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Effects of bagging on the microenvironment, yield and quality of overwintering tomato

WANG Lei1,2; XU Kun1; BEI Feng3; GAO Fang-sheng4   

  1. 1College of Horticulture Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, Shandong, China;2Dezhou Academy of Agricultural Science, Dezhou 253015, Shandong, China;3Taian Entrance Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Taian 271000, Shandong, China;4Department of Agronomy, Dezhou University, Dezhou 253015, Shandong, China
  • Received:2006-04-14 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2007-04-05 Published:2007-04-05

Abstract: Taking overwintering tomato variety “L402” as test material, this paper studied the effects of bagging with different texture bags on its fruit enlarging and quality, and the microenvironment within the bags. The results showed that bagging could change the microenvironment of fruit development, promote fruit maturing in advance, and improve fruit mass and quality. The light intensity and humidity in parchment bag were at the intermediate of those in plastic and no-spinning cloth bags, and the temperature was the highest among all treatments , except that it was lower than that in plastic bag at forenoon. The fruit enlarging rate in parchment bag was also the highest, and the single fruit mass increased by 15.34%, compared with the control. However, the fruit soluble solid, soluble sugar, and vitamine C contents and the sugar/acid ratio in all bagging treatments were lower than those of the control, suggesting that bagging debased the nutritive quality and the tastiness of tomato fruit. Due to the fact that bagging prevented the direct contact of fruit with pesticides, the fruit chlorpyrifos and betacypermethrin contents in parchment and plastic bags were lower than the control, except that the chlorpyrifos content in no-spinning cloth bag was higher.

Key words: stable carbon isotope, karst seasonal rain forest, habitat type., water use efficiency