Storage variability among short-day onion cultivars under high temperature and high relative humidity, and its relationship with disease incidence and bulb characteristics

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 848-854

  Ko, Swee Suak ^a   Chang, Woo Nang ^a   Wang, Jaw Fen ^a   Cherng, Shin Jiun ^a   Shanmugasundaram, S ^a  

^a AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Allium cepa; Bacterial soft rot; Black mold; Fusarium basal rot; Onion storability; Postharvest diseases

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM; ALLIUM CEPA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA GLADIOLI; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM SP.; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS GLADIOLI;

EID: 0036727012     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.127.5.848     Document Type: Article

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