Development and harvest index ofcarambola fruit (averrhoa carambola l.) from colombian amazonian foothills

The carambola iAvcrrhoa carambola L.) is a plant from Tropical Asia. There exist the acids and sweets types, in which it finds a lot of varieties. The fruit represents a potential as a agro industrial production line due to the pulps physical-chemical characteristics and the multiplicity of uses bot...

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Autores:: Gonzalez, Dioned Victoria
Hernández, María Soledad
Herrera, Aníbal
Barrera, Jaime A.
Martínez, Orlando
Páez, Daniel

Tipo de recurso:: Article of journal

Fecha de publicación:: 2001

Institución:: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Repositorio:: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Idioma:: spa

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Summary:	The carambola iAvcrrhoa carambola L.) is a plant from Tropical Asia. There exist the acids and sweets types, in which it finds a lot of varieties. The fruit represents a potential as a agro industrial production line due to the pulps physical-chemical characteristics and the multiplicity of uses both fresh as processed. The present work had as objective to characterize an acid variety of carambola adapted to the Amazonian foothills conditions, through physical, chemical and physiological analyses from the setting to the commercial maturity, in function of study of fruits growth and development and to determine the appropriates parameters to indicate the harvest moment. Fruit growth has showed a single sigmoidal pattern, with three stages of growth. Size, weight, pulp percentage, pH and total soluble solids : acidity ratio increased during the development while skin percentage, flesh firmness and acidity decreased. After 74 day the color break started. The variation-behavior in the time of the physical and chemical variables was explaining with a highadjustmcnt for polynomial and exponential models, with R-square between 0,95 and 0,99. The fruit respiration intensity suggested a possible non-climacteric pattern. Total soluble solids eontent, color and firmness were adequate harvest indexes.

Development and harvest index ofcarambola fruit (averrhoa carambola l.) from colombian amazonian foothills

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