Carbohydrate status and transplant quality of micropropagated broccoli plantlets stored under different light environments

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 165-173

  Kubota, Chieri ^a,b   Rajapakse, Nihal C ^a   Young, Roy E ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environment control; Growth suppression; Light quality; Low temperature; Soluble sugars; Sugar composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030833216     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5214(97)00047-1     Document Type: Article

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