Bruising on blush and non-blush sides in apple-to-apple impacts

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1655-1663

  Studman, C J ^a   Brown, G K ^b,c   Timm, E J ^b,d   Schulte, N L ^d   Vreede, M J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ASAE ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage avoidance; Drop height; Energy; Fruit; McIntosh; Quality

Indexed keywords

IMPACT TESTING; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

APPLE TO APPLE IMPACTS; BRUISING; DAMAGE AVOIDANCE; DROP HEIGHT; MCINTOSH APPLES;

FRUITS;

EID: 0031280156     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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