Paper · 2017 · Progress in nutrition

Preharvest Ethephon spray on fruit quality and increasing the rate of ripening of date palm fruit (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cv. Helali

Adel M. Al-Saif; Abdullah Alebidi; Rashid S. Al-Obeed; et al.

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Abstract

This study was conducted at the Dirab, to study the effect of fruits date (bisir stage) spray by ethephon solution on fruit physical and chemical properties. Results showed that spraying ethephon significantly affected by different treatments for Helali cultivar in both seasons of study. It was clearly noticed that there is a positive relationship between ethephon concentrations and fruit physical and chemical properties. Meanwhile, found there is a direct correlation between the concentrations of ethephon and increase the proportion of rutab date. Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppm resulted in decreased fruit dimension, flesh weight, fruit weight, fruit volume, total acidity percentage and moisture content. In addition, increased of total soluble solids, reducing and total sugars percentage at rutab stage during in both seasons of study compared to the control at harvest. It is concluded that spray by ethephon on bisir stage of Helali date fruit for increasing the proportion of ripening and rutab date moreover early harvest.

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Claims 12

Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon concentration was positively related to fruit physical and chemical properties.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
ethephon concentrationse1
Outcome
fruit physical and chemical propertiese1
Direction
positive relationshipe1

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

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e1

“there is a positive relationship between ethephon concentrations and fruit physical and chemical properties”

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Associationobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Higher ethephon concentration correlated with a higher proportion of rutab dates.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
ethephone2
Outcome
proportion of rutab datee2
Direction
increasee2

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

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“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e2

“there is a direct correlation between the concentrations of ethephon and increase the proportion of rutab date”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 443–553 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmixedmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased fruit dimension.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppme3
Outcome
fruit dimensione3
Direction
decreasede3

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e3

“Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppm resulted in decreased fruit dimension, flesh weight, fruit weight, fruit volume, total acidity percentage and moisture content.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 555–718 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmixedmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased flesh weight.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppme3
Outcome
flesh weighte3
Direction
decreasede3

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e3

“Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppm resulted in decreased fruit dimension, flesh weight, fruit weight, fruit volume, total acidity percentage and moisture content.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 555–718 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmixedmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased fruit weight.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppme3
Outcome
fruit weighte3
Direction
decreasede3

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e3

“Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppm resulted in decreased fruit dimension, flesh weight, fruit weight, fruit volume, total acidity percentage and moisture content.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 555–718 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmixedmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased fruit volume.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppme3
Outcome
fruit volumee3
Direction
decreasede3

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e3

“Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppm resulted in decreased fruit dimension, flesh weight, fruit weight, fruit volume, total acidity percentage and moisture content.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 555–718 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased total acidity percentage.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppme3
Outcome
total acidity percentagee3
Direction
decreasede3

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e3

“Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppm resulted in decreased fruit dimension, flesh weight, fruit weight, fruit volume, total acidity percentage and moisture content.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 555–718 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon at 1500 ppm decreased moisture content.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppme3
Outcome
moisture contente3
Direction
decreasede3

Not reportedComparator

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e3

“Ethephon treated fruits at 1500 ppm resulted in decreased fruit dimension, flesh weight, fruit weight, fruit volume, total acidity percentage and moisture content.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 555–718 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon increased total soluble solids at the rutab stage relative to the control at harvest.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Organ / stage
rutab stagee4
Treatment
ethephon solutione0
Outcome
total soluble solidse4
Direction
increasede4
Qualifier
both seasons of studye4
Comparator
the control at harveste4

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e0

“at the Dirab, to study the effect of fruits date (bisir stage) spray by ethephon solution on fruit physical and chemical properties”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 25–156 · show in text ↑
e4

“increased of total soluble solids, reducing and total sugars percentage at rutab stage during in both seasons of study compared to the control at harvest”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 732–885 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon increased reducing at the rutab stage relative to the control at harvest.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Organ / stage
rutab stagee4
Treatment
ethephon solutione0
Outcome
reducinge4
Direction
increasede4
Qualifier
both seasons of studye4
Comparator
the control at harveste4

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e0

“at the Dirab, to study the effect of fruits date (bisir stage) spray by ethephon solution on fruit physical and chemical properties”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 25–156 · show in text ↑
e4

“increased of total soluble solids, reducing and total sugars percentage at rutab stage during in both seasons of study compared to the control at harvest”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 732–885 · show in text ↑
Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Ethephon increased total sugars percentage at the rutab stage relative to the control at harvest.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Organ / stage
rutab stagee4
Treatment
ethephon solutione0
Outcome
total sugars percentagee4
Direction
increasede4
Qualifier
both seasons of studye4
Comparator
the control at harveste4

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e0

“at the Dirab, to study the effect of fruits date (bisir stage) spray by ethephon solution on fruit physical and chemical properties”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 25–156 · show in text ↑
e4

“increased of total soluble solids, reducing and total sugars percentage at rutab stage during in both seasons of study compared to the control at harvest”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 732–885 · show in text ↑
Recommendationauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivebasis n/a

Claim · model-written summary

The authors recommend spraying ethephon at the bisir stage to increase ripening and rutab dates and allow early harvest.

Taxon
Phoenix dactylifera L.Phoenix dactyliferat0
Treatment
spray by ethephon on bisir stagee5
Outcome
increasing the proportion of ripening and rutab date moreover early harveste5

Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix dactylifera · TaxonEJ Burns · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

Verbatim

t0

“Phoenix dactylifera L.”

✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 99–121 · show in text ↑
e5

“spray by ethephon on bisir stage of Helali date fruit for increasing the proportion of ripening and rutab date moreover early harvest”

✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 908–1041 · show in text ↑

(2-chloroethyl)phosphonic acid · quality: sugar starch · Phoenix dactylifera (date palm)Results agree

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