Mass and volume modelling of tangerine (Citrus reticulate) fruit with some physical attributes

International Agrophysics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 329-334

  Khanali, M ^a   Ghasemi Varnamkhasti, Mahdi Ghasemi ^a   Tabatabaeefar, A ^a   Mobli, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Grading; Mass volume modelling; Physical attributes; Tangerine

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FRUIT; MASS; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

CITRUS; CITRUS RETICULATA;

EID: 38649088601     PISSN: 02368722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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