Development of a high-speed NMR technique for sensing maturity of avocados

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2205-2209

  Chen, P ^a,b,d   McCarthy, M J ^b   Kim, S M ^b   Zion, B ^c  

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b Univ of California   (United States)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avocado; NMR; Quality evaluation; Sorting

Indexed keywords

PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0030513109     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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