Claim · model-written summary
Late deficit lowered fruit pH.
- Taxon
- tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- DLe0
- Outcome
- Fruit pHe0
- Direction
- lowere0
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit pH was also more favourable (i.e. lower) in DL.”
t0“tomato”
Title
Processing tomato fruit quality: influence of soil water deficits at flowering and ripening
A. Richard Renquist; Jeff B. Reid Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 2001. doi:10.1071/ar00146
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Late deficit accelerated fruit colour change to 97% red at harvest versus 89–93% in the other regimes.
- Intervention effect Late deficit reduced fruit yield by 38%.
- Intervention effect Late deficit produced 35% smaller fruit.
- Intervention effect Fruit soluble solids concentration, total solids and titratable acidity were greater with late deficit.
- Intervention effect Late deficit raised soluble solids concentration by 2.8;deg;Brix.
- Intervention effect Soluble solids yield per hectare under late deficit was not significantly lower than other treatments.
- Intervention effect The soluble solids gain occurred without a decrease in juice viscosity or consistency.
- Method / resource The authors developed simple models to predict effects of soil water deficit on fruit quality.
- Recommendation The authors identify irrigation management as an opportunity to improve processing quality and profitability.