Hot dips and high-temperature conditioning to improve shelf quality of late-crop cactus pear fruit

Tropical Science

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 159-165

  Schirra, M ^a   Barbera, G ^b   D'Aquino, S ^a   La Mantia, T ^b   McDonald, R E ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c U S HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

chilling injury; decay; ethanol; ethylene; heat treatment; Opuntia ficus indica; quality; respiration; storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029850448     PISSN: 00413291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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