Interaction of hot water treatments and controlled atmosphere storage on quality of 'Fuyu' persimmons

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-81

  Burmeister, Douglas M ^a   Ball, Sarah ^a   Green, Stephen ^a   Woolf, Allan B ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Controlled atmosphere; Hot water treatment; Persimmon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030816553     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5214(97)00029-X     Document Type: Article

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