Abstract
The breakdown of dormancy and early sprouting is one of the main causes of losses of stored potatoes. Sprouting control becomes important especially when tubers are submitted to long-term storage for further processing by the potato industry. The objective of this work is to evaluate the effect of organic sprout inhibitors, eugenol and menthol essential oils, on the suppression of growth on non-dormant ‘Asterix’ tubers stored at 8 °C. Administration of eugenol and menthol essential oils reduced the number and the length of sprouts during cold storage up to fifty days. Nevertheless, the essential oils stimulated the break of bud apical dominance, stimulating auxiliary buds growth. The effect of the oils was restricted to inducing necrosis of superficial sprout cells without any apparent effect on the skin periderm structure. Repeated applications of oils are necessary to prolong the inhibitory effects of the essential oils on sprouts growth.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Eugenol essential oil reduced sprout number and length during cold storage up to fifty days.
- Taxon
- Potato
Solanum tuberosumt0 - Treatment
- eugenole0
- Outcome
- number and the length of sproutse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- cold storage up to fifty dayse0
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Verbatim
e0“Administration of eugenol and menthol essential oils reduced the number and the length of sprouts during cold storage up to fifty days”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Menthol essential oil reduced sprout number and length during cold storage up to fifty days.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- menthole0
- Outcome
- number and the length of sproutse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- cold storage up to fifty dayse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Administration of eugenol and menthol essential oils reduced the number and the length of sprouts during cold storage up to fifty days”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
The essential oils broke bud apical dominance and stimulated auxiliary bud growth.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- essential oilse0
- Outcome
- break of bud apical dominance, stimulating auxiliary buds growthe0
- Direction
- stimulatede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the essential oils stimulated the break of bud apical dominance, stimulating auxiliary buds growth”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
The oils induced necrosis in superficial sprout cells.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- oilse0
- Outcome
- necrosis of superficial sprout cellse0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effect of the oils was restricted to inducing necrosis of superficial sprout cells without any apparent effect on the skin periderm structure”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
The oils had no apparent effect on skin periderm structure.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Treatment
- oilse0
- Outcome
- skin periderm structuree0
- Direction
- without any apparent effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The effect of the oils was restricted to inducing necrosis of superficial sprout cells without any apparent effect on the skin periderm structure”
t0“Potato”
Claim · model-written summary
Repeated oil applications are needed to prolong sprout growth inhibition.
- Taxon
- PotatoSolanum tuberosumt0
- Outcome
- Repeated applications of oils are necessary to prolong the inhibitory effects of the essential oils on sprouts growthe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Repeated applications of oils are necessary to prolong the inhibitory effects of the essential oils on sprouts growth”
t0“Potato”
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