Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
APPLIED FRUIT SCIENCE, cilt.66, ss.1493-1503, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
The development of kiwifruit cultivation in the Eastern Black Sea region
of Türkiye is important as an additional income generating product.
However, climate changes observed in recent years have affected not only
fruit growth and development but also fruit quality. This study was
carried out to determine the changes in some physical and chemical
properties of the fruits of the ‘Hayward’ kiwifruit cultivar from the
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Faculty of Agriculture Research and
Experiment Orchard, Türkiye, during the pre-harvest period in the
2017–2018 sampling seasons. For this purpose, fruit samples were first
taken at the end of July, and the last sampling time continued at 1‑week
intervals until the end of November. In our study, in the pre-harvest
period in both years, all parameters changed significantly and
significant increases were observed not only in the physical properties
of the fruit, but also in the soluble solids content and dry matter
content. While fruit ripening increased, fruit firmness decreased with
the progression of the maturity stage. In this article, the
relationships between the investigated parameters are discussed in
relation to the climate data.