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Effect of Storage Temperatures on Respiration of Moringa Pods (PKM-1)

Volume : 101
Issue: Apr-jun
Pages: 193 - 196
Published: April 30, 2023
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Abstract


Information on the respiration rate of moringa is essential in designing suitable packaging and storage systems for moringa. Air tight PVC chambers of size (70 x 15cm) to hold one kg of moringa (PKM-1)were used to study the respiration rate at three temperatures namely 14, 21 and 28°C. Generally there was progressive reduction of O2 concentration and a steady increase in CO2 concentration, in all tests. The respiration rate of oxygen was 8.75 ml kg -1 hr -1 at 14oC, 12.01 ml kg -1 hr -1 at 21oC and 66.04 ml kg -1 hr -1 at 28oC. The respiration rate of carbon dioxide was 8.31 ml kg -1 hr -1 at 14oC, 12.01 ml kg -1 hr -1 at 21oC and 34.61ml kg -1 hr -1 at 28oC. There was a 1.5 fold increase in respiration as measured by the value of respiration rate of oxygen from 14 to 21oC and a four fold increase in respiration from 14 to 28oC.

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193 - 196
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Moringa pods respiration rate temperature studies
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