Elevated sunlight promotes ripening-associated pigment changes in apple fruit

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 183-189

  Solovchenko, Alexei E ^a   Avertcheva, Olga V ^a   Merzlyak, Mark N ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Apples; Carotenoids; Chlorophylls; Fruit; Light; Ripening; Xanthophyll esters

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33646067408     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2006.01.013     Document Type: Article

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