Use of maturity indices for predicting poststorage firmness of 'Fuji' apples

HortScience

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 909-910

  Blankenship, Sylvia M ^a   Parker, Michael ^a   Unrath, C Richard ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Harvest maturity; Malus domestica; Postharvest physiology; Storage

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 0030858884     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.32.5.909     Document Type: Article

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