Potential of VIS/NIR spectroscopy to detect and predict bitter pit in ‘Golden Smoothee’ apples

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Torres Lezcano, Estanis;
Recasens Guinjuan, Inmaculada;
Alegre Castellví, Simó;
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Potential of VIS/NIR spectroscopy to detect and predict bitter pit in ‘Golden Smoothee’ apples.
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2021, vol. 19, núm. 1, e1001.
https://doi.org/10.5424/sjar/2021191-15656.
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Aim of study: A portable VIS/NIR spectrometer and chemometric techniques were combined to identify bitter pit (BP) in Golden apples.
Area of study: Worldwide
Material and methods: Three different classification algorithms – linear discriminant analysis (LDA), quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA) and support-vector machine (SVM) –were used in two experiments. In experiment #1, VIS/NIR measurements were carried out at postharvest on apples previously classified according to 3 classes (class 1: non-BP; class 2: slight symptoms; class 3: severe symptoms). In experiment #2, VIS/NIR measurements were carried out on healthy apples collected before harvest to determinate the capacity of the classification algorithms for detecting BP prior to the appearance of symptoms.
Main results: In the experiement #1, VIS/NIR spectroscopy showed great potential in pitted apples detection with visibly symptoms (accuracies of 75–81%). The linear classifier LDA performed better than the multivariate non-linear QDA and SVM classifiers in discriminating between healthy and bitter pitted apples. In the experiment #2, the accuracy to predict bitter pit prior to the appearance of visible symptoms decreased to 44–57%.
Research highlights: The identification of apples with bitter pit through VIS/NIR spectroscopy may be due to chlorophyll degradation and/or changes in intercellular water in fruit tissue.
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