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- Title
Cold stress in the harvest period: effects on tobacco leaf quality and curing characteristics.
- Authors
Li, Yan; Ren, Ke; Hu, Mengyang; He, Xian; Gu, Kaiyuan; Hu, Binbin; Su, Jiaen; Jin, Yan; Gao, Wenyou; Yang, Daosheng; Li, Folin; Zou, Congming
- Abstract
Background: Weather change in high-altitude areas subjects mature tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) to cold stress, which damages tobacco leaf yield and quality. A brupt diurnal temperature differences (the daily temperature dropping more than 20 °C) along with rainfall in tobacco-growing areas at an altitude above 2450 m, caused cold stress to field-grown tobacco. Results: After the flue-cured tobacco suffered cold stress in the field, the surface color of tobacco leaves changed and obvious large browning areas were appeared, and the curing availability was extremely poor. Further research found the quality of fresh tobacco leaves, the content of key chemical components, and the production quality were greatly reduced by cold stress. We hypothesize that cold stress in high altitude environments destroyed the antioxidant enzyme system of mature flue-cured tobacco. Therefore, the quality of fresh tobacco leaves, the content of key chemical components, and the production quality were greatly reduced by cold stress. Conclusion: This study confirmed that cold stress in high-altitude tobacco areas was the main reason for the browning of tobacco leaves during the tobacco curing process. This adverse environment seriously damaged the quality of tobacco leaves, but can be mitigated by pay attention to the weather forecast and pick tobacco leaves in advance.
- Subjects
TOBACCO; LEAF color; TOBACCO smoke; CURING; ALTITUDES; WEATHER forecasting
- Publication
BMC Plant Biology, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1471-2229
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12870-021-02895-w