Prediction of harvest maturity in Asian and European pear cultivars using different statistical methods

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Zeynab Shafaei-Cherush ¹
• Kazem Arzani ²
• Nima Ahmadi ³
• Mahdi Ayyari ⁴
• Hamid Abdollahi ⁵

¹ Ph.D. Student, Department of Horticultural Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

² Professor, Department of Horticultural Science, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, IRAN

³ Associate Professor, Department of Horticultural Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

⁴ Assistant Professor, Department of Horticultural Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

⁵ Associate Professor, Temperate Fruits Research Center, Horticultural Science Research Institute (HSRI), Karaj, Iran.

Keywords

• harvest index
• dry matter
• pigment
• Multiple Factor Analysis
• Partial Least Squares Path Modeling