Postharvest treatments of lychee fruit as revealed in fruit surface morphology and enzyme activity

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 553, Issue , 2001, Pages 313-315

  Harpaz, Smadar ^a   Goldschmidt, Eliezer E ^a   Gizis, Assia ^b   Vaya, Ya'akov ^c   Ben Arie, Ruth ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Fruit Storage Research Laboratory   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Desiccation; Litchi chinensis Sonn; Micro cracks; Pericarp browning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745565200     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2001.553.77     Document Type: Conference Paper

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