Title:	Fruit physiochemical characteristics of acerola (Malpighia emarginata) clones in commercial orchards.
Authors:	MOURA, C. F. H. ALVES, R. E. MOSCA, J. L. PAIVA, J. R. de OLIVEIRA, J. J. G.
Affiliation:	CARLOS FARLEY HERBSTER MOURA, CNPAT; RICARDO ELESBAO ALVES, CNPAT; JOSE LUIZ MOSCA, CNPAT; JOAO RODRIGUES DE PAIVA, CNPAT; JOHN JACKIE GONÇALVES OLIVEIRA.
Date Issued:	1997
Citation:	In: INTERAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TROPICAL HORTICULTURE, 41., 1997, Guatemala. Proceedings […] Guatemala: ISTH, 1997. p. 194-198.
Pages:	p. 194-198
Description:	The selection was carried out within the orchard of FRUCESA, Ceará State, Brazil. The mass selection allowed the choosing of 100 desirable plants. Preliminary fruit analysis of 55 plants was performed with the aim of evaluating their quality potential. A 0.5 kg sample of fruits from all selected plants fruiting from February to March 1996 was taken and frozen. The following characteristics were evaluated: total soluble solids (SS), total titratable acidity (TA), pH and vitamin C. Some of the plants evaluated were considered promising from the quality point of view, because even during the rainy season they had vitamin C greater than 1500 mg/100 g and SS higher than 8.0 °Brix. Moreover, there was high variability in quality encountered in our orchards, as well as evidence of the efficiency of the methodology employed in the selection experiment.
Thesagro:	Acerola
Type of Material:	Artigo em anais e proceedings
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Artigo em anais de congresso (CNPAT)