Low-temperature storage elicits ethylene production in nonclimacteric lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) fruit

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1228-1230

  Chan, Yee Kwan ^a   Yang, Yung Hua ^a,b   Li, Ning ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Browning; Chilling; Sapindaceae; Subtropical fruit

Indexed keywords

LITCHI CHINENSIS; SAPINDACEAE;

EID: 0032438614     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.33.7.1228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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