Physical and physiological factors of ginseng drying

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 571-576

  Martynenko, Alex I ^a   Brown, Ralph B ^a   Davidson, Valerie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drying factors; Drying rate constant; Ginseng drying; Multivariate regression; Physiological effects

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DRYING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DRYING FACTORS; DRYING RATE CONSTANT; GINSENG; GINSENG DRYING; GINSENG ROOTS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PANAX GINSENG;

EID: 33747785607     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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