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Investigation of the Maturity Changes of Cherry Tomato Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Source :
- Applied Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 15, Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 5188, p 5188 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2020.
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Abstract
- The maturity of tomato fruit is normally characterized by external color, and it is often difficult to know when fruit have achieved commercial maturity or become over-mature. The internal structure of tomato fruit changes during development and this study investigates the utility of nondestructive measurement of tomato fruit structure as a function of maturity using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The objective of this work is to use analysis of internal tomato fruit structural measurements to characterize maturity. Intact cherry tomato fruit were harvested at six different maturity stages. At each stage of maturity, the internal structure of the fruit was measured using a series of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic resonance (MR) images. Qualitative and quantitative image analyses were performed to correlate internal fruit structure with maturity. Internal structural changes observed in the pericarp region of the tomato fruit are highly correlated with fruit maturity. MR image information combined with classical analysis techniques provides a more complete understanding of structure and physicochemical changes in tomato fruit during maturation. This study demonstrates that MRI is a useful analytical tool to characterize internal changes in agricultural produce as the produce matures. This technique can be applied to almost any agricultural produce to monitor internal physical changes due to external impact, maturity stage, variation in climate, storage time, and condition, or other factors impacting quality.
- Subjects :
- Nondestructive measurement
education
internal structure
Biology
lcsh:Technology
maturity change
040501 horticulture
lcsh:Chemistry
0404 agricultural biotechnology
Cherry tomato
magnetic resonance imaging
General Materials Science
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Instrumentation
applied_physics
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Maturity (geology)
lcsh:T
Process Chemistry and Technology
General Engineering
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
biology.organism_classification
040401 food science
lcsh:QC1-999
Computer Science Applications
Horticulture
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
lcsh:TA1-2040
Mr images
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
cherry tomato
0405 other agricultural sciences
lcsh:Physics
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 15, Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 5188, p 5188 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....395ce943693c773cddf62747832e78f7
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0308.v1