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Crop: Rice Crop: Sorghum

Scientific Name: Oryza sativa
Description:
a. Mature: grains are straw colored; hulls and
glumes are fully developed
b. Immature: very slender and chalky kernels;
paddy grains
Scientific Name: Sorghum bicolor
Description:
a. Mature: heads/panicles have emerged; black
layer could be observed on the grains
b. Immature: fresh green color in appearance

Crop: Corn Crop: Sugarcane

Scientific Name: Zea mays
Description:
a. Mature: brown silks; dry ear tip; soft kernels
produce a milky juice (when punctured);
tough and doughly (over-mature)
b. Immature: ear will not be completely filled
to the tip; kernels produce a clear, watery
liquid (when punctured)
Scientific Name: Saccharum officinarum
Description:
a. Mature: yellow and drying up of leaves;
structure become weak; sucrose starts to
decompose (too mature); metallic sound when
tapped; sugar crystal glistening when cut
b. Immature: 4 to 12 feet or more ill height
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Crop: Coffea
Scientific Name: Coffea sp.
Description:
a. Mature: bright, deep red
b. Immature: cherries are green which change
into yellow
Crop: Eggplant/Talong
Scientific Name: Solanum melongena
Description:
a. Mature: skin has to be shiny and glossy; if
fingers makes an impression that quickly
fades (through pressing); seeds should be
yellow (brown-overripe)
b. Immature: dull; flesh is hard with no give
(through pressing)
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Crop: Okra
Scientific Name: Abelmoschus esculentus
Description:
a. Mature: dull green; tough and difficult to cut
the stem above the cap (too mature)
b. Immature: bright green and firm but tender;
2 to 3 inches long
Crop: Mungbean
Scientific Name: Vigna radiata
Description:
a. Mature: fully developed grains; seed coats
and kernels are good in color
b. Immature: smaller in size than the mature
grains, shrivelled and off colour
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Crop: Onion
Scientific Name: Allium cepa
Description:
a. Mature: new leaves appear and a long, stout,
hollow stem expands topped by a bract
protecting a developing inflorescence
b. Immature: commonly green and red
Crop: Cotton
Scientific Name: Gossypium hirsutum
Description:
a. Mature: exposed cotton fibers
b. Immature: cotton boll forming in the base of
the bud where the flower was; pointed oval
shape (app. 8-12mm in length)
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Crop: Tomato
Scientific Name: Solanum lycopersicum
Description:
a. Mature: surface is bright and waxy; external
colour of straw ground colour; fully developed
and well filled out; gives a feeling of
springiness and pliability
b. Immature: dull green in colour; angular; dry
and leathery when cut and will show the
formation of little jelly like substance around
the seeds in the seed cavities. The seeds are
also poorly developed.
Crop: Papaya
Scientific Name: Carica papaya
Description:
a. Mature: tender, creamy, orange-fleshed
(some exterior part may be green)
b. Immature: crisp white flesh
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Crop: Banana
Scientific Name: Musa sp.
Description:
a. Mature: yellow with brown spots; soft
b. Immature: appear as green and waxy; firm

Sugarcane Internode Section Total Soluble Solids (TSS), °Brix

Mature 20
Immature 8

Implications of the measured value:

According to an article, Brix percentage is a measure of the sucrose or sugar content where
one degree Brix is equal to one gram of sucrose in 100 grams of solution.
Typically, Brix is determined by refractive index. When dissolved solids such as sugar
increase, the refractive index increases. This allows us to use refractometers to measure a variety
of different compounds. Refractometers work particularly well on sugarcane since virtually all of
the dissolved solids in the juice are sucrose. Two different types of sugarcane were used which can
vary greatly in their sucrose levels; whereas mature sugarcane has 20% Brix while immature is
only 8%. Based on the data gathered, it can be concluded that the mature sugarcane is considered
to produce the highest quality of cane sugar compared to the immature one.
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Crop: Avocado
Scientific Name: Persea americana
Description: pear-shaped, often more or less necked,
oval, or nearly round, 3-13in long & 6in wide
a. Mature: (skin) redish-purple, dark purple;
speckled with tiny yellow dots; smooth; glossy;
pliable; (seed) oblate, round, conical or ovoid,
enclosed in two brown, thin, papery seedcoats
b. Immature: yellow-green, deep-green, pebbled,
dull, leathery, brittle (skin)
Crop: Squash
Scientific Name: Cucurbita sp.
Description: smooth and slightly ribbed skin
a. Mature: orange
b. Immature: green or white in color
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Crop: Caimito
Scientific Name: Chrysophyllum cainito
Description:
a. Mature: round, oblate, ellipsoid or somewhat
pear-shaped; 2 to 4 in (5-10 cm) in diameter;
purple and green; slightly wrinkled and soft
b. Immature: gummy latex found in the flesh
Crop: Ampalaya
Scientific Name: Momordica charantia .
Description:
a. Mature: ribbed and wrinkled; green, fleshy,
oblong, cylindrical, pointed at both ends; seeds
are oblong and corrugated on the margins
b. Immature: smaller in appearance compared to
the mature; edible also
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Crop: Sitao Crop: Carnation

Scientific Name: Vigna unguiculata Scientific Name: Dianthus caryophyllus
Description: Description:
a. Mature: long and woody; crisp; easily cut; a. Mature: dark red; flower wilts; has five petals
dark green per flower; petals have clawed/serrated look
b. Immature: difficult to cut; light green b. Immature: white or light red; develops foliage
appearance with 8-24in (depends on variety)

Crop: Kenaf Crop: Sunflower

Scientific Name: Hibiscus cannabinus
Description: 2-6mm long and slender
a. Mature: dried and woody
b. Immature: (outer bark) long soft bast fibers;
(beneath the bark) thick cylinder of short
woody fibers surrounds a narrow central core of
soft pith; green
Scientific Name: Helianthus sp.
Description:
a. Mature: grows buds that bloom; open petals
b. Immature: seedlings grow into strong plants;
sprouted sunflower with oval-shaped/heart-
shaped leaves
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Crop: Wheat
Scientific Name: Triticum aestivum
Description:
a. Mature: straw color; very hard kernels (as it
cannot be crushed between fingernails)
b. Immature: kernels per head are determined;
chalky kernels
Crop: Cassava
Scientific Name: Manihot esculenta
Description:
a. Mature: 15 to 100 cm in length; 05-2.0 kg;
circular in cross-section
a. Immature: skin can easily be removed

Crop: Gabi
Scientific Name: Colocasia esculenta
Description:
b. Mature: 15 to 100 cm in length; 05-2.0 kg;
circular in cross-section; usually brown with
lateral buds above leaf scars giving rise to new
cormels, suckers, or stolons
c. Immature: skin can easily be removed