Oxidative stress and antioxidant systems in tomato fruits stored under normal and hypoxic conditions

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-150

  Mondal, Koushik ^a   Sharma, Neeru S ^a   Malhotra, Sarla P ^a   Dhawan, Kamal ^a   Singh, R ^a  

^a CCS HARYANA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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