It Support for Exploring Sensory Quality of Sustainably Grown Apple Varieties
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Sustainable and environmentally-conscious fruit growing is a main concern in European agriculture. Using modern breeding technologies, several disease-resistant apple varieties have been developed in recent years. These varieties can be grown with low pesticide use, which means not only sustainable fruit growing, but lower production costs. Before these varieties are used in orchards, it is essential to explore the fruits’ quality as pertains to sensory characteristics. Sensory quality involves all attributes percieved through the human senses. Sensory testing data might be influenced by the subjective character of the assessors taking part in the evaluation. However, several techniques are known which reduce bias to an acceptable level. Information Technology (IT) is a great help in designing and performing sensory tests in accordance to the relevant ISO standards. Our research team has developed a VBA software supporting sensory profile analysis of disease-resistant apple varieties [1,2]. This software can be used to explore and monitor the sensory quality of apples, from harvest through the length of the storage period. This system may be used for online testing (LAN) or with printed score sheets, if network solutions are not provided. The results of these tests are highly valuable, because each country has a different climate. Therefore, the same variety might have a different perceived quality in different countries. The feedback of these results, together with the results of our Internet-based questionnaires [3,4], can help fruit breeders to explore in more detail the sensory quality of apples grown in different regions of Europe.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003