Variability in ‘Capri’ everbearing strawberry quality during a harvest season

Šimkova, Kristyna (author), Veberič, Robert (author), Hudina, Metka (author), Grohar, Mariana Cecilia (author), Burin, Tea (author), Smrke, Tina (author), Pelacci, Massimiliano (author), Jakopič, Jerneja (author)

Strawberries are appreciated by consumers for their characteristic taste and health benefits, which enhance their demand throughout the year. Everbearing strawberries can produce fruits for a longer period and could thus meet this demand, but the fruit quality depends on environmental factors and the cultivar. This study focused on the effect of environmental conditions on the physical attributes and the composition of everbearing Capri cultivar fruit harvested from the end of June to the end of October. A positive correlation was observed between temperature and organic acid content (r = 0.87), and a positive correlation was observed between sunshine duration, anthocyanin (r = 0.87) and phenolic compound contents (r = 0.89). Additionally, the composition of sugars was affected by the environmental conditions. While strawberries harvested towards the end of October, when lower temperatures predominated, were larger in size and had a higher sugar/acid ratio, fruit harvested in the middle of August, when there were longer periods of sunshine, had higher anthocyanin and phenolic compound contents. In conclusion, strawberries with higher sugar/acid ratios are obtained when temperatures are lower, while strawberries exposed to longer periods of sunshine are richer in health-promoting compounds.

• Language: English
• Keywords: strawberry, fruit quality, harvest time, temperature, sunshine duration
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 16 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 6, art. 1349
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-144912
• UDC: 634
• ISSN on article: 2304-8158
• DOI: 10.3390/foods12061349
• COBISS.SI-ID: 146157059
• Publication date in RUL: 22.03.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Foods
• Shortened title: Foods
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2304-8158
• COBISS.SI-ID: 512252472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: jagoda, kakovost pridelka, čas spravila, temperatura, trajanje sončnega obsevanja