Fruit variability and relationships between color at harvest and quality during storage of Uapaca kirkiana (Muell. Arg.) fruit from natural woodlands

HortScience

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 352-356

  Kadzere, Irene ^a,d   Watkins, Chris B ^a   Merwin, Ian A ^a   Akinnifesi, Festus K ^b   Saka, John D K ^c   Mhango, Jarret ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d Ministry of Agriculture Zimbabwe   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Color; Indigenous fruit; Malawi; Soluble solids concentrations; Wild loquat

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; HARVESTING; PULP;

DOMESTICATION; GERMPLASM SELECTION; MATURATION PERIOD; SOLUBLE SOLIDS CONCENTRATIONS; WILD LOQUAT;

FRUITS;

DEGRADATION; FRUITS; HARVESTING; MALAWI; PROPERTIES; RIPENING; SHELF LIFE; UAPACA;

ERIOBOTRYA JAPONICA; UAPACA KIRKIANA;

EID: 33645104619     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.41.2.352     Document Type: Article

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