Claim · model-written summary
Macis and Argentario rootstocks may lead to over-ripening and softening of CR and/or CT fruit during storage.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Material
- CR and/or CTe2
- Treatment
- Macis and Argentarioe2
- Outcome
- over-ripening, softeninge2
- Direction
- may leade2
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Verbatim
t0“Watermelon Cultivars”
e2“Macis and Argentario may lead an over-ripening, softening and less intense flesh color with lower lycopene content for CR and/or CT fruit during storage”
Title
Ahmet Erhan Özdemir; Elif Çandır Tarım Bilimleri Dergisi 2018. doi:10.15832/ankutbd.345469
Other claims from this paper (13)
- Intervention effect Grafted CT fruit had thicker rind than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect Grafted CT fruit had a lower ripening score than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect Grafted CT fruit had higher flesh firmness than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect Grafted CT fruit had higher lycopene content than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect Grafted CT fruit had a more intense red color during storage than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect Grafted CR fruit had thicker rind than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect Grafted CR fruit had higher flesh firmness than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect CR fruit grafted on Ferro and RS841 rootstocks only had higher lycopene content and C* values than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect CR fruit grafted on Ferro and RS841 rootstocks only had lower ripening scores than non-grafted fruit.
- Intervention effect Macis and Argentario rootstocks may lead to lower lycopene content in CR and/or CT fruit during storage.
- Intervention effect Macis and Argentario rootstocks may lead to less intense flesh color in CR and/or CT fruit during storage.
- Intervention effect Watermelons grafted on Ferro and RS841 rootstocks retained better postharvest quality than non-grafted fruit for both cultivars.
- Observation Watermelons could be kept for 21 days at 7 °C with successful storage.