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However, it takes usually five or more days to deliver boxes from the harvesting gate to the final destination. INTRODUCTION Air transportation is used to deliver flower boxes from Sri Lanka to Europe. The data also indicate the importance of maintaining a good water balance during commercial handling and transport of Anthurium. Results indicated that floral preservatives and stem-end treatments have a positive affect on keeping quality. In contrast, spadix chroma showed no significant difference with respect to controls. Spathe chroma value of flowers placed in, tap water, and was improved during vase life whereas spathe red hue was positively influenced only in flowers placed in. Non-treated control flowers showed lower FW and earlier spathe blueing than heat-treated and ultrasonic-treated flowers.

However, the differences between stem-end treatments (heat and ultrasonic) for vase life were small and nonsignificant. With a vase life of about 16 d the effects of a heat treatment (60✬, 15 s) and ultrasonic treatment (1 min) differed significantly from the non-treated control (11.9 d). Tropical ), after long-distance shipment. Balas 2 1 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Mapalana, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka 2 Institute of Fruit Growing & Horticulture, University of Natural Resources & Applied Life Sciences, Peter Jordan street 82, A-1190, Vienna, Austria Keywords: Vase life, postharvest, vase solutions, osmotic potential, brix value Abstract Flower quality parameters (FW, vase life, colour, osmotic potential, water uptake, transpiration rate and total soluble solids) were measured to examine the effects of treatments on postharvest quality of anthurium (Anthurium andraeanum L.

1 Postharvest Quality of Cut Anthurium Flowers (Anthurium andraeanum L.) after Long-Distance Shipment M.P.

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