The effect of light supplementation on the changes in outer and inner fruit quality of different Selenicereus spp. cultivars
Luíz Guilherme Malaquias da Silva, Carlos Alexandre Rocha da Costa, Giovanni Aleixo Batista, Estela Corrêa de Azevedo, Fabrício Teixeira de Lima Gomes, Laryssa Ribeiro Calcagnoto, Gabriel Luis Castiglioni, Marcelo Ângelo Cirillo, Danilo José Machado de Abreu, Flávia Matias Oliveira da Silva, Katiúcia Alves Amorim, Leila Aparecida Salles Pio, Eduardo Valério de Barros Vilas Boas, Elisângela Elena Nunes Carvalho · 2026
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Silva and colleagues tested in 2026 whether extra light at flowering improves pitaya fruit quality in Brazil. Pitaya, or dragon fruit, comes from cactus plants in the Selenicereus group and needs long days to flower well. The team gave three cultivars four extra hours of LED light each night during flowering.
Extra light raised fruit mass by about a fifth and made peel colour brighter and stronger. Pulp colour shifted markedly, and fructose, a fruit sugar, rose by nearly a third across the cultivars. Vitamin C also rose, though by a smaller margin. One cultivar, Boreal Red, gained extra sucrose and glucose on top of the shared gains. The authors conclude that night lighting during flowering can lift both eating quality and health-linked compounds.
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| CREATOR | Luíz Guilherme Malaquias da Silva, Carlos Alexandre Rocha da Costa, Giovanni Aleixo Batista, Estela Corrêa de Azevedo, Fabrício Teixeira de Lima Gomes, Laryssa Ribeiro Calcagnoto, Gabriel Luis Castiglioni, Marcelo Ângelo Cirillo, Danilo José Machado de Abreu, Flávia Matias Oliveira da Silva, Katiúcia Alves Amorim, Leila Aparecida Salles Pio, Eduardo Valério de Barros Vilas Boas, Elisângela Elena Nunes Carvalho |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |