Quality of Cherry and Large Tomato Fruits Influenced by Varieties and Rootstocks

Authors

  • Nadia Elabed Technical Center of Protected and Geothermal Crops. Avenue Aboulkacem Chabbi Cité El Manara Gabes 6011, Tunisia
  • Asma Boukhris Department of biology, Faculty of sciences of Sfax, Sfax 3000, Tunisia
  • Hammadi Hamza Arid and Oases Cropping Laboratory, Arid Area Institute, Medenine 4119, Tunisia
  • Mohamed Chaieb Department of biology, Faculty of sciences of Sfax, Sfax 3000, Tunisia
  • Mohamed Sadok Belkadhi Technical Center of Protected and Geothermal Crops. Avenue Aboulkacem Chabbi Cité El Manara Gabes 6011, Tunisia

Keywords:

polyphenol, protein, Brix

Abstract

Currently, the main challenge is to improve crops’ performances under a wide array of suboptimal growth conditions. In tomato production, grafting is one of tools increasing fruit quality. It depends on variety and rootstock selection. In this aim different combinations of rootstock-variety of tomato were studied in order to determine the induced changes on tomato quality. Experimental design including six rootstocks-Variety combinations was conducted. Four tomato varieties (Sweetle, SanPaulo, Angel a cherry tomatoes and Pulia a large tomato) and two rootstocks (Maxifort and Integro) were combined.

Physical characteristics (shape, weight) and chemical composition (Brix, pH, polyphenol, protein) characterization of different combinations were compared. Results showed that large fruits presented the lowest firmness, polyphenol, protein and Brix values. Variety influenced significantly all the studied parameters. However rootstocks influenced significantly firmness, shape index, width, CE and polyphenols at P<0,05.

All tomatoes fruits have the same protein contents approximately 717 mg/100g FW revealing the high quality and important nutritional value of geothermal tomato of western south of Tunisia. Sweetel variety grafted on Maxifort presented the highest polyphenol content.

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2022-07-02

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Nadia Elabed, Asma Boukhris, Hammadi Hamza, Mohamed Chaieb, & Mohamed Sadok Belkadhi. (2022). Quality of Cherry and Large Tomato Fruits Influenced by Varieties and Rootstocks. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 62(2), 568–577. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/14196

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