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    <language>eng</language>
          <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia</journalTitle>
          <issn>0973-1245</issn>
            <publicationDate>2020-09-25</publicationDate>
    
        <volume>17</volume>
        <issue>3</issue>

 
    <startPage>637</startPage>
    <endPage>643</endPage>

	 
      <doi>10.13005/bbra/2867</doi>
        <publisherRecordId>37071</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Effect of Polyethylene on Fruit Yield and Morpho-Biochemical Features During Ripening of a Local Tomato Cultivar Grown in a Tropical Environmental Condition, India</title>

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      <author>
       <name>Sunil Chandra Pradhan</name>

 
		
	<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <author>
       <name>Ajaya Kumar Patra</name>


		
	<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>

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		<affiliationName affiliationId="1">Department of Zoology, Utkal University, VaniVihar, Bhubaneswar, India.</affiliationName>
    

		
		<affiliationName affiliationId="2">Kandarpur Degree College, Kandarpur, Cuttack, India.</affiliationName>
    
		
		
		
		
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    <abstract language="eng"><p style="text-align: justify;">The work was assessed the field performance of Polythene cover on morphology, fruit yield and post maturation changes on growing tomato (<em>Lycopersicon esculentum)</em>. 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,<em> P</em>≤0.01) and fruits ripening time (0.605,<em> P</em>≤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&lt;0.01), lipid(0.853, P&lt;0.01),ascorbic acid(0.515 P&lt;0.01) but negatively correlated with protein(-0.221P&lt;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).</p></abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol17no3/effect-of-polyethylene-on-fruit-yield-and-morpho-biochemical-features-during-ripening-of-a-local-tomato-cultivar-grown-in-a-tropical-environmental-condition-india/</fullTextUrl>



      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword>Biochemical features</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Lycopersicon esculentum</keyword>
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      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Polyethylene</keyword>
      </keywords>

      <keywords language="eng">
        <keyword> Post mature changes.</keyword>
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