Abstract
An investigation on improvement of quality of guava cv. Lalit fruits through bagging was carried out at Department Applied Plant Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India during October 2012- March 2013. The area of experiment was dry and comes under subtropical area of central Uttar Pradesh. Various polyethylene covers with different colours i.e. silver, white, yellow, green, black and pink were included for the study and uncovered fruits were kept for the control. The results revealed that fruit bagging in general, improved the growth and quality development of guava fruits as compared to unbagging control. It was also observed that fruit size, weight and pulp content increased due to fruit covering. Fruit was found maximum in size under yellow polythene followed by white polythene while, black polythene showed maximum pulp percentage followed by green polythene. Fruit bagging also improved the fruit quality in terms of TSS, total sugars and TSS: acid ratio which were found maximum (14.25° Brix, 11.14% and 30.07, respectively) under yellow polythene but, maximum vitamin C (171.14 mg 100 g-1) content was recorded under white polythene. Among the various fruit covering materials bagging with yellow coloured polythene was found to be the best for overall improvement of physico-chemical quality of winter season guava cv. Lalit under subtropical climate of central Uttar Pradesh.
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Claim · model-written summary
Fruit bagging increased guava fruit size, weight and pulp content against uncovered fruit.
- Taxon
- Guava
Psidium guajavat0 - Treatment
- fruit coveringe0
- Outcome
- fruit size, weight and pulp contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- uncovered fruitse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“fruit size, weight and pulp content increased due to fruit covering”
e1“uncovered fruits were kept for the control”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Yellow polythene produced maximum fruit size.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- yellow polythenee0
- Outcome
- sizee0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Comparator
- white polythenee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit was found maximum in size under yellow polythene followed by white polythene”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Black polythene produced maximum pulp percentage, followed by green.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- black polythenee0
- Outcome
- pulp percentagee0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Comparator
- green polythenee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“black polythene showed maximum pulp percentage followed by green polythene”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Yellow polythene produced maximum TSS of 14.25° Brix.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- yellow polythenee0
- Outcome
- TSSe0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 14.25° Brixe0
- Comparator
- uncovered fruitse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“TSS, total sugars and TSS: acid ratio which were found maximum (14.25° Brix, 11.14% and 30.07, respectively) under yellow polythene”
e1“uncovered fruits were kept for the control”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Yellow polythene produced maximum total sugars of 11.14%.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- yellow polythenee0
- Outcome
- total sugarse0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 11.14%e0
- Comparator
- uncovered fruitse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“TSS, total sugars and TSS: acid ratio which were found maximum (14.25° Brix, 11.14% and 30.07, respectively) under yellow polythene”
e1“uncovered fruits were kept for the control”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
Yellow polythene produced maximum TSS: acid ratio of 30.07.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- yellow polythenee0
- Outcome
- TSS: acid ratioe0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 30.07e0
- Comparator
- uncovered fruitse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“TSS, total sugars and TSS: acid ratio which were found maximum (14.25° Brix, 11.14% and 30.07, respectively) under yellow polythene”
e1“uncovered fruits were kept for the control”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
White polythene produced maximum vitamin C content of 171.14 mg 100 g-1.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- white polythenee0
- Outcome
- vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- maximume0
- Value
- 171.14 mg 100 g-1e0
- Comparator
- uncovered fruitse1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“maximum vitamin C (171.14 mg 100 g-1) content was recorded under white polythene”
e1“uncovered fruits were kept for the control”
t0“Guava”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors judged yellow bagging best for overall guava quality.
- Taxon
- guavaPsidium guajavae0
- Treatment
- yellow coloured polythenee0
- Outcome
- best for overall improvement of physico-chemical qualitye0
- Setting
- central Uttar Pradeshe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“bagging with yellow coloured polythene was found to be the best for overall improvement of physico-chemical quality of winter season guava cv. Lalit under subtropical climate of central Uttar Pradesh”
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