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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (28): 81-85.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb17070011

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Bagging Affecting Apple Fruit Quality in Lhasa, Tibet

  

  • Received:2017-07-03 Revised:2017-09-28 Accepted:2017-08-17 Online:2017-10-24 Published:2017-10-24

Abstract: Five different varieties apples selected from Lhasa, Tibet Province (‘Gala’, ‘Italian Early’, ‘Hanfu’, ‘Starkrimon’and ‘Danxia’) were taken as the test materials to study the effects of bagging on Lhasa apple fruit appearance and internal quality. The results showed that compared with no bagging treatment, bagging treatment increased the apple fruit weight and fruit color index (L*, a*, b* values), but decreased the apple fruit titratable acid (except ‘Gala’), fruit firmness (except ‘Gala’) and soluble solids content significantly (P<0.05), and had no significantly effect on the fruit shape index. In general, bagging improved the appearance quality of ‘Gala’ and ‘Starkrimon’. As a whole, bagging treatment can improve appearance quality of Lhasa apple (main cultivated varieties), but its negative effects on interior quality of Lhasa apple is not to be neglected.