Abstract
In this study, calcium chloride (CaCl 2 ) and two organic calcium compounds including Calcicat and Folical and water (as control) were applied at four different spray programs (All-season, Early, Mid and Late season spray) at the Abhar region in Iran during 2012 and compared. 6-year-old 'Standard Fuji' trees grafted on 'MM106' rootstock were used in this study. All spray programs involved 6 biweekly sprays. Fruits harvested at commercial maturity stage and stored at commercial cold storage at 0 C and RH 95%. Overall, all treated fruits received Late season CaCl 2 had higher Ca content, lower K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratios, and fruits treated with Folical Mid season had lower Ca, higher K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratios. Yield efficiency (No. of fruits per cm 2 trunk cross-sectional area (TCSA)) and fresh fruit weight was affected by preharvest treatments. Ca application resulted in reduced yield efficiency. SSC, TA and flesh firmness were affected by Ca application and spray programs at harvest and during 3 and 6 months storage. Control fruits in All-season spray program had highest content of SSC and fruits received CaCl 2 Early had lowest SSC at harvest. Folical Allseason resulted in fruits with higher acidity than its control. Fruits treated with Calcicat Early had lower acidity. During 3 and 6 months cold storage, SSC increased and TA decreased. During 6 months storage, Calcicat All-season had higher SSC. Fruits received early season CaCl 2 had more acidity than other treatments. All-season spray of Calcicat resulted in fruits with higher firmness than other treatments. The flesh firmness during 3 and 6 months storage decreased. According to the obtained data this reduction had not specific trend among treatments.
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Claims 18
Claim · model-written summary
Late season CaCl 2 increased fruit Ca content.
- Taxon
- apple
Malus domesticat0 - Treatment
- Late season CaCl 2e0
- Outcome
- Ca contente0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“all treated fruits received Late season CaCl 2 had higher Ca content”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Late season CaCl 2 lowered fruit K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratios.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Late season CaCl 2e0
- Outcome
- K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratiose0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“all treated fruits received Late season CaCl 2 had higher Ca content, lower K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratios”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Mid season Folical yielded lower fruit Ca content.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Folical Mid seasone0
- Outcome
- Cae0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruits treated with Folical Mid season had lower Ca”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Mid season Folical yielded higher fruit K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratios.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Folical Mid seasone0
- Outcome
- K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratiose0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruits treated with Folical Mid season had lower Ca, higher K/Ca and (K+Mg)/Ca ratios”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Preharvest treatments affected yield efficiency and fresh fruit weight.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- preharvest treatmentse0
- Outcome
- Yield efficiency (No. of fruits per cm 2 trunk cross-sectional area (TCSA)) and fresh fruit weighte0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Yield efficiency (No. of fruits per cm 2 trunk cross-sectional area (TCSA)) and fresh fruit weight was affected by preharvest treatments”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium application reduced yield efficiency.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Ca applicatione0
- Outcome
- yield efficiencye0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ca application resulted in reduced yield efficiency”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium application and spray programs affected SSC, TA and flesh firmness at harvest and during storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Ca application and spray programse0
- Outcome
- SSC, TA and flesh firmnesse0
- Qualifier
- at harvest and during 3 and 6 months storagee0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“SSC, TA and flesh firmness were affected by Ca application and spray programs at harvest and during 3 and 6 months storage”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
All-season control fruit had the highest SSC at harvest.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- All-season spray programe0
- Outcome
- content of SSCe0
- Direction
- higheste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Control fruits in All-season spray program had highest content of SSC”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Early CaCl 2 fruit had the lowest SSC at harvest.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- CaCl 2 Earlye0
- Outcome
- SSCe0
- Direction
- loweste0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruits received CaCl 2 Early had lowest SSC at harvest”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Allseason Folical increased fruit acidity relative to its control.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Folical Allseasone0
- Outcome
- aciditye0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- its controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Folical Allseason resulted in fruits with higher acidity than its control”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Early Calcicat fruit had lower acidity.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Calcicat Earlye0
- Outcome
- aciditye0
- Direction
- lowere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits treated with Calcicat Early had lower acidity”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
SSC increased during three and six months of cold storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Outcome
- SSCe0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Setting
- cold storagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“During 3 and 6 months cold storage, SSC increased”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
TA decreased during three and six months of cold storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Outcome
- TAe0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Setting
- cold storagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“During 3 and 6 months cold storage, SSC increased and TA decreased”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
All-season Calcicat fruit had higher SSC after six months of storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- Calcicat All-seasone0
- Outcome
- SSCe0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“During 6 months storage, Calcicat All-season had higher SSC”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Early season CaCl 2 fruit had more acidity than other treatments.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- early season CaCl 2e0
- Outcome
- aciditye0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruits received early season CaCl 2 had more acidity than other treatments”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
All-season Calcicat fruit had higher firmness than other treatments.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Treatment
- All-season spray of Calcicate0
- Outcome
- firmnesse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“All-season spray of Calcicat resulted in fruits with higher firmness than other treatments”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
Flesh firmness decreased during three and six months of storage.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Outcome
- flesh firmnesse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Qualifier
- during 3 and 6 months storagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The flesh firmness during 3 and 6 months storage decreased”
t0“apple”
Claim · model-written summary
The storage-related firmness reduction showed no specific trend among treatments.
- Taxon
- appleMalus domesticat0
- Outcome
- flesh firmnesse1
- Direction
- not specific trende0
- Comparator
- treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“According to the obtained data this reduction had not specific trend among treatments”
e1“The flesh firmness during 3 and 6 months storage decreased”
t0“apple”
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