Pretreatments at 38 °C of 'Hass' avocado confer thermotolerance to 50 °C hot water treatments

HortScience

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 705-708

  Woolf, Allan B ^a   Lay Yee, Michael ^a  

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

Author keywords

Disinfestation; Fruit ripening; Heat shock proteins; Persea americana; Postharvest physiology; Shelf life

Indexed keywords

PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0030882477     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.32.4.705     Document Type: Article

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