Physico-chemical characteristics and total quality of date palm varieties grown in the southern of Tunisia

Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1003-1008

  Mrabet, Abdessalem ^a   Ferchichi, Ali ^a   Chaira, Nizar ^a   Mohamed, Ben Salah ^a   Baaziz, Mohammed ^b   Penny, Threadgill Mrabet ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES RÉGIONS ARIDES   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^c BASF CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Minerals; Phoenix dactylifera L.; Sugars; Tunisia; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 53749104356     PISSN: 10288880     EISSN: 18125735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2008.1003.1008     Document Type: Article

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