Quality improvement of fresh-cut tomato under active and passive modified atmosphere packaging

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 628, Issue , 2003, Pages 351-356

  Aguayo, E ^a   Escalona, V H ^a   Artes F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Ethylene; Microbial counts; Quality attributes; Slice; Wedge

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744580550     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2003.628.42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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