Optimizing flat design for forced air cooling of blueberries packaged in plastic clamshells

HortTechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 202-205

  Leyte, Jerry C ^a   Forney, Charles F ^b  

^a Nova Agri Associates Ltd   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Containers; Pallet; Precooling; Pressure cooling; Vaccinium corymbosum; Vent holes

Indexed keywords

VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM;

EID: 0032904478     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.9.2.202     Document Type: Article

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