Abstract
The short shelf-life of strawberry fruits is the main challenge for transportation over long distances during export and import around the world. Adding postharvest treatments could increase fruits decay during transportation. Thus, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of pre-harvest applications with different rates of calcium chloride (0.5, 1, and 2 %) and potassium silicate (0.4, 0.6, and 0.8 %) on growth, yield, fruit characteristics, shelf-life for 7 days at 10°C on the content of bioactive compounds, and the activity of enzymes in strawberries. The results indicated that calcium chloride and potassium silicate significantly increased leaves number, plant fresh weight, chlorophyll percentage, plant leaf area, and dry matter compared to the control. Additionally, calcium chloride and potassium silicate significantly increased total yield, marketable yield, fruit length, fruit weight, and fruit diameter. Calcium chloride was the most effective treatment for decreasing weight loss and increasing fruit firmness and total anthocyanin compared to other treatments. Moreover, potassium silicate was the most effective treatment for enhancing vitamin C. Both compounds significantly increased total sugar, antioxidant capacity, and peroxidase (POD) activity. Our results offer crucial data for commercial producers to increase production, enhance postharvest quality, and extend shelf life, thus permitting a wider range of strawberry retail marketing.
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Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride increased strawberry leaves, fresh weight, chlorophyll, leaf area, and dry matter.
- Taxon
- strawberries
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Fragaria ×ananassae1 - Treatment
- calcium chloridee0
- Outcome
- leaves number, plant fresh weight, chlorophyll percentage, plant leaf area, and dry mattere0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- the controle0
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e0“calcium chloride and potassium silicate significantly increased leaves number, plant fresh weight, chlorophyll percentage, plant leaf area, and dry matter compared to the control”
e1“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium silicate increased strawberry leaves, fresh weight, chlorophyll, leaf area, and dry matter.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae1
- Treatment
- potassium silicatee0
- Outcome
- leaves number, plant fresh weight, chlorophyll percentage, plant leaf area, and dry mattere0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- the controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“calcium chloride and potassium silicate significantly increased leaves number, plant fresh weight, chlorophyll percentage, plant leaf area, and dry matter compared to the control”
e1“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride increased total and marketable yields and fruit size traits.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae1
- Treatment
- calcium chloridee0
- Outcome
- total yield, marketable yield, fruit length, fruit weight, and fruit diametere0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“calcium chloride and potassium silicate significantly increased total yield, marketable yield, fruit length, fruit weight, and fruit diameter”
e1“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium silicate increased total and marketable yields and fruit size traits.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae1
- Treatment
- potassium silicatee0
- Outcome
- total yield, marketable yield, fruit length, fruit weight, and fruit diametere0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“calcium chloride and potassium silicate significantly increased total yield, marketable yield, fruit length, fruit weight, and fruit diameter”
e1“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride most effectively decreased fruit weight loss.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae1
- Treatment
- Calcium chloridee0
- Outcome
- weight losse0
- Direction
- decreasinge0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e0“Calcium chloride was the most effective treatment for decreasing weight loss and increasing fruit firmness and total anthocyanin compared to other treatments”
e1“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride most effectively increased fruit firmness and anthocyanin.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae1
- Treatment
- Calcium chloridee0
- Outcome
- fruit firmness and total anthocyanine0
- Direction
- increasinge0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Calcium chloride was the most effective treatment for decreasing weight loss and increasing fruit firmness and total anthocyanin compared to other treatments”
e1“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium silicate most effectively enhanced vitamin C.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae1
- Treatment
- potassium silicatee0
- Outcome
- vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- enhancinge0
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e0“potassium silicate was the most effective treatment for enhancing vitamin C”
e1“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium chloride increased sugar, antioxidant capacity, and POD activity.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae2
- Treatment
- calcium chloridee1
- Outcome
- total sugar, antioxidant capacity, and peroxidase (POD) activitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Both compounds significantly increased total sugar, antioxidant capacity, and peroxidase (POD) activity”
e1“calcium chloride (0.5, 1, and 2 %) and potassium silicate (0.4, 0.6, and 0.8 %)”
e2“strawberries”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium silicate increased sugar, antioxidant capacity, and POD activity.
- Taxon
- strawberriesFragaria ×ananassae2
- Treatment
- potassium silicatee1
- Outcome
- total sugar, antioxidant capacity, and peroxidase (POD) activitye0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Both compounds significantly increased total sugar, antioxidant capacity, and peroxidase (POD) activity”
e1“calcium chloride (0.5, 1, and 2 %) and potassium silicate (0.4, 0.6, and 0.8 %)”
e2“strawberries”
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