Keeping quality of tomato fruit by high electrostatic field pretreatment during storage

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 464-470

  Wang, Yu ^a,b   Wang, Baogang ^c   Li, Lite ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

High electrostatic field; Quality; Storage; Tomato

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 38749135512     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.3108     Document Type: Article

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