Factors affecting apple fruit firmness - A review

Journal of the American Pomological Society

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 8-27

  DeEll, Jennifer R ^a   Khanizadeh, Shahrokh ^a   Saad, Fadia ^a   Ferree, David C ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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