Direct sunlight influences postharvest temperature responses and ripening of five avocado cultivars

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 370-376

  Woolf, Allan B ^a   Wexler, Asya ^b   Prusky, Dov ^b   Kobiler, Elana ^b   Lurie, Susan ^b  

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

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Fruit ripening; Heat treatment; Heat shock proteins; Pathology; Persea americana; Postharvest physiology

Indexed keywords

COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM GLOSOSPORIOIDES; GLOMERELLA CINGULATA; PERSEA AMERICANA;

EID: 0033997985     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.125.3.370     Document Type: Article

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