Post-harvest life of cut gladiolus cv. nova lux influenced by packaging material and environmental conditions

An investigation was carried out during the year 2017 to study the post-harvest life of gladiolus spikes by using different packaging materials (blotting paper, brown paper, butter paper, cellophane paper and news paper) in various environmental condition (16ºC and 22 ± 2ºC). All the post-harvest studies were conducted at Post-harvest Laboratory, Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. Experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with three replications.
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Post-harvest life of cut gladiolus cv. nova lux influenced by packaging material and environmental conditions Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2018) 7(8): 870-874 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 08 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com Original Research Article https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.708.098 Post-harvest Life of Cut Gladiolus cv. Nova Lux Influenced by Packaging Material and Environmental Conditions Priyanka Kumawat, Anjana Sisodia*, Anil K. Singh, Minakshi Padhi and Kalyan Barman Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, U.P., India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT An investigation was carried out during the year 2017 to study the post-harvest life of gladiolus spikes by using different packaging materials (blotting paper, brown paper,Keywords butter paper, cellophane paper and news paper) in various environmental condition (16ºC and 22 ± 2ºC). All the post-harvest studies were conducted at Post-harvest Laboratory,Gladiolus, Department of Horticulture, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University,Packaging Varanasi, U.P. Experiment was laid out in Completely Randomized Design with threematerials, replications. Harvested gladiolus spikes were packed with different packaging materialsTemperature, Post-harvest life and kept in ambient temperature condition and cool chamber condition. The results revealed that spikes stored in cool chamber condition were found significantly higher thanArticle Info the ambient condition. Slow opening of florets, diameter of florets and percentage of opened florets were found maximum in cool chamber condition (16ºC). While, maximumAccepted: diameter of first floret and length of third and fifth floret were observed with the spike06 July 2018Available Online: packed in brown paper. Different packaging materials were failed to give any significant10 August 2018 effect on days to opening of floret, percentage of opened florets, diameter of fifth floret and length of first floret. Maximum weight and shelf life of spikes were recorded with spikes stored in cellophane paper.Introduction Transportation of gladiolus spikes to the consumer without deteriorating quality ofGladiolus is an important commercially higher spikes is the most necessary and challengingvalue flower crop. It is very popular as cut task for the sellers. For this, the post-harvestflower in domestic as well as international life of the spikes needs to prolong. Post-market (Singh and Sisodia, 2017). It is also harvest life depends on genetic as well asknown as sword lily, has gained much environmental factors. Various environmentalimportance as a cut flower and valued for its factors viz., temperature condition, humiditymajestic spikes. The flower contains etc. can influence the flower quality as well asattractive, elegant and delicate florets of post-harvest life of cut spikes of gladiolus.different attractive colours and shapes. Similarly, different packaging materials viz., 870 Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2018) 7(8): 870-874blotting paper, brown paper, butter paper, condition (16ºC). Diameter of first, third andcellophane paper and news paper can also fifth floret and percentage of opened floretsaffect the quality of cut gladiolus spikes. were found maximum in cool chamberDuring senescence leakage of the cell condition (16ºC), whereas, length of fifthconstituents due to loss of structural integrity floret was observed highest at ambientof the cell membrane results in the death of condition compared to cool chamberflowers (Bhattacharjee, 1994). Hence, an condition. Gladiolus spike stored at cooleffort was made to known the effect of chamber condition (16ºC) and ambientpackaging materials and ...