Storage humidity and post-storage handling temperature affect bruising and other apple quality characteristics

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 553, Issue , 2001, Pages 717-720

  Prange, Robert K ^a   Delong, John M ^a   Harrison, Peter A ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Controlled atmosphere; Malus x domestica Borkh.; McIntosh; Respiration; Storage time; Titratable acidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042831777     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2001.553.180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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