Abstract
Serious, postharvest decay losses occurred in tomatoes when water in which they were submerged was cooler than the fruit. Tomatoes have extensive intercellular air spaces, a heavily cutinized epidermis, and no stomatal openings. When tomatoes with unbroken skins were submerged in packinghouse dump tank water of lower temperatures, the internal air contracted and water plus decay organisms were drawn into the fruits through the stem scar. Heating dump tank water has been successful in limiting this decay problem.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Cooler immersion water caused serious postharvest tomato decay losses.
- Taxon
- tomatoes
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- water in which they were submerged was cooler than the fruite0
- Outcome
- postharvest decay lossese0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Serious, postharvest decay losses occurred in tomatoes when water in which they were submerged was cooler than the fruit.”
Claim · model-written summary
Tomatoes have extensive intercellular air spaces, a heavily cutinized epidermis and no stomata.
- Taxon
- TomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Outcome
- extensive intercellular air spaces, a heavily cutinized epidermis, and no stomatal openingse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomatoes have extensive intercellular air spaces, a heavily cutinized epidermis, and no stomatal openings.”
Claim · model-written summary
Cooler immersion water drew water and decay organisms through stem scars into intact tomatoes as internal air contracted.
- Taxon
- tomatoesSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- packinghouse dump tank water of lower temperaturese0
- Outcome
- water plus decay organisms were drawn into the fruits through the stem scare0
- Qualifier
- internal air contractede0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“When tomatoes with unbroken skins were submerged in packinghouse dump tank water of lower temperatures, the internal air contracted and water plus decay organisms were drawn into the fruits through the stem scar.”
Claim · model-written summary
Heating dump tank water limited tomato decay.
- Taxon
- TomatoesSolanum lycopersicumt0
- Treatment
- Heating dump tank watere0
- Outcome
- decay probleme0
- Direction
- limitinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Heating dump tank water has been successful in limiting this decay problem.”
t0“Tomatoes”
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