Quality Assessment of Summer and Autumn Carrots from a Biodynamic Breeding Project and Correlations of Physico-Chemical Parameters and Features Determined by Picture Forming Methods
Ingo Hagel, Dietrich Bauer, Silvia Haneklaus, Ewald Schnug
Introduction
Assessment of product quality is of special significance in organic farming and includes the supervision of crop
quality in different growing systems (e.g., Fleck et al. 1998) and the characterisation of different cultivars. Several
methods have been developed and applied for this purpose, e.g., the physico-chemical analysis of crops,
picture forming methods (PFMs) and plant observation. So far only limited information is available on the comparability
of these methods. This contribution aims to compare the results of the analysis of physico-chemical
parameters of summer and autumn carrots with features determined by PFMs by means of correlation analysis.