Using the Streif index as a final harvest window for controlled-atmosphere storage of apples

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1251-1255

  DeLong, John M ^a   Prange, Robert K ^a   Harrison, Peter A ^a   Schofield, R Andrew ^a   DeEll, Jennifer R ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fruit maturity; Malus xdomestica; Postharvest quality

Indexed keywords

MALUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 0033405046     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.7.1251     Document Type: Article

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