TOMATO TRANSPLANT MORPHOLOGY AFFECTED BY HANDLING AND STORAGE Academic Article

abstract

• Shoot and root growth changes in response to handling and storage time in `Sunny' tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) transplants were investigated. Transplants, 45 days old, were stored either in trays (nonpulled) or packed in boxes (pulled) for 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 days at 5 and 15C. Also, 35-day-old nonpulled and pulled transplants were kept in darkness at 20/28C for 0, 1, 2, or 3 days. At SC, pulled transplants had longer and heavier stems, a higher shoot: root ratio, higher ethylene evolution, and lower root dry weight than nonpulled transplants. At 15C, pulled transplants had more shoot growth than nonpulled transplants. Nonpulled, initially 35-day-old transplants had heavier shoots and roots and higher (7.0 tha-1) yields of extra-large fruit than pulled transplants (4.1 tha-1), but there were no differences in the total yields of marketable fruits.

authors

• Leskovar, Daniel

published proceedings

• HORTSCIENCE

author list (cited authors)

• LESKOVAR, D. I., & CANTLIFFE, D. J.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• LESKOVAR, DI||CANTLIFFE, DJ

publication date

• November 1991

publisher

• American Society For Horticultural Science  Publisher

published in

• Hortscience  Journal

keywords

• Ethylene
• Fruit Size
• Lycopersicon-esculentum
• Root Growth
• Shoot Growth
• Yield

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.21273/HORTSCI.26.11.1377

start page

• 1377

end page

• 1379

volume

• 26

issue

• 11

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.26.11.1377