Ripening of ethylene-pretreated bananas is retarded using modified atmosphere and vacuum packaging

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 726-731

  Pesis, Edna ^a   Arie, Rosa Ben ^a   Feygenberg, Oleg ^a   Villamizar, Fanny ^a,b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Acetaldehyde; Banana clusters; Ethanol; Ethylene absorbents; Polyethylene bags; Vacuum storage

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; ETHANOL; ETHYLENE; PACKAGING; POLYETHYLENES; STORAGE (MATERIALS); VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BANANAS; ETHYLENE ABSORBENTS (EA); MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGING (MAP);

FRUITS;

ATMOSPHERE; ETHANOL; ETHYLENE; FRUITS; PACKAGING; POLYETHYLENE; RIPENING; SHELF LIFE; VOC;

EID: 19944391915     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.3.726     Document Type: Article

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