Prestorage hot water treatments inhibit postharvest anthocyanin synthesis and retain overall quality of white asparagus spears

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-168

  Siomos, Anastasios S ^a   Gerasopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Tsouvaltzis, Pavlos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Appearance; Asparagus officinalis L.; Color; Heat damage; Heat treatment

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 27644558725     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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