ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Mechanical Properties and Parameter Optimization for the "Suitable Harvest" Stage of Vegetable Sweet Potato Shoot Tips in Mechanized Harvesting.
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- Low-damage mechanised harvesting of shallots: from biomechanical interaction mechanisms to bionic and flexible design strategies.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
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Vegetable sweet potato shoot tips are harvested repeatedly for fresh markets, but harvest timing and cut length are still determined largely by experience, limiting their translation into mechanized design parameters and control thresholds. We conducted a two-factor shear-mechanics experiment using three cultivars ('Fu 23', 'Fu 18', and 'HD-V4') and five shoot-tip length levels (10-30 cm), while also measuring stem diameter and moisture content. Because shear tests were performed on short stem segments sampled from a fixed internodal position relative to the apex, the length factor is interpreted mainly as a field-operable harvest criterion and only secondarily as a variable partly associated with tissue position. Moisture content was uniformly high and did not differ among cultivars (
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