Claim · model-written summary
LED-grown fruits retained about 18% greater firmness at the end of cold storage.
- Taxon
- melon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- LED-growne0
- Outcome
- firmnesse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- approximately 18%e0
- Qualifier
- at the end of storagee0
- Comparator
- control fruitse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“LED-grown fruits maintained approximately 18% higher firmness at the end of storage than control fruits”
t0“melon”
Title
Onofrio Davide Palmitessa; Marica Troilo; Carlo Porfido; et al. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 2026. doi:10.1002/jsfa.70792
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation PCA separated cucumber and Scopatizzo samples.
- Intervention effect LED supplementation increased fruit number per plant by about 29%, from 11 to 14.
- Intervention effect LED supplementation did not affect fruit mineral composition at harvest.
- Association Moisture, pH and acidity varied mainly with storage time and were unaffected by light regime.
- Intervention effect LED-grown fruit had up to 12% higher chlorophyll at harvest.
- Intervention effect LED-grown fruit had 28% higher glucose at harvest.
- Observation Total phenolics increased 80% during storage in both treatments.
- Observation Carotenoids increased 22% during storage in both treatments.