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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (22): 123-128.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb20190700459

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Storage Methods Affect the Quality of Fruit Sugarcane

Lu Guilong1,2(), Qiu Xiaoyu3, Lian Yuzhen3   

  1. 1Institute of Vegetables, Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences, Lhasa 850032
    2Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University/Sugarcane Research & Development Center, China Agricultural Technology System, Fuzhou 350002
    3Research Institute of Tibet Plateau Ecology, Tibet Agriculture & Animal Husbandry University, Nyingchi Tibet 860000
  • Received:2019-07-20 Revised:2019-11-08 Online:2020-08-05 Published:2020-07-22

Abstract:

The changes of texture and physiological characteristics of sugarcane stored in plastic film with different thickness were studied to provide certain references for fresh-keeping of sugarcane. ‘Badila’ was used as the test material, the hardness, soluble solids (TSS), titratable acid, vitamin C, weight loss rate, stem cracking, pulp browning and mildew of sugarcane were determined in 3 storage ways, including room temperature, room temperature+ 0.02 mm plastic film and room temperature+ 0.10 mm plastic film. The results showed that the hardness, soluble solids, Vc and weight loss of sugarcane treated with room temperature+ 0.02 mm plastic film and 0.10 mm plastic film decreased slowly, titratable acid content increased slowly and the storage quality was relatively good in the first 6 weeks, then, the quality of sugarcane treated with these two ways declined rapidly; during the whole storage period, the pulp browning rate of the two treatments with plastic film was slow; and the cracking rate of the three treatments was 12.86%, 5.71% and 4.29%, respectively, at 12 weeks’ storage, but no mildew and bud germination were found. In conclusion, plastic film storage can delay the aging process of sugarcane at lower room temperature, but the thickness of the plastic film has little effect on the comprehensive quality of storage.

Key words: fruit sugarcane, storage, weightlessness rate, mildew, comprehensive quality

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