ANBAR JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Abstract

An experiment was carried out in the cold storage unit, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, University of Baghdad from 1/7/2002 through out 15/1/2003.
This investigation aimed to study the effect of Dill, Rosemary, sage, Extracts with three concentration (2, 4, 8 gl H2O) for each extract beside greap water compound (1.5, 3.0, 6.0 ml/ H2O), as well as the control treatment dipping was done for 10 and 20 min, and the treated tubers stored in a cold store at 4 ± 2ºC and relative humidity of 85 ± 5ºC from 15/7/2002 until 31/12/2002, tubers then reconditioned until 15/1/2003.
Results indicated that sprouting percentage was significantly decreased at the first stages of storage, and after reconditionning dill extract raised to 71.45%, while control treartment decreased to 55.15%.
The treatments significantly decreased weight loss in the first stages but greap water comp. and control were the best treatment under reconditionning.