HE PRESENT investigation was carried out in a private farm …..located at Alexandria desert road, El-Behira Governorate, Egypt to study the effect of bagging type on reducing pomegranate fruit disorders and improving fruit quality during 2011 and 2012 seasons. The bagging treatments were, brown paper bag, white paper bag, prgmen bag, agrail white bag, agrail red bag, agrail blue bag and plastic bag. The treatments started at 21 days after fruit set and sustained till harvest time. The obtained results showed that, bagging fruits with prgmen bag increased fruit length, fruit diameter, grain weight percentage, fruit weight (g), yield/tree (kg), TSS %, total soluble sugars, vitamin C content and total anthocyanin content in fruit juice. While, the percentage of cracked fruits, sunburn fruits /tree and fruit mechanical damage were reduced as compared to the other treatments. On the other hand, bagged fruits with plastic bags increased peel weight percentage and total acidity percentage. Moreover, bagging with agrail blue bag had a significant effect on increasing values of lightness (L) .While, bagging with prgmen bag had a significant effect on higher values of lightness (L) and redness (a) compared to the other treatments. Generally, it can be recommended from this study that, bagging pomegranate fruits with prgmen bags was the best in reducing fruit disorders with improving fruit quality as well as increasing the net profit for farmer.
Fresh apricots have high nutritional value and demand. Determination of the appropriate maturity is vital for fruit storage. The effects of harvest maturity on chilling injury and storage quality were investigated in this study. Xinjiang Saimaiti apricots were used as the material; the fruit was picked at three different maturity classes, maturity class I (colored area < 50%), maturity class II (colored area 50-80%), and maturity class III (colored area > 80%) according to yellow conversion rate, and stored at 0 ∘ C and 90-95% RH. Chilling injury incidence, chilling index, and the physiological indicators were evaluated. The results showed that the incidence, index of chilling injury, and firmness in apricots of maturity class I were highest than other two groups, but maturity class I apricots did not ripe. Although the incidence and index of chilling injury in maturity class III were relatively low, fruit firmness decreased rapidly. The incidence and index of chilling injury of apricots in maturity class II were lower than those of fruits at maturity class I, whereas fruit firmness, soluble solid content, ascorbic acid level, and extractable juice quantity relatively were well-maintained. Therefore, maturity class II was considered the appropriate maturity stage at harvest for storage.
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