Abstract
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits due to their high moisture content are spoiled and deteriorate in short period of time. Once fruits are harvested, respiration and transpiration are the two major physiological processes that significantly affect storage life and quality of the fruits. However, effects of these processes can be minimized through optimizing harvesting stage of fruits and applying physical barriers for oxygen diffusion and moisture migration. The aim of this work was to investigate the combined effect of stage of harvesting of fruits and application of edible coating materials on storage life and quality of tomato fruits. Treatment combinations were the three harvesting stages of the fruits (mature green, turning and light red stages) and two coating materials (pectin and chitosan with control). Treatments were laid out in a completely randomized design with three replications. Sample fruits were evaluated periodically for different parameters. The study showed that, coating of tomato fruits delayed the ripening process with better fruits quality than uncoated ones. Combined treatment combinations resulted in a significant delay in the change of weight loss, disease incidence, disease severity and ripening index as compared to control fruits. Moreover, in terms chemical parameters, coated fruits revealed higher amount of ascorbic acid, lycopene and phenolic contents. Fruits coated with either chitosan or pectin at turning stage of maturity showed relatively better results for most of the quality parameters. Maximum shelf life was observed for fruits harvested at turning stage coated by pectin (17 days) and chitosan (16 days) films than control (10 days) at the same stage of maturity. Therefore, storage life of the fruits with better quality can be extended by combining optimum stage of harvesting with use of edible coating materials. Key words: Tomato, harvesting stage, edible coating, pectin, chitosan, storage life.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Coating tomato fruits delayed ripening compared with uncoated fruits, with better quality.
- Taxon
- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicume0 - Treatment
- coatinge1
- Outcome
- ripening processe1
- Direction
- delayede1
- Comparator
- uncoated onese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e1“coating of tomato fruits delayed the ripening process with better fruits quality than uncoated ones”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined harvest stage and coating treatments significantly delayed the change in weight loss, disease incidence and disease severity compared with control fruits.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Combined treatment combinationse2
- Outcome
- weight loss, disease incidence, disease severitye2
- Direction
- delaye2
- Comparator
- control fruitse2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e2“Combined treatment combinations resulted in a significant delay in the change of weight loss, disease incidence, disease severity and ripening index as compared to control fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined harvest stage and coating treatments significantly delayed the change in ripening index compared with control fruits.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- Combined treatment combinationse2
- Outcome
- ripening indexe2
- Direction
- delaye2
- Comparator
- control fruitse2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e2“Combined treatment combinations resulted in a significant delay in the change of weight loss, disease incidence, disease severity and ripening index as compared to control fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Coated tomato fruits had higher ascorbic acid, lycopene and phenolic contents than uncoated fruits.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- coatede3
- Outcome
- ascorbic acid, lycopene and phenolic contentse3
- Direction
- highere3
- Comparator
- uncoated onese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e3“coated fruits revealed higher amount of ascorbic acid, lycopene and phenolic contents”
e1“better fruits quality than uncoated ones”
Claim · model-written summary
Pectin coating of fruits harvested at turning stage gave a maximum shelf life of 17 days, against 10 days for control.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Organ / stage
- turning stagee4
- Treatment
- fruits harvested at turning stage coated by pectine4
- Outcome
- shelf lifee4
- Direction
- Maximume4
- Value
- 17 dayse4
- Qualifier
- control (10 days)e4
- Comparator
- controle4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e4“Maximum shelf life was observed for fruits harvested at turning stage coated by pectin (17 days) and chitosan (16 days) films than control (10 days) at the same stage of maturity”
Claim · model-written summary
Chitosan coating of fruits harvested at turning stage gave a maximum shelf life of 16 days, against 10 days for control.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Organ / stage
- turning stagee4
- Treatment
- chitosane4
- Outcome
- shelf lifee4
- Direction
- Maximume4
- Value
- 16 dayse4
- Qualifier
- control (10 days)e4
- Comparator
- controle4
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e4“Maximum shelf life was observed for fruits harvested at turning stage coated by pectin (17 days) and chitosan (16 days) films than control (10 days) at the same stage of maturity”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruits coated with chitosan or pectin at turning stage showed relatively better results for most quality parameters.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Organ / stage
- turning stagee5
- Treatment
- coated with either chitosan or pectine5
- Outcome
- quality parameterse5
- Direction
- bettere5
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e5“Fruits coated with either chitosan or pectin at turning stage of maturity showed relatively better results for most of the quality parameters”
Claim · model-written summary
Combining optimum harvest stage with edible coating materials can extend storage life of tomato fruits with better quality.
- Taxon
- TomatoSolanum lycopersicume0
- Treatment
- combining optimum stage of harvesting with use of edible coating materialse6
- Outcome
- storage lifee6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) fruits”
e6“storage life of the fruits with better quality can be extended by combining optimum stage of harvesting with use of edible coating materials”
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