Abstract
This study investigated foliar applications' impact of micronutrients on the guava fruits quality. T he experiment was conducted in a guava orchard of Lovely Professional University, Agriculture Farm, in Punjab, India, using the Allahabad Safeda cultivar. Seven treatments were applied, including different combinations of boric acid, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, and calcium chloride, while the control treatment received water only. Different quality parameters such as antioxidant activity, total sugars, total soluble solids (TSS), non-reducing sugars, ascorbic acid, reducing sugars, and titratable acidity were evaluated. The outcomes revealed that the micronutrient treatments had a significant impact on these quality attributes. Treatment T 5 , which consisted of boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%), demonstrated the highest TSS content, as well as increased non-reducing sugars, antioxidant activity, reducing sugars, total sugars, and ascorbic acid compared to other treatments. The findings suggest that the foliar application of micronutrients, particularly boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%), can enhance the quality characteristics of guava fruits.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Micronutrient treatments had a significant impact on guava fruit quality attributes compared with the water-only control.
- Taxon
- Guava
Psidium guajavat0 - Treatment
- micronutrient treatmentse1
- Outcome
- quality attributese1
- Direction
- significant impacte1
- Comparator
- control treatmente2
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Verbatim
t0“Effect of foliar micronutrients on the phytochemical composition of the Allahabad Safeda Guava”
e1“the micronutrient treatments had a significant impact on these quality attributes”
e2“while the control treatment received water only”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatment T5 (boric acid, zinc sulfate and calcium chloride) gave the highest TSS content of guava fruit compared with other treatments.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%)e3
- Outcome
- TSS contente3
- Direction
- higheste3
- Comparator
- other treatmentse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of foliar micronutrients on the phytochemical composition of the Allahabad Safeda Guava”
e3“Treatment T 5 , which consisted of boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%), demonstrated the highest TSS content”
e5“total sugars, and ascorbic acid compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatment T5 increased non-reducing sugars, antioxidant activity and reducing sugars of guava fruit compared with other treatments.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%)e3
- Outcome
- non-reducing sugars, antioxidant activity, reducing sugarse4
- Direction
- increasede4
- Comparator
- other treatmentse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of foliar micronutrients on the phytochemical composition of the Allahabad Safeda Guava”
e3“Treatment T 5 , which consisted of boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%), demonstrated the highest TSS content”
e4“increased non-reducing sugars, antioxidant activity, reducing sugars”
e5“total sugars, and ascorbic acid compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatment T5 increased total sugars and ascorbic acid of guava fruit compared with other treatments.
- Taxon
- GuavaPsidium guajavat0
- Treatment
- boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%)e3
- Outcome
- total sugars, and ascorbic acide5
- Direction
- increasede4
- Comparator
- other treatmentse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of foliar micronutrients on the phytochemical composition of the Allahabad Safeda Guava”
e3“Treatment T 5 , which consisted of boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%), demonstrated the highest TSS content”
e4“increased non-reducing sugars, antioxidant activity, reducing sugars”
e5“total sugars, and ascorbic acid compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Foliar application of micronutrients, particularly boric acid, zinc sulfate and calcium chloride, can enhance guava fruit quality.
- Taxon
- guava fruitsPsidium guajavae6
- Treatment
- foliar application of micronutrientse6
- Outcome
- quality characteristicse6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effect of foliar micronutrients on the phytochemical composition of the Allahabad Safeda Guava”
e6“The findings suggest that the foliar application of micronutrients, particularly boric acid (0.5%), zinc sulfate (0.5%), and calcium chloride (2%), can enhance the quality characteristics of guava fruits”
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