Energy aspects in ripening and senescence of harvested horticultural crops

Stewart Postharvest Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Jiang, Yueming ^a   Jiang, Yueling ^b   Qu, Hongxia ^a   Duan, Xuewu ^a   Luo, Yunbo ^c   Jiang, Weibo ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy; Handling; Horticultural crops; Lipids; Membrane; Postharvest, ripening; Quality; Reactive oxygen species; Senescence

Indexed keywords

DIANTHUS CARYOPHYLLUS; DIMOCARPUS LONGAN; LITCHI CHINENSIS;

EID: 34248562957     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17459656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2212/spr.2007.2.5     Document Type: Review

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