Relationship of apple vitamin C and antioxidant contents to harvest date and postharvest pathogen infection

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 802-813

  Davey, Mark W ^a   Auwerkerken, Annemarie ^a   Keulemans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Apple; Ascorbate; Botrytris; Disease resistance; Fruit; Gloeosporium; Glutathione; Malus; Nutritional enhancement; Postharvest storage; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

GLOEOSPORIUM; MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 34147183229     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.2777     Document Type: Article

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