Pea Tenderometers and their Calibration

LWT

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 455-459

  Visscher, Gert J W ^a   Lovink, Eef ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Broad beans, standardization; Peas; Tenderometer; Traceability

Indexed keywords

GOES; PISUM SATIVUM; VICIA FABA;

EID: 0347176253     PISSN: 00236438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fstl.1999.0579     Document Type: Article

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