Abstract
ABSTRACT Main stem pruning and fruit thinning are cultivation practices that can influence the yield and quality of the fruit. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of main stem pruning and fruit thinning on the postharvest conservation of Charentais Banzai melons. In the field, the plants were subjected to main stem pruning and fruit thinning, with harvesting done 74 days after sowing (DAS). The fruits were transported to the laboratory where they were cleaned, characterized, and stored in a cold chamber (5 °C and 90 ± 2% RH). In the field, the experiment was designed as a split-plot using a 2 × 4 + 1 factorial design, with two levels of main stem pruning (pruned and unpruned), four levels of thinning times (42, 45, 48, and 51 DAS), and a control (unpruned and unthinned). The sub-plot consisted of storage times (0, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days), with four blocks. The preharvest treatments did not significantly influence the production characteristics of the Banzai hybrid. The treatment without pruning increased the titratable acidity of fruit, and the thinning at 51 days after sowing (DAS) reduced soluble sugars. There was a decline in pulp firmness, titratable acidity, reducing sugars, and an increase in soluble solids, total soluble sugar, and non-reducing sugars during storage. Pruning the main melon stem reduced the weight loss of the fruit after 28 days of storage.
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Claim · model-written summary
The treatment without pruning increased the titratable acidity of melon fruit.
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- melon
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- without pruninge0
- Outcome
- titratable acidity of fruite0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“The treatment without pruning increased the titratable acidity of fruit”
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Claim · model-written summary
Thinning at 51 days after sowing reduced soluble sugars of melon fruit.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- thinning at 51 days after sowing (DAS)e0
- Outcome
- soluble sugarse0
- Direction
- reducede0
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e0“the thinning at 51 days after sowing (DAS) reduced soluble sugars”
t0“melon”
Claim · model-written summary
Pulp firmness, titratable acidity and reducing sugars of melon fruit declined during storage.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- storagee0
- Outcome
- pulp firmness, titratable acidity, reducing sugarse0
- Direction
- declinee0
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e0“There was a decline in pulp firmness, titratable acidity, reducing sugars, and an increase in soluble solids, total soluble sugar, and non-reducing sugars during storage”
t0“melon”
Claim · model-written summary
Soluble solids, total soluble sugar and non-reducing sugars of melon fruit increased during storage.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- storagee0
- Outcome
- soluble solids, total soluble sugar, and non-reducing sugarse0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“There was a decline in pulp firmness, titratable acidity, reducing sugars, and an increase in soluble solids, total soluble sugar, and non-reducing sugars during storage”
t0“melon”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning the main melon stem reduced fruit weight loss after 28 days of storage.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- Pruning the main melon steme0
- Outcome
- weight loss of the fruite0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- after 28 days of storagee0
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Verbatim
e0“Pruning the main melon stem reduced the weight loss of the fruit after 28 days of storage”
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