Responses of 'Golden Delicious' apples to 1-MCP applied in air or water

HortScience

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1651-1655

  Argenta, Luiz C ^a,b   Fan, Xuetong ^a,c   Mattheis, James P ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b EMPRESA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA E EXTENSÃO RURAL DE SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Ethylene; Fruit quality; Physiological disorders; Superficial scald

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; CULTIVATION; DISCOLORATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ETHYLENE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CULTIVARS; FRUIT QUALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL DISORDERS; SUPERFICIAL SCALD;

FRUITS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 36549072494     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.42.7.1651     Document Type: Article

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