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. 2016 Apr 25;21(5):398. doi: 10.3390/molecules21050398

Table 1.

Organic acid contents of cherimoya fruit at nine stages of development, collected during 42 weeks. Results are expressed as the mean ± standard error (SE) of four separate extractions and determinations.

Sample Point Weeks after Blooming (WAB) Phenological Stage 1 Fruit Weight (g) Organic Acids (mg/g Fresh Weight)
Tartaric Malic Ascorbic Citric Succinic
S1 3 71 1.1 ± 0.1 *,h 1.12 ± 0.01 b 2.29 ± 0.17 a,b 0.14 ± 0.01 b 7.05 ± 1.25 a 2.97 ± 0.69 a
S2 8 72 3.4 ± 0.7 h 1.34 ± 0.17 a 1.84 ± 0.43 b,c 0.18 ± 0.04 a 5.37 ± 1.09 b 0.62 ± 0.12 c
S3 12 73 32.6 ± 4.0 g 0.57 ± 0.06 c,d 1.58 ± 0.15 c,d 0.03 ± 0.01 c 1.51 ± 0.31 c 1.75 ± 0.29 b
S4 17 74 70.5 ± 14.6 f 0.40 ± 0.05 d,e 1.62 ± 0.12 c,d 0.03 ± 0.01 c 0.97 ± 0.39 c,d 0.62 ± 0.19 c
S5 21 75 123.0 ± 14.4 e 0.41 ± 0.03 c,d,e 1.83 ± 0.07 b,c 0.03 ± 0.00 c 0.25 ± 0.04 d 0.61 ± 0.14 c
S6 26 76 186.8 ± 10.3 d 0.61 ± 0.8 c 2.78 ± 0.27 a 0.05 ± 0.01 c 0.29 ± 0.03 c,d 0.85 ± 0.06 c
S7 30 77 231.1 ± 15.7 c 0.39 ± 0.7 d,e 1.85 ± 0.17 b,c 0.04 ± 0.01 c 0.23 ± 0.02 d 0.66 ± 0.03 c
S8 34 78 328.5 ± 49.9 b 0.25 ± 0.06 e 1.20 ± 0.10 d 0.04 ± 0.00 c 0.20 ± 0.05 c,d 0.55 ± 0.06 c
S9 42 79 475.0 ± 74.4 a,b 0.51 ± 0.15 c,d 1.89 ± 0.11 b,c 0.04 ± 0.00 c 0.20 ± 0.07 d 0.46 ± 0.05 c

1 According to Cautín and Agustí [25], using the BBCH-scale. * In the same column, different letters indicated differences among development stages at p ≤ 0.05 by LSD test.