- Early Onion (Allium cepa L.)
Allium cepat0 - Treatment
- High temperature and long periods of pre-dryinge0
- Outcome
- rottinge0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
t0“Early Onion (Allium cepa L.)”
e0“High temperature and long periods of pre-drying significantly reduced rotting and sprouting.”
Title
Effect of Pre-drying and Chemical Treatments on Storability of an Early Onion (Allium cepa L.)
Chae-Shin Im; Jong‐Min Lim; Seong-Mo Kang; et al. Horticultural Science & Technology 2002
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation After four months, rotting was the same at 5C and room temperature.
- Observation At 13.5C, 54% of onions rotted.
- Observation Sprouting was highest at 13.5C, at 40.7%.
- Observation Sprouting was lowest at room temperature, at 13%.
- Association Large bulbs were more susceptible to rot than small bulbs.
- Intervention effect sulfur treatment reduced bulb rotting by about 13% relative to other chemicals.
- Intervention effect CaCO_3 treatment reduced bulb rotting by about 13% relative to other chemicals.
- Intervention effect High temperature and long pre-drying significantly reduced sprouting.
- Intervention effect Drying at 45C for 48 hours every 15 days over 120 days reduced rotting by more than three times versus controls.
- Intervention effect Drying at 45C for 48 hours every 15 days over 120 days reduced sprouting by more than three times versus controls.