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Bagging is a physical technique commonly used with many crops to both protect the fruits from diseases and pests and to alter the microenvironment in which the fruits develop and it's ripening. The influence of bagging material treatments on fruit quality was estimated in the experiment conducted from 2009 to 2010, a private orchard, Egypt. Four treatments of bagging material included control (without bagging, T1), bagging bunches with newspaper, plastic and paper kraft (T2, T3 and T4) 30 days after of pollination (T4 and T5). All the bagging treatments improved fruit quality with respect to fruit set, bunch weight, fresh fruit weight, fruit flesh weight, tannin, fruit firmness, total and reducing sugars contents except fruit dimensions as and vitamin C compared to the control treatment. Among the various bagging treatments, T3 (plastic) followed T4 (paper kraft) were earlier ripening fruit 15 days before harvested bedsides produced the best results in most physical and chemical properties under study condition. Generally bagging with plastic as pre-harvest application treatment could be recommended to improve fruit set, bunch yield and fruit quality of "Sewey" fruit under the current study conditions.
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