Vicia faba L is considered the fourth most important leguminous crop in the world, as it occupies an important place among food security crops in a number of countries. Calcium salts are used to increase the hardness of fruits and to treat many physiological disorders in fruits and resistance to damage. The present study aims to improve the storage ability of beans after treating them before storage with pomegranate peel extract and calcium. After harvesting the crop of broad beans grown in one of the orchards in Al-Hartha region, Basrah, Iraq for the agricultural season 2023-2024, the pods were separated to obtain the seeds by removing the pod, then the seeds were divided into three parts. The first was treated by dipping seeds in pomegranate peel extract at a concentration of 3 ml l‾¹ for 5 minutes. The second part of the seeds was dipped in calcium at a concentration of 2 ml l‾¹ for 5 minutes. The last part was dipped in distilled water only for 5 minutes. After drying, seeds were packed in perforated polyethylene bags (8 holes of 5 mm diameter) with an amount of 1 kg per bag and stored at a temperature of 4°C for two weeks. The mean differences were compared using the least significant difference (L.S.D) test at the probability level of 0.05. The experiment was carried out as a factorial experiment using a Complete Randomized Design (CRD) with 3 replicates. The results showed that 2 ml l‾¹ calcium treatment was the best in reducing the weight loss of seeds and recording the highest percentage of total soluble solids and protein, while the treatment of pomegranate peel extract was superior to the rest of the treatments recorded the highest vitamin C. The results also showed that stored seeds treated by the two mentioned treatments did not record any significant decay after two weeks of storage compared to the control treatment. The weight loss of seeds, the percentage of decay, and the total soluble solids increased, while the protein percentage and vitamin C decreased with increasing storage period. The treatment of pomegranate peel extract was superior to the rest treatments in recording the highest vitamin C and the stored seeds dipped in pomegranate peel extract and calcium solution did not record any significant decay after two weeks of storage compared to the control treatment.
Author (s) Details
Dhia Ahmed Taain
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Design, College of Agriculture,
University of Basrah, Iraq.
Noor Abdel-Zahra
Jaber
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Design, College of Agriculture,
University of Basrah, Iraq.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/crpas/v4/2726
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