Abstract
Abstract Tomatoes (Lycoperscion esculentum Mill.) were grown in the greenhouse to determine if excess water and/or N rates are involved with a nonbacterial “soft‐fruit”; problem which has been encountered in the Southeastern Coastal Plain. The treatments included flooding for 0, 5, or 8 days and three rates of N (245, 346, or 627 kg/ha). Flooding induced stomatal closure, hastened fruit maturation, and significantly reduced internal fruit firmness after 8 days of storage at 20°C, but N had no significant effect. Stomata closed approximately 3 days after plants were flooded and were permanently impaired in plants flooded for 8 days. These results suggest that for tomatoes grown on the Norfolk soil association (Typic Paleudults) irrigation applied during fruiting must be carefully managed to prevent excess soil‐water in the root zone which can cause stomatal closure and subsequently influence the storage quality of the fruit.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Flooding induced stomatal closure in tomato.
- Taxon
- Tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicumt0 - Treatment
- Floodinge0
- Outcome
- stomatal closuree0
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e0“Flooding induced stomatal closure”
t0“Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Flooding hastened tomato fruit maturation.
- Taxon
- TomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Floodinge0
- Outcome
- fruit maturatione0
- Direction
- hastenede0
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e0“Flooding induced stomatal closure, hastened fruit maturation”
t0“Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Flooding significantly reduced internal fruit firmness after eight days of storage.
- Taxon
- TomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Floodinge0
- Outcome
- internal fruit firmnesse0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- after 8 days of storage at 20°Ce0
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e0“Flooding induced stomatal closure, hastened fruit maturation, and significantly reduced internal fruit firmness after 8 days of storage at 20°C”
t0“Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen rate had no significant effect on the reported tomato responses.
- Taxon
- TomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Ne0
- Outcome
- no significant effecte0
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e0“but N had no significant effect”
t0“Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Stomata closed about three days after flooding.
- Taxon
- TomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- floodede0
- Outcome
- Stomata closede0
- Value
- 3 dayse0
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e0“Stomata closed approximately 3 days after plants were flooded”
t0“Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
Stomata were permanently impaired after eight days of flooding.
- Taxon
- TomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- flooded for 8 dayse0
- Outcome
- permanently impairede0
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e0“were permanently impaired in plants flooded for 8 days”
t0“Tomatoes”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend careful irrigation management during tomato fruiting to prevent excess soil water.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- irrigation applied during fruiting must be carefully managede0
- Qualifier
- prevent excess soil‐water in the root zonee0
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Verbatim
e0“irrigation applied during fruiting must be carefully managed to prevent excess soil‐water in the root zone”
t0“tomatoes”
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