Effect of different preharvest conditions on the postharvest keeping quality of greenhouse tomatoes

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 654, Issue , 2004, Pages 213-220

  Linke, M ^a   Klaring H P ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

^b Inst Veg Orn Crops G Erfurt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air flow; Air humidity; Lycopersicum esculentum; Nutrition solution; Quality; Respiration rate; Temperature; Transpiration resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644444387     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2004.654.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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