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100			_91516 _aLequigan, Darlyn B.
245			_aColor changes and quality maintenance on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Diamante Max) using a brick-walled evaporative cooler / _cDarlyn B. Lequigan, Emma Ruth V. Bayogan, Reynaldo G. Abad, Aileen Grace D. Delima
260			_cNovember 2019
520	3		_aPostharvest quality in tomatoes is influenced by temperature and relative humidity. Through expensive, storage in low temperature is the most effective method of maintaining quality of produce longer. Evaporative cooling is a less costly alternative option. A brick-walled evaporative cooling (BEC) system converts warm air from the ambient environment into cold air as it passes through a moistened insulation between the double-walled BEC. The effects of the storage environment in the BEC were evaluated using mature green and breaker stages of tomato cultivar Diamante Max from November 2018 to January 2019. The tomatoes were stored at ambient (27.10±0.67 ºC and 81.85±2.51% RH) and BEC (25.48±0.56ºC and 99.91±1.54%RH) conditions in. Tomatoes stored in BEC showed 10.36% lesser weight loss, lesser decay incidence, redder color, and better visual quality as compared to fruit stored under ambient conditions. BEC was able to maintain firmness and total soluble solids especially in mature green tomatoes. After 49 d of storage, 61.8% of the fruits stored in BEC were marketable compared to 23.3% in ambient conditions. When used for a year, the computed benefit over cost value of the BEC storage system was 29.11% higher than the ambient storage system. Thus, the BEC storage system can help maintain the quality of Diamante Max tomatoes during storage in the temperature and relative humidity conditions as above.
650		0	_aTomatoes _91517
650		0	_aTomato storage _91518
650		0	_aMindanao studies _9120
700			_91519 _aBayogan, Emma Ruth V.
700			_91520 _aAbad, Reynaldo G.
700			_91521 _aDelima, Aileen Grace D.
773			_tBanwa: Abstracts from ICAEM2019, The 9th International Conference on Agribusiness Economics and Management _013147 _gSupplements 1 (November 2019), 12 p. _9MSC-dav-gd362
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