Open AccessEffect of Polyethylene on Fruit Yield and Morpho-Biochemical Features During Ripening of a Local Tomato Cultivar Grown in a Tropical Environmental Condition, India
Author(s) -
Sunil Kumar Pradhan,
Ajaya Kumar Patra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
biosciences biotechnology research asia/biosciences biotechnology research asia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2456-2602
pISSN - 0973-1245
DOI - 10.13005/bbra/2867
Subject(s) - ripening , ascorbic acid , lycopene , sugar , horticulture , lycopersicon , cultivar , yield (engineering) , biology , carotenoid , botany , food science , materials science , metallurgy
The work was assessed the field performance of Polythene cover on morphology, fruit yield and post maturation changes on growing tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Data revealed that use of polythene gave adverse effect on average height in treated condition but favourable for matured ripen fruits (41.5%). Significant correlation observed in the post maturation (0.731, P≤0.01) and fruits ripening time (0.605, P≤0.01). The fruit yield was found to be significantly increased by 61.23%. Polythene induced ripening had shown the variation in the amount of lycopene (429.3mg/100gm), protein (1.92%), ascorbic acid (23.68 mg/ 100gm) and the sugar (5.02%). Polythene covering was significant and positively correlated with lycopene (0.788, P<0.01), lipid(0.853, P<0.01),ascorbic acid(0.515 P<0.01) but negatively correlated with protein(-0.221P<0.05).Maturity at harvest is a very important attribute to tomatoes quality that found to be regulated by the use of polythene. Analysis of variance also showed statistically significant result in the lipid (F-value=14.688801,p≤0.01) ,sugar(F value= 25.52718,p≤0.01) and ascorbic acid (F-value=9.44343,p≤0.01).