Ripening behaviour and responses to propylene in four cultivars of Japanese type plums

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-34

  Abdi, N ^a   Holford, P ^a   McGlasson, W B ^a   Mizrahi, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ethylene; Propylene; Prunus spp; Suppressed climacteric; Tree effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030804067     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5214(97)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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