Journal of Horticulture
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Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food Science and Technology (NIFSAT), University of Agriculture Faisalabad (38040), Pakistan

Publications

• Review Article   
  Pre-harvest Technology and Dynamics of Loquat Fruit Ripening
  Author(s): Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah*, Abdul Waheedb and Mudassar Anwar Buttc
  
  Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) fruit is famous for its taste and rich source of phenolics, flavonoids, sugars, carotenoids and different acid contents. It is non-climacteric fruit grown under sub-tropical and tropical conditions. There are two distinct cultivars including white and yellow-flesh with variable fruit biochemical composition and growth pattern. Different preharvest factors like soil, climate, rootstock, fruit bagging, pruning, water application, nutritional management and mulching have distinct effect on fruit quality. There is series of physical, biochemical and physiological changes in fruit ripening. Sugar accumulation, phenolic and carotenoid biosynthesis, organic acid metabolism and different volatile compounds are main indicators of fruit harvest maturity. Ethylene biosynthesis and respiration patterns also contribute the developme.. View More»
  

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