Seasonal Susceptibility of Tarocco Oranges to Chilling Injury As Affected by Hot Water and Thiabendazole Postharvest Dip Treatments

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1177-1180

  Schirra, Mario ^a   D'hallewin, Guy ^a   Cabras, Paolo ^b   Angioni, Alberto ^b   Garau, Vincenzo Luigi ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Citrus; Harvest date; Heat treatments; Storage; Thiabendazole

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; CITRUS SINENSIS;

EID: 0001417308     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf970776s     Document Type: Article

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