Claim · model-written summary
Total sugar was reduced in biostimulant-treated sweet pepper fruits.
- Taxon
- Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuumt0 - Treatment
- biostimulant treatmentse6
- Outcome
- total sugare6
- Direction
- reductionse6
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Sweet Pepper Fruits (Capsicum annuum L.)”
e6“accompanied by reductions in total sugar in the biostimulant treatments”
Title
Tilen Zamljen; Robert Veberič; Ana Slatnar Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 2025. doi:10.1007/s00344-025-11675-x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Humic acid did not change fruit length, width or dry weight of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Humistar treatment significantly enhanced pericarp thickness after storage in sweet pepper.
- Association Humistar-treated sweet pepper fruits had higher water contents after storage.
- Observation The control treatment of sweet pepper had the highest water loss after storage, 5.2%.
- Observation Sucrose increased in the control treatment of sweet pepper.
- Observation Glucose decreased in the control treatment of sweet pepper.
- Observation Ascorbic and citric acids decreased significantly in sweet pepper after storage.
- Observation Malic and tartaric acids increased in all treatments of sweet pepper.
- Intervention effect Humistar treatment increased total phenolics by 31.8% after storage compared with the control.
- Observation Chlorogenic acid showed variable changes in sweet pepper fruits.