Firmness, respiration, and weight loss of 'Bing', 'Lapins' and 'Sweetheart' cherries in relation to fruit maturity and susceptibility to surface pitting

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1066-1069

  Toivonen, Peter M A ^a   Kappel, Frank ^a   Stan, Sabina ^a   McKenzie, Darrell Lee ^a   Hocking, Rod ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Firmness; Predictive modeling; Prunus avium; Respiration; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PITTING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

FIRMNESS; FRUIT SURFACE PITTING; WEIGHT LOSS;

HARVESTING;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS AVIUM;

EID: 3142708067     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.5.1066     Document Type: Article

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