2013
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056354
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The Impact of Organic Farming on Quality of Tomatoes Is Associated to Increased Oxidative Stress during Fruit Development

Abstract: This study was conducted with the objective of testing the hypothesis that tomato fruits from organic farming accumulate more nutritional compounds, such as phenolics and vitamin C as a consequence of the stressing conditions associated with farming system. Growth was reduced in fruits from organic farming while titratable acidity, the soluble solids content and the concentrations in vitamin C were respectively +29%, +57% and +55% higher at the stage of commercial maturity. At that time, the total phenolic con… Show more

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“…For instance, the concentration of yellow flavonoids was 70% higher in organic fruits when compared to fruits from conventional growing system, but only at the harvesting stage, which is consistent with similar observations previously [57]. The concentration in anthocyanins was lower in the fruits from organic farming at all three stages of fruit development [56]. These discrepancies indicate that organic farming had the effect of modifying the levels of transcripts or the activities of enzymes controlling intermediary steps of the biosynthetic pathway of phenolic compounds.…”
Section: Lycopene Contentsupporting
confidence: 90%
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“…For instance, the concentration of yellow flavonoids was 70% higher in organic fruits when compared to fruits from conventional growing system, but only at the harvesting stage, which is consistent with similar observations previously [57]. The concentration in anthocyanins was lower in the fruits from organic farming at all three stages of fruit development [56]. These discrepancies indicate that organic farming had the effect of modifying the levels of transcripts or the activities of enzymes controlling intermediary steps of the biosynthetic pathway of phenolic compounds.…”
Section: Lycopene Contentsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…The more stress plants suffer, the more polyphenols they produce,' these authors point out [55]. Tomato fruits from organic farming experienced stressing conditions that resulted in oxidative stress and the accumulation of higher concentrations of soluble solids as sugars and other compounds contributing to fruit nutritional quality such as vitamin C and phenolic compounds [56].…”
Section: Lycopene Contentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It may be possible that the reduction in BER incidence by OMF under salinity in the present study was caused by an enhanced antioxidant system. Tomato fruits from organic farming are higher in superoxide dismutase activity (Oliveira et al, 2013), and the significant increase in the ascorbic acid contents of mature fruit in the winter cropping of Exp. 1 with OMF could show a correlation with this.…”
Section: Fw)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Few data are available about the influence of the growing conditions (region, growing system) and the fertility management strategy on the quality attributes of organic greenhouse crops (Ceglie et al 2015). A survey by Oliveira et al (2013) suggests that tomatoes from organic farming systems grown under conditions of stress show higher concentrations of sugars and secondary metabolites such as vitamin C and phenolic compounds that contribute to the nutritional quality of organic production. This has been also confirmed for organic strawberries produced in greenhouse conditions (Ceglie et al 2014).…”
Section: Fertilizer Requirements Of Greenhouse Crops and The Implicatmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are only few data available on the quality of organically produced greenhouse crops (e.g. Oliveira et al 2013;Ceglie et al 2015) and there is no systematic evaluation of the differences in quality parameters for different regions of Europe and their main driving factors (e.g. soil conditions, climatic conditions, chosen cultivars, fertility management).…”
Section: 6mentioning
confidence: 99%