Defense responses of harvested tomato fruit to burdock fructooligosaccharide, a novel potential elicitor

Postharvest Biology and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 110-116

  Wang, Fengde ^a   Feng, Guihua ^a   Chen, Kaoshan ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Burdock fructooligosaccharide; Defense responses; Elicitor; Postharvest diseases control; Tomato fruit

Indexed keywords

ARCTIUM; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 58849101206     PISSN: 09255214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.postharvbio.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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