Post-harvest storage effects on guayule latex quality from agronomic trials

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 321-328

  McMahan, C M ^a   Cornish, K ^a   Coffelt, T A ^b   Nakayama, F S ^b   McCoy III, R G ^a   Brichta, J L ^a   Ray, D T ^c  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S WATER CONSERVATION LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Guayule; Latex; Molecular weight; Parthenium argentatum; Shrub storage

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

GUAYULE; PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM; SHRUB STORAGE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CROP PLANT; CROP PROCESSING; STORAGE;

HARVESTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANTS;

PARTHENIUM ARGENTATUM;

AGRONOMY; HARVESTING; LATEX; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; STORAGE;

EID: 33845225689     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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