Abstract
Vegetables are important component of balanced human diet. Advanced production technologies are being followed to measure productivity and quality of produce. Protected cultivation is an improved agro technique being used worldwide to register 3-4 times increase in production. Tomato is grown extensively in the plastic greenhouses for higher productivity. The growing conditions especially light and temperature are known to influence both composition and quality of tomato fruits. Hence, studies have been conducted to estimate the quality parameters of tomato grown both under open and in polyhouse with shade nets during cloudy weather in rainy season The results reveals that the fruits harvested from the field had higher TSS:TA ratio (11.73), acidity (0.49%), total sugar (2.5%), ascorbic acid (14.7 mg 100g-1), TSS (5.76oB) and the lycopene content (8.7mg 100 g-1) than the fruits grown under protected conditions. However, the environment in the polyhouse favour the growth and development of tomato plant through increased plant height (1.4m) and number of branches. The fruit yield obtained from the polyhouse was higher (2.6 kg plant-1) than the open field (1.5 kg plant-1). Hence, both types of environmental conditions are favourable in some aspects. The parameters of economic importance like fruit weight and yield are better under protected conditions but the nutritional parameters like vitamin C and lycopene content are higher in open conditions during rainy season.
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Claim · model-written summary
Field tomato fruit had a higher TSS:TA ratio than protected fruit, at 11.73.
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e0“fruits harvested from the field had higher TSS:TA ratio (11.73)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Field tomato fruit had higher acidity than protected fruit, at 0.49%.
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Verbatim
e0“fruits harvested from the field had higher TSS:TA ratio (11.73), acidity (0.49%)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Field tomato fruit had higher total sugar than protected fruit, at 2.5%.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruits harvested from the field had higher TSS:TA ratio (11.73), acidity (0.49%), total sugar (2.5%)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Field tomato fruit had higher ascorbic acid than protected fruit, at 14.7 mg 100g-1.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Outcome
- ascorbic acide0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 14.7 mg 100g-1e0
- Setting
- fielde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruits harvested from the field had higher TSS:TA ratio (11.73), acidity (0.49%), total sugar (2.5%), ascorbic acid (14.7 mg 100g-1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Field tomato fruit had higher TSS than protected fruit, at 5.76oB.
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruits harvested from the field had higher TSS:TA ratio (11.73), acidity (0.49%), total sugar (2.5%), ascorbic acid (14.7 mg 100g-1), TSS (5.76oB)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Field tomato fruit had higher lycopene content than protected fruit, at 8.7mg 100 g-1.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- lycopene contente0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 8.7mg 100 g-1e0
- Setting
- fielde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruits harvested from the field had higher TSS:TA ratio (11.73), acidity (0.49%), total sugar (2.5%), ascorbic acid (14.7 mg 100g-1), TSS (5.76oB) and the lycopene content (8.7mg 100 g-1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Polyhouse conditions increased tomato plant height to 1.4m and increased branch number.
- Taxon
- tomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- environment in the polyhousee0
- Outcome
- plant heighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 1.4me0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“environment in the polyhouse favour the growth and development of tomato plant through increased plant height (1.4m) and number of branches”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Polyhouse tomato fruit yield was higher at 2.6 kg plant-1 than open-field yield at 1.5 kg plant-1.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- polyhousee0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- highere0
- Value
- 2.6 kg plant-1e0
- Qualifier
- 1.5 kg plant-1e0
- Comparator
- open fielde0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit yield obtained from the polyhouse was higher (2.6 kg plant-1) than the open field (1.5 kg plant-1)”
t0“Tomato”
Claim · model-written summary
Tomato fruit weight was better under protected conditions.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- protected conditionse0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- bettere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit weight and yield are better under protected conditions”
t0“Tomato”
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