Abstract
SummaryThe feasibility of using alternating temperatures of 2°C and 20°C to delay the ripening of mature tomatoes without adversely affecting appearance or taste of the ripe fruit was investigated. A 24-h respite at 20°C was given after 1–6 days at 2°C, and the treatment continued for 1–4 weeks after which the fruits were returned to 20°C. Cyclical temperature regimes invariably led to loss of quality. As an alternative technique green-orange fruits were enclosed in polyethylene and kept at several temperatures below ambient. The build-up of modified atmospheres extended the ripening time, improved firmness and maintained quality. Under some storage conditions fruit decay reached unacceptable levels, but if short-term storage at a moderately low temperature was combined with restricted gas-exchange, this could form the basis of an effective low-cost system.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
Cyclic alternating temperature regimes invariably led to a decrease in tomato fruit quality.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- Cyclical temperature regimese1
- Outcome
- qualitye1
- Direction
- decreaseinferrede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“to delay the ripening of mature tomatoes”
e1“Cyclical temperature regimes invariably led to loss of quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Enclosing green-orange tomato fruit in polyethylene extended the ripening time.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- enclosed in polyethylenee3
- Outcome
- ripening timee2
- Direction
- extendede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“to delay the ripening of mature tomatoes”
e2“The build-up of modified atmospheres extended the ripening time, improved firmness and maintained quality”
e3“green-orange fruits were enclosed in polyethylene”
Claim · model-written summary
Enclosing green-orange tomato fruit in polyethylene improved firmness.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- enclosed in polyethylenee3
- Outcome
- firmnesse2
- Direction
- improvede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“to delay the ripening of mature tomatoes”
e2“The build-up of modified atmospheres extended the ripening time, improved firmness and maintained quality”
e3“green-orange fruits were enclosed in polyethylene”
Claim · model-written summary
Enclosing green-orange tomato fruit in polyethylene maintained quality.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- enclosed in polyethylenee3
- Outcome
- qualitye2
- Direction
- maintainede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“to delay the ripening of mature tomatoes”
e2“The build-up of modified atmospheres extended the ripening time, improved firmness and maintained quality”
e3“green-orange fruits were enclosed in polyethylene”
Claim · model-written summary
Under some storage conditions tomato fruit decay increased to unacceptable levels.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- some storage conditionse4
- Outcome
- fruit decaye4
- Direction
- increaseinferrede4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“to delay the ripening of mature tomatoes”
e4“Under some storage conditions fruit decay reached unacceptable levels”
Claim · model-written summary
Short-term storage at a moderately low temperature combined with restricted gas-exchange could form the basis of an effective low-cost system for tomato.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Outcome
- effective low-cost systeme5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“The Short-Term Storage of Tomato Fruit”
e5“if short-term storage at a moderately low temperature was combined with restricted gas-exchange, this could form the basis of an effective low-cost system”
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